Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
All that is fine and dandy,but you're forgetting one very important thing:
AMD has no room for that kind of stunts! They would loose A LOT if this is the case.
And honestly i doubt that this demo was a"stunt".AMD has nothing to gain since it would hurt the very much if people fail to reach close to teh claimed clocks.Remember: air cooling =3.9-~4GHz ,wc=4+Ghz,dry ice =5+Ghz,LN2=6+Ghz.
It's simple as that.

PS Intel doing the Ln2 demo after core i7 was long released and just after Deneb LN2 sessions would look a LOT like knee-jerk reaction...
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/11...ed-for-ocing/1

In a ravenously positive post on Theo Valich's blog, formerly of Inquirer and TGDaily fame, he claims that AMD has worked specifically with extreme overclockers for the first time in years to achieve a 45nm design that is claimed to work flawlessly from -200C to +100C!