14 DAY TRIAL // I've already covered pretty much every shred of information that exists in circulation right now on the Devil's Canyon CPUs. There is one thing that I didn't fully appreciate though.
More specifically, I didn't really realize the implications of a chip capable of reaching 4.4 GHz on the power of Turbo Boost alone.
You see, the upcoming central processing unit, with its 88W TDP, 8 MB L3 cache memory and 4 GHz / 4.4 GHz clocks, can probably be overclocked to 5 GHz without even changing the cooler.
Well, maybe you will need to buy a better air cooler, but that's the thing: until now, it was impossible to force a CPU to that speed without a liquid cooling system or liquid nitrogen baths.
Or it was really hard and likely to make your chip burn out or melt in short order.
The folks at Expreview believe the 5 GHz air-based overclocking is now possible, and that makes me wonder just how ludicrously high the performance can be pushed with liquid cooling help.
No doubt, we'll get the answer to that question just weeks after the processors come out this summer. These things tend to happen really fast, and there are already a whole bunch of 9-Series motherboards out, or at least on the way.