Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
You are telling me no one tried Core i7 under LN2?
As for the retail Deneb comment,i agree ,we have to wait and see what it will look like in OC department.But what we know from Shanghai,it will be faster than Agena clock for clock,it will consume 40-50% less power and it will OC to near 4Ghz on air while remaining relatively cool.All these attributes make it a potential killer mainstream chip, be it gaming or whatnot.
Oh and it doesn't have cold bug,which means 6+Ghz clocks under LN2 will be seen for sure.
nop, I did not try yet, so, let 's see. High clock demonstration by manufacturer is usually very meaning less, since the list of tricks I can pull to increase the speed is almost illimited. We saw a demo of a 4Ghz barcelona, nobody except AMD ever got there.
I am a very honnest person, so, every body need to understand what I can do ... I can change ratios on the fly, I can unlock parts of the CPU, I can defeature parts of the processors that does not clock well, and everybody who think AMD can not do the same thing is naive
This is why at the end, what matter is to have a curve with at least 4 frequencies to make sure that nothing was defeatured to get to the high clock (When it is manufacturer demo)

For the moment, I will pull a side those tricks and see what I can get with LN2, and to make sure it is true, I ll do it with a famous OC master , then, I ll pull my tricks ...
Stay tunes ! fun is coming!