Intel Nehalem clocked at 4.1GHz

Though the new Nehalem processors won't be available until the fourth quarter of this year, the first engineering samples have already been shipped to the overclockers. The overclocking capabilities of this new architecture can be seen on a screenshot posted by Fudzilla, showing a 2.93 GHz Bloomfield processor running at a frequency of 4.11 GHz. The overclock was reached with aircooling and a 1.576 Volt core voltage. 

To reach this clockspeed, the processor's multiplier was increased to 31x. The standard 2.93 GHz is reached with a 22x multiplier. As the CPU-Z screenshot shows, the processor features four cores and is able to process eight treads simultaneously by using Hyperthreading. Nehalem shows quite some similarities to AMD's Phenom when it comes to the cache: the 2.93 GHz Bloomfield has a 256 kb L2 cache for each individual core and another 8MB shared L3 cache memory.

Image source: Fudzilla

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