ShaggySVK hits 5461MHz on Xeon W3520, takes silver in chip leaderboard

Slovak overclocker ShaggySVK has secured second place in the model ranking for the youngest 8-thread Xeon processor in the LGA 1366 lineup.

The Intel Xeon W3520 processor was cooled with liquid nitrogen and pushed to a remarkable 5461 MHz—a 105.30% increase over its stock speed, especially impressive for a 45nm Bloomfield core. This allowed the enthusiast to complete the SuperPi - 1M benchmark with a time of 7 seconds, 359 milliseconds:

Meanwhile, the top spot has been held for two years by German overclocker ground, who achieved 7 seconds, 141 milliseconds with an insane W3520 overclock of 5628.8 MHz.

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The overclocker's test bench included the following components:

• Motherboard: ASUS Maximus III Formula;

• RAM: CORSAIR Dominator GT;

The benchmark session itself looked like this:

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By the way, our website already features a quick review of the Xeon W3520 chip, along with a comparison against the Xeon E5440 processor. If you're interested in the aforementioned CPU's performance at stock speeds, we recommend checking out that material.

Source: Result page on the HWBot website