Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2

Re:Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2 by loser777 on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @12:53PM (#9930792)

For reference, here's what the current (CPU-Z validated) OC records look like: http://valid.canardpc.com/records.php (it's pretty safe to assume most of these used LN2 as well)

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Re:Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2 by PebblesHD on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @10:05PM (#9933587)

How, under the current laws of physics, did someone manage to squeeze 8500MHz out of a Celeron D????

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Re:Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2 by dmishe on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @11:14PM (#9933774)

It's based on Pentium 4 core which was extremely overclock-able, plus it's a single core, which makes it easier to get to that stable enough for a screenshot state.

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Re:Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2 by Gladdyu on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @01:54PM (#9931186)

It's too bad they haven't included actual performance comparisons. The Celeron (from '06) running at ~8GHz will most definitely be outperformed by any modern i7 running at stock speeds.

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Re:Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2 by Eiriksmal on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @03:07PM (#9931642)

In what kinds of tasks? Single-thread performance has increased very slowly since the Core 2 Duo era. 8GHz is blazing-fast, even for an "old" processor.

eg. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1335

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Re:Intel Skylake sample breaks 6.5GHz mark on LN2 by zokier on Thursday July 23, 2015 @05:36AM (#9934759)

I would put my money on the i7: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1260?vs=93

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