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Originally Posted by nt300
Will all due respect, what is wrong with running liquid 24/7? I use liquid nitrogen and it great. 
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Originally Posted by trickson
I agree, But this is kind of good in a way. At least they will be able to see how far they can push the silicon and thus may even net us higher speeds for future stuff. Maybe AMD will have us stock 5GHz Chips in another years time, that will clock to 6.5GHz on Air! Now this would be very impressive!
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Originally Posted by anubis44
Why do I have such a nagging feeling that if these were results for an Intel processor, you'd be shouting about how it proves the superiority of Intel's overclocking ability, and how that would apply even for air or liquid coolers, too...
As others have said, this kind of overclocking is done to show the upper limits of the process technology and to push the boundaries to the extreme. Of course nobody is going to run their system on liquid nitrogen on a regular basis - nobody here is saying anything of the kind. But these results do give us some glimpse into the overclockability of this CPU, even using more conventional cooling methods. I just bought a closed loop water cooler for the first time, and I'm very excited to see what the new Vishera chips can do on water now.
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Ya the troll below probably would praise Intel on such a high overclock, probably did it with the 65nm P4 Cedarmill model at the time too. I dont need to say anything more as everyone quoted above has said it for me.
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Originally Posted by No_Asylum
These tests are stupid and pointless. NO ONE uses their PC this way. Show us how high it will overclock with the best air or water cooling available. Not this ridiculous Liquid Nitrogen crap that has zero real world implications.
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go troll elsewhere