For too long have we lusted after incredibly high overclocks without the need for extreme cooling, and Core i7 has done that for a decent while, but now it does a whole lot more.
The Nehalem 975 chip is a cherry-picked CPU, the best of an already great processor that is guaranteed to clock well at stock levels, but when overclocking these babies you've an excellent chance of reaching the limits of the architecture.
Thanks to the intrepid folks over at XtremeSystems this has been done - they reached just over 5GHz on only a Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme 1366 cooler! More at; http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/143515,core-i7-975-chip-hits-over-5ghz-on-air-cooling.aspx & http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=553302
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