Intel's Skulltrail QX9775 hits 6GHz, manages not to spontaneously combust

Yeah, we've seen other mad scientists take way more antiquated chips to higher figures on the GHz scale, but can that cryogenically cooled P4 handle all those SSE4.1 instructions? The latest feat of overclocking prowess comes to us courtesy of K|ngp|n, who has apparently taken Skulltrail beyond the 6GHz mark. You'll also notice the 1,716MHz FSB (!!!) and the fact that it's sizzling along at 1.953-volts -- but hey, no one said running Crysis would be easy, right?

[Via The Inquirer]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2008 4:51PM]

BOOOOOMMMM....is that good enough??

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2008 4:53PM]

that was soupoosed to be to sime

[wesg Posted Apr 18th 2008 4:55PM]

*insert witty Futurama quote here.

[The Fuzz 53 Posted Apr 18th 2008 5:04PM]

"I am Bender. Please insert girder."

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2008 6:17PM]

*insert *insert comment here comment here

That took me a while to get the syntax right (if it even is now)...

[CMA Posted Apr 18th 2008 5:07PM]

exciting....

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2008 6:18PM]

Weaksauce FSB... I've ran mine @ 2140mhz with my E6300. And they're saying it's amazing to get to 1716mhz? Come on...

The real amazement is the sheer clockspeed of the CPU though. First quad to clock that high that I've ever heard of.

[bruckwine Posted Apr 18th 2008 5:45PM]

Well thank goodness for that, no spontaneous combustion..just what I want in a product :|

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 20th 2008 4:51PM]

damn. i want that. my processor is only 2.7GHz T-T

[deciBels Posted Apr 18th 2008 7:33PM]

Did it run through any stress testing at all or no?

[ToniCipriani Posted Apr 18th 2008 8:56PM]

Return of the First Law of Megahurts Madness...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 18th 2008 10:17PM]

I can see them paying for the electric bill by letting people stand close to it to get a tan!
The exhaust fans would probably work as a convection oven!
Heh-Heh

Hats off to k|ngp|n and friends,.....

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 19th 2008 12:17PM]

"I'm sorry but do you notice a HUGE difference COD4 and Crysis? My 8800GT(1GB version) gets more than 90FPS in COD4 with everything maxed out at 1600x1200. I doubt I would get anything close to that in Crysis.


It's just a badly coded game. Sure it looks better, but the performance hit it takes relative to other games is just not acceptable seeing as it's only marginally better looking."

The physics/lighting/scale/particle/smoke effects in Crysis are so far and above anything COD4 is doing, it makes me wonder if you are only thinking about textures. Which are also better. And I love COD4, but come on. BTW, your 1 gigabyte 8800GT vs a 512 makes the truly marginal difference.

[Abuzar Posted Apr 19th 2008 11:03PM]

Eh, I know it makes a marginal difference but it overclocks pretty well and when I turn up the resolution it does start to make a difference. Plus it's future proof as more and more games use more and more VRAM.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 19th 2008 1:51PM]

That's wonderful news! Now not only can they watch movies and play Crysis but now they can make popcorn too at the same time! Oh my how technology advances....

[Chris8pie Posted Apr 20th 2008 10:09PM]

Add in quad sli 9800GX2 and break every benchmark available (if it can last that long without frying but it probably can't)

[oldmanhorton Posted May 26th 2008 4:08PM]

Oh, all of you people and you fancy proccesors
Try an AMD Athlon at 2.2 GHz that overclocks to a whopping total of 2.3 GHz and has a hard time running SimCity 4

Dont you love HP/-)