Quote Originally Posted by Hell Hound View Post
These fabs you speak of don't expect people to be run chilled water or phase change and if not testing in this scenario then the max for them and consumers is well below ours.Don't forget we are getting All in one phase change systems and a Aio ln2 setup soon.Extreme clocking can be adopted by many more enthusiast when this happens. Also the lunch wasn't free,we spend a lot of time and sometimes finances to get said lunch and a lot of us are hungry like a wolf.
They don't really need to - the relationship between transistor switching speed and temperature is very well-understood. You only need to evaluate the speed at a couple temperature points to be able to extrapolate behavior at any temperature. The silicon will then run optimally at whatever temperature it happens to be at.
True, you could always throw in better cooling and watch the chip clock itself sky-high. But that is also a problem that is solved by simply spending more money.