Socketed Broadwell CPU spotted at 5GHz on air
 

The unlocked Broadwell desktop processors due mid-year could turn out to be potent overclockers. According to a report at EXPreview, at least one chip circulating in Asia is capable of 5GHz on air. That frequency is higher than what we've managed with our Haswell CPUs, including the most recent Devil's Canyon chips. Only 1.42V was apparently required to hit the mark.

All the actual overclocking was done by Hong Kong site HKEPC, which posted a series of images to its Facebook page showing a purported Core i7-5775C processor running in Gigabyte and ASRock motherboards. That photo stream includes a handful of benchmark and CPU-Z shots, but ...

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