Overclockers push 8-core Skulltrail to 6 GHz

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/19/2008 11:13 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Overclocking with advanced air-cooling can take Intels Skulltrail platform from 3.2 GHz to 4 GHz pretty easily, even our review showed that. Now, 4.5 GHz is manageable with a modest water-cooling system. Not surprisingly, there is a lot more capability in this platform if take an extreme Skulltrail a bit more extreme.

According to a forum post on XtremeSystems, an overclocking community sites,

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