Intel's Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 overclocked to 5.5GHz
By Darren Murph 
posted December 3rd 2008 8:59AM
posted December 3rd 2008 8:59AM
posted December 3rd 2008 8:59AM
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Is that good?
the gods themselves weep with joy.
very. that's over 2ghz above the stock clock speed.
@Anus.....you failed grade 2 math, didn't you?
Yeah, I'd trust the article and the CPU-Z picture which says 3.2Ghz as stock speed instead of engadget. Anus is completely right, its about a 2.3Ghz overclock.
I think I just came a little bit
Extreme Editions are scams. My Q9450 at 3.6 demolishes the 965 at stock.
Why does Engadget of all sites question the act of overclocking to the limit? Unless is was a rhetorical question?
Anyway! I love overclocking and I love absolutely crazy overclocks!!! Good work sir! we salute you!
@ loujob
A little bit? Dude, one word...
Buckets.
@Kurian
"Extreme Editions are scams. My Q9450 at 3.6 demolishes the 965 at stock."
No, you're an ass. Saying that your CPU at an OC'd speed 'demolishes' another left stock is like saying your Ford is going faster at 90mph than a Ferrari is when it's doing 70. If you have the metaphorical Ferrari - a 965 - you can do a metaphorical 200mph when you OC it. For sure, yours was cheaper, but it ain't 'quicker' and it ain't demolishing...
I guess the Extreme 965 isn't so badly priced when you consider they are also using 3x280GTX boards. Still an interesting feat, too bad they didn't list voltage or cooling method used to reach those speeds. However I'm sure they are using some pretty high end methods as the same person got a P4 631 to 8180.4MHz.
in Japan, you can walk into the store and buy dry ice
I have my i7 920 2.66 overclocked to 4.2 GHz and I have no idea what im doing. I have a asus p6t deluxed motherboard and a coolermaster v8 heatsink. This was my first computer i have built. All i did was change the base clock speed and left everything else on auto. The i7 920 is good enough. No need to spend all that money on the 965 thats just rediculous.
Haha that's awesome. Have you run any stress tests to see whether it's 100% stable? Because if you have, and it's stable, that's even more impressive.
Don't be a hater Dan!!! Just you cannot afford it ths Top Shelf chipset/cpu combo, you have no right to say its not worth it for me or my brethren to be thrilled enough to go out and ultimately purchase this rig or a rig like it. "I bought the ZO6 Corvette because I wanted it, not because its only a blink of an eye faster to 60 than your standard garden variety Corvette."
The first PC you built has an I7...
The first PC i built had a pentium 2 and 128mb RAM....
Run Prime95 v25.6 for a few hours. Remember to check "round off checking" under advanced....
First Build Pentium... HA!
My first build
486DX2 at a whopping 66Mhz Clock Speed...
I could play trade wars on a BBS at a blazing 14.4Kbps.
"First Build Pentium... HA!
My first build
486DX2 at a whopping 66Mhz Clock Speed...
I could play trade wars on a BBS at a blazing 14.4Kbps."
Mine was a 486 as well! man i thought i was cool with my 500mb hard drive and 16mb ATI, soundblaster and 32 megs of ram. I could run windows 95 and make mspaint my bitch. xD
O_o. Just O_o.
I'm all O_O.
At first I was like -_-.
And the I was like ^_^.
Is there anyway to make and O_O with drool? coz that would be me.
I have a CPU question.
HP sells in its laptops Intel chips that start with T (such as T5800) and P (such as P7350)
My question is what is the difference between T and P?
Also when will these I7's hit the mainstream laptop market?
T5800
http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.aspx?ParentRadio=All&ProcFam=0&SearchKey=T5800
P7350
http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.aspx?ParentRadio=All&ProcFam=0&SearchKey=P7350
Same clock speed, but the P7350 is a newer 45nm and has a higher FSB.
Any other models to check out just put in the model number in the box at the bottom.
http://processorfinder.intel.com/Default.aspx
Ts have higher TDP (Thermal Design Power) than Ps.
For example, T9500's TDP is 35w P9600's TDP is 25w
Never heard about i7's laptop market, I think next generation will be Qxxxx
I think I remember reading somewhere that the laptop version of the i7 wouldn't be out until 2nd half 2009
one of them uses less power or something.
These guy will do anything to prove just that they can...
... And that's not necessarily bad. At least we know that's a good piece of hardware we're speding hundreds of dollars on.
But seriously.. which cooling did they use??
I wonder how he was able to keep this rig cooled enough to OC it THAT much. Must have been some sort of water cooling setup, or maybe liquid nitrogen. I want to find out how he did his (not that I can afford this nor have the skills to OC a cpu THAT much)
yeah i bet the rig looks hideous, some sort of Frankenstein case with pipes and whatnot flying all over the whonow...
Does it calculate prime numbers with ease and stability?
At 5.5GHz, prime numbers calculate you.
His *middle* name is "Duck".
Holy hell, they could travel to the moon with that speed
Mars even
maaaan, i can't believe i haven't read a 'yes, but can it run crysis?' comment yet
*rejoice*
A tear is running down my face right now...
It is a happy day for Engadget. Happy day indeed.
can it run crysis?
Need for speed
Yeah, I'd trust the article and the CPU-Z picture which says 3.2Ghz as stock speed instead of engadget. Anus is completely right, its about a 2.3Ghz overclock.
Aaand ignore that.. it was supposed to be a reply to the first comment, in that sequence. I can't really blame engadget's system as I really did forget to hit reply the second time around (I re-wrote my comment). damn.
he's using liquid nitrogen. You throw the fan and heat sink off make a coustom built copper tube about a 10inchs big and attach it to the processor, and liquid nitrogen can actually freeze your processor and other components but if used correctly doesn't. And lastly it's not the most cheapest method of cooling as you have to constantly have to add more of it
Damn.
I have to wonder what it would actually be like to use a computer with the i7 965 at 5.5GHz. I suppose you'd run into other bottlenecks before you hit the CPU's performance ceiling. Still, I'd love to see some benchmarks of something like this.
A quad over 5ghz usually results in the computer becoming self aware.
Looks like John Connor failed.
Can't wait till these babies are more affordable... my quest to build a computer with twice the power of my current on is nigh!
why not just build a crummy rig, say its your computer then double the power for a pittance?
MAH BOY. I already have a crummy rig. I'd HAVE to buy a new motherboard and new everything if I wanted to upgrade it.
*drool* i wish i could afford to get that hardware and try it myself...