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Symmetry
I'm sort of surprised nobody has tried to clock a Power6 chip that high, given that you can buy ones set to 5GHz at the factory. Maybe they have less clock regulation features that help with stuff like this?
simpsond
I don't think IBM targets the enthusiast crowd with the Power6, so there are not as many knobs. I don't even know if windows supports Power6, which is standard platform for hardware enthusiasts.
wmf
We have certainly overclocked Power6 (and 7) in the lab, but it would be pretty much impossible for a customer to do it. I don't think we ever set up a LN2 rig, though.
delinka
"Highest clock frequency." Not "fastest processor." I am correcting the article. I like the headline's "clockiest" description.

Edit: surely I did not mean "cloak"

unwind
Nit-pick: That's "clock", not "cloak".
cultureulterior
2 cores only, which I feel is cheating.
loungin
I too feel it's worthless to simply 'boot up' with those frequencies. The whole point is to do _something_ with all that speed, like benchmarking, gaming, folding performance...
cpeterso
The article says they "clocked a prerelease eight-core AMD FX desktop processor to a zippy 8.429GHz".
technogeek00
It seems like clock speed is no longer the race in the cpu world, though correct me if im wrong.