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Overclock world record: Q6600 2.4GHz run at 5.1GHz

What a ridiculous project! But how awesome would it be to be the hardcore system building nerds they asked to do this? A couple months ago, a French Tom’s Hardware-related superteam got together to overclock an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz as far as ... ...full story at digg

from digg on Thu, Jul 31 2008

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