14 DAY TRIAL // Although Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture promises to bring forth a great number of improvements as well as increased performance, there's one area where Intel decided to be more conservative than before, namely overclocking, although the latest reports still suggest that Sandy Bridge can reach an impressive 5GHz by using air cooling alone.
Judging by the picture brought to our attention by the expreview.com website, this result was achieved by using a K series Sandy Bridge CPU, these processors coming in with unlocked multipliers.
As a result they are able to reach higher overclocks, the chip used being run with a 50x multiplier at a really low 1.08V core voltage.
Although not so many details are available regarding the processor used, the overclocker managed to reach an impressive 5GHz clock speed by using nothing more than a regular air cooler.
As you probably know by now, all Sandy Bridge CPUs will come with a locked clock generator, not allowing overclockers to change the base clock (BLCK) frequency of the CPUs, limiting overclocking to a great extent.
Is this why Intel decided to build the K series of CPUs that come with an unlocked multiplier, catering to enthusiast users that want to get all they can out of their computers, overclocking being usually involved in this process.
Since 5GHz on air is more than a decent result, Intel K-series apparently comes as a nice option for overclockers, users that don't want any sort of overclocking limitations having to wait for the Sandy Bridge E architecture that presumably will come with unlocked BLCK adjustment.
This latest result to reach us comes just after we published a news about a Chinese website posting the very first review of Sandy Bridge, the author of that review managing to hit 4.7GHz on air with an 2600K processor.
