Overclockers break 6.7GHz with Intel Penryn

Last friday three overclockers have been able to seperately overclock an Intel Penryn processor past the 6.7 GHz barrier. All three used liquid nitrogen to cool the processor. The voltage, normally about 1.15 Volt, had to be increased to 1.9 V to perform a CPU-Z validation. 

The E8600 CPU-Z worldrecord by Boblemagnifique

  Boblemagnifque and AndreYang reached the clockspeeds with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600, while duck broke the 6.7GHz barrier with an E8500. The results have been posted on the XtremeSystems forum. Many processor-related benchmarks like SuperPi and PiFast are now being broken by highly overclocked Intel Penryn processors in combination with DDR3 memory. The question however is whether or not the overclockers will be able to break 7 GHz, before they break their processors.