14 DAY TRIAL // Intel's Core i7 processors are registering a good penetration of the market these days, as they bring a lot of performance improvements over existing parts, and users are looking closer and closer at the capabilities of the new chips. Some of them are looking so close that take the CPU and try to make it give its best. According to the latest news on the web, a user managed to overclock one of the processors up to the world record speed of 5510.09 MHz.
As the news states, the processor was paired with an ASUS ROG Rampage II motherboard, and the OC was performed by the same guy that leveraged the speed of an Intel Pentium 4 631 chip up to 8140.4 MHz last year. The ASUS motherboard features small buttons that enable real-time hardware adjustments, which are said to have proved helpful in this guy's attempt. Perhaps the capabilities of the motherboard helped a lot, but the speed still makes the Core i7 quite an impressively fast processor.
Intel's Nehalem-based CPUs have been subjected to a lot of performance tests as soon as they made it to the market and even before that, following the aggressive marketing strategies the chip manufacturer implemented for the architecture. Overclocking tests have proved successful many times, as proof of the quality of the new parts released by the company.
Even so, as we reported last week, AMD's upcoming Deneb processors, dubbed Phenom II, seem to feature greater overclocking capabilities. The chip has been said to be able to reach 6.3GHz, although the company appears to have preferred calling it “goes over 5GHz,” which means that the 6.3GHz speed is not official. At the same time, it was said that the actual speed the chip reached was under 6GHz but very close to it (5950MHz). For what it’s worth, Deneb might prove a better overclocker than Core i7, and that would mean AMD has made a jump forward, not a single step.