14 DAY TRIAL // Overclocking feats are always interesting to read about, especially when they involve so much liquid nitrogen that a thick layer of ice sets over the entire test bench. And that definitely happened to the system tried out by one L0ud_sil3nc3.
The American overclocker created a computer based on the dual-core Intel Xeon X5698, and managed to overclock it to 6162 MHz.
It only scores 5.3 points in CineBench R11.5, despite of that, but the clock is still the highest ever achieved for dual-core CPUs, or so the claim goes.
Considering that the base clock is of 4400 MHz, that's a significant leap any day.
The overclocker L0ud_sil3nc3 also ran the wPrime 32M and the HWBot Prime Benchmarks, prompting the chip to rise to 64262.65 MHz. So, on average, the chip ran at around 6.2 GHz.
For us normal folks, these overclocking runs won't do much, but they do work as brownie points for the x86 Intel processor architecture. Just the fact that it was possible shows that the chips have good endurance and performance potential.
For those who want to know the specs of the Xeon X5698 CPU, here they are: two cores, 4 threads, 4.4 GHz clock speed, LGA 1366 socket, 12 MB L3 cache and 130W TDP (thermal design power).