Soleron on 04 May 2009
| nordlead said: ok, so with this liquid nitrogen cooling, do we still expect the chip to last 5 years or more? If not, I don't give a rip. Heck, even if it did, I still don't care too much until cooling becomes reasonable for home users. |
Of course not. This is just stupid levels of OC. Current high-end AMD and Intel chips can run reasonably at about 3.8GHz with the stock cooler for normal operation. Beyond that is not guaranteed.
All the 7.1GHz figure indicates is that, with continual process refinements, desktop chips still have considerable headroom. It's not unreasonable to expect a 3.5GHz Phenom II by the end of the year. All that means is that AMD won't go bankrupt.
