What is the fastest a current, commercially available CPU can be overclocked?

Question

Is 10+ ghz even theoretically possible with a freezing cooler? I would think that there would be a much lower threshold because of other limiting factors if heat was removed from the equation, but my friend insists it is possible to reach 12ghz with a current, commercially available CPU.

Just to clarify, lets say we're overclocking an Intel Core 2 Duo at a base of 2.4ghz with 4mb cache and 1066mhz FSB, as the new Intels seem to be faster than the current AMDs.

Answer 1

i think this is implausible.. the current world record is 5.7632Ghz on a intel core 2 duo E6300. that used compressed nitrous oxide and liquid nitrogen to cool the cpu and the north bridge.

seeing as we've hit a wall with clock speed and only option for right now is to increase other areas and add more cores.

if you cool a cpu and not have it explode there is a tempature where there isn't a resistance. but you need gigawatts of power to do this to a piece of copper. and thats just farking science.

in short no. no it is not possible...yet.

Answer 2

Hi. I overclock with liquid cooling but have never heard of a CPU that fast, yet. I'll send a link if I find one. Looks like somewhere around 4-5 GHz may be the current limit. http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/cpuoverclocking/index.html

Answer 3

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