Since today is the Intel Skulltrail day, we can see a lot of previews/reviews of this new dual four-core beast, otherwise known as Intel's pride and honor. But only one man went as far as 5.5GHz, Fugger from XtremeSystems. With a little help from K|ngp|n's F1 cooling system, which is actually an LN2 pod, Fugger managed to push this beast's heart all the way up to 5.5GHz. You can check out the CPU-Z screenshot here.

Since Intel's Skulltrail is Socket 771 with LGA 775 mounting holes, Fugger had the chance to put dual F1's on Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors. This allowed him to push those two from 3.2GHz all the way to 5586.35 MHz, or 399.03 x 14 setting. This looks like a great score.

Our colleagues from PCGamesHardware have tested their Skulltrail system, making it do Cinebench and Futuremark's PCMark. You can check out those scores here. Since the NDA has been officially lifted, you can find additional reviews on various sites and here are some of them:

Guru3D,
Techgage,
The Tech Report,
HardOCP Enthusiast,
HotHardware.



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