PCPER.com: 5 GHZ+ Phenom II Overclock on Dry Ice, 6Ghz on LN2

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Search for the Foxconn A79A-S or the ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe.

Does a high price automatically mean a top-end board then? DFI Lanparty DK 790FXB-M2RS, very cheap and just as good

The stead march toward higher and higher clockspeed has reached a fundamental limit above and beyond the power wall. The ability to clock a device 'faster' depends on more than just the max power. A transistor can only clock as fast as it's ability to 'turn on', a group of transistors can only clock as fast as the ability for the cumulative circuit to reach the correct evaluation phase of the 'on' or 'off' state, again by flipping transistor states.

The steady march to more clock as asymptotically approached a flat line, with smaller and smaller incremental increases one lithography node to the next. This is driven in part by smaller gains in transistor performance each iteration, and also driven by added complexity of the circuit design (architecture/IPC).

Jack

So... due to C2's improved IPC and more complex architecture this would actually be impossible? But then again, ain't a P4 more complex than its previous Pentiums as well? I dont know, it's a question

the dragon is so cool! way better than spider:

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Whoa, looks damn nice! Also looks a bit like Ati Radeon pictures on the box