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An AMD Phenom II X4 955, a quad-core with a 3.2GHz stock speed, has set a new record for current-generation CPU overclocking at 7.1GHz using liquid nitrogen. The current record for Intel's Core i7 is only 5.6GHz, that being with an unreleased engineering sample.