Intel Core 2 Extreme and Skulltrail Go Pass the 6GHz Barrier, New World Records Set

malware · Apr 19, 2008

Another day, another world record broken. K|ngp|n, well known for his LN2 cooling projects and many previous world records, has become the first man to pass the 6GHz barrier with dual Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors (3.2GHz) and Intel Skulltrail enthusiast gaming platform. Who would of guessed that 8 cores can run at this insane speed? Here are two new wPrime world records as well, 32MB @ 3.450s and 1024M @ 1m 52s respectively. More results here.

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3870x2 · Apr 19, 2008

amazing, wonder what he is going to do with the 8 core processors, and what kind of performance we could get out of that.

DrPepper · Apr 19, 2008

Wow he must get about .... 2 fps on the cpu test in 3dmark :eek:

I wonder how fast he could encode and decode etc

OnBoard · Apr 19, 2008

DrPepper said:
Wow he must get about .... 2 fps on the cpu test in 3dmark

It's capped on 2fps

I even get 2fps for a fraction of a second, but he might get close to 2fps avarage on the first test :twitch:

Wile E · Apr 19, 2008

It's not capped at 2fps. I get 2.44 in the first test, and 3.6 in the second test.

ccleorina · Apr 19, 2008

Damm....

Nice Intel.... :respect:

That the power of V8 Engine.... :rockout:

NU(GFX)T · Apr 19, 2008

Cool!

I see he's warming up for 3DMark Vantage. Skulltrail would be THE top scorer's platform for quite some time since the score scales with +4 cores and there is no alternative atm that performs as good as Skulltrail for 3DMark Vantage benching.

FreedomEclipse · Apr 19, 2008

forget all these benchmark scores - i want REALWORLD benchmarks - try running different games on it like COD4 or Crysis even. unless you have this pc just so u can boot it up in the morning & run the same god damn benchmarks from dawn till dusk just so u "feel good" that you had a stupid amount of time/money to invest getting your CPU(s) to 6Ghz+.....

sometimes theres more to hardware then just super Pi runs

WhiteLotus · Apr 19, 2008

FreedomEclipse said:
forget all these benchmark scores - i want REALWORLD benchmarks - try running different games on it like COD4 or Crysis even. unless you have this pc just so u can boot it up in the morning & run the same god damn benchmarks from dawn till dusk just so u "feel good" that you had a stupid amount of time/money to invest getting your CPU(s) to 6Ghz+.....

sometimes theres more to hardware then just super Pi runs

agreed - there is a limit to how fast you NEED to go.

Triprift · Apr 19, 2008

Still impressive tho and really shows the potential of the hardware.

OnBoard · Apr 19, 2008

Wile E said:
It's not capped at 2fps. I get 2.44 in the first test, and 3.6 in the second test.

Well I didn't make it up, it reads here in page 18-19:

http://www.futuremark.com/companyinfo/pressroom/companypdfs/3DMark06_Whitepaper_v1_0_2.pdf

Surely it's bugged then?

spearman914 · Apr 19, 2008

Now who's gonna pass 7 GHz?

Triprift · Apr 19, 2008

who nos man but i bet it will happen this year and u can quote me on that if im mistaken

WhiteLotus · Apr 19, 2008

pretty much guarantee it trip!

Kreij · Apr 19, 2008

I see his Prime scores were run at 5708MHz and 5590MHz respectively.
Must have been a little flakey at 6006MHz since he didn't use that speed to run the tests. (Yet).

Regardless, that's really impressive.

tkpenalty · Apr 19, 2008

He ditched AMD..........................................................................

WarEagleAU · Apr 19, 2008

Hell Im impressed with this. I dont ever remember reading about AMD CPUs posting world record benchmarks, not saying they ever did. That truly is amazing. Id never need to go that fast but its nice to know you can get close to 3.0ghz bump on both of those procs.

Azazel · Apr 19, 2008

cool...

magibeg · Apr 19, 2008

WhiteLotus said:
agreed - there is a limit to how fast you NEED to go.

That doesn't sound like techpowerup talk at all. You don't NEED a lot of things but i would definately WANT a 6ghz quad core. I suppose you don't NEED more than 640K ram

lemonadesoda · Apr 19, 2008

More info would be great (like superpi and 3dmark06).

This is kingpins website: http://overclockingpin.com/

Nothing there yet. Hopefully he will post soon.

Here is the link to his CPUZ scores: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=346139

Notice that kingpin is only using 2x FBDIMM.

Doh! He missed a trick... FBDIMM on skulltrail goes quad channel... meaning that he would get much higher scores if he populated the baord with 4 sticks not 2 sticks!

DrPepper · Apr 19, 2008

FreedomEclipse said:
I think I my first post should have been....

"Congratulations you now have a PC that can encoded HD DVDs faster then wet sh*t can run down my legs - my life is eternally in debt to you that you saved me from the depths of Hell by waiting 30+ precious minutes (or more/less) to complete 1 encoding. I now present you with a noble peace prize for your efforts contributed to the human race in the name of technology & stupid amounts of money"

I'd second that he must change that rig everytime he doesn't get the desired oc :eek:

strick94u · Apr 19, 2008

6ghz nice

hat · Apr 19, 2008

There's no such water cooling that actually runs through the core except in the new IBM supercomputer. And I've never heard of liquid helium, at least being used for this purpose.

Morgoth · Apr 19, 2008

yes i was talking abouth ibm watercooling
and ibm used it to cool there cpu with liquid helium and the got it to 500ghz

Psychoholic · Apr 19, 2008

Actually i think AMD Broke the WR for 3dmark, back in 2005, with an FX57

EDIT: crap, didnt quote who i wanted to, oh well.

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