Great results, good work Fugger & Francois, that must have been a fun weekend.

I don't understand why there are so many people complaining that CPU's of this caliber may not be available commonly in retail. Not many people even push CPU's that hard, it's as if those upset by this feel like they have been prevented from attaining something that they neither have the skill nor inclination to do anyway. There are comparatively few people here who really push hardware to the limits either on air, water or extreme cooling. Those that do have the ability, finances and contacts that enable them to find and use the best CPU's available anyway. Some people already have contacts at Intel which enable them to get cherry picked ES CPU's - this has been happening forever, it's nothing new at all.

World records have always been set with specially picked CPU's capable of clocks above what most can achieve, this is just taking that to a slightly higher level, as Intel themselves picked the chips in question. If these CPU's were not going to be 920's/940's or 965's, but perhaps an as yet unreleased version (eg 975's) there is nothing wrong with that, in time CPU's of higher spec will most likely be released if yields are sufficient, and people can try and find the best ones by the same means they have already employed to find the best 775's and already released i7's.

This was demo to show the theoretical maximum achievable from this architecture, using CPU's selected by employing a binning process no one but intel has the ability to do, and as such is not a reflection of what most people can expect from retail samples. This is the nature of a manufacturer demo. Francois made this clear.