[Russianhaxor]

I think that this goal may be the golden egg that Intel was trying to lay in order to make AMD's overclocking efforts appear to be unimportant.

During Computex Taipei 2009, Intel's Sean Malone took his Keynote Speaker role very seriously: the "Desktop Is Not Dead" statement was supported by a slew of very impactful machines, some of which I'll elaborate on here in detail.
Core i7 "1105" - 5.07 GHz!
Intel Core i7 975 processor clocked to 5.07 GHz using nothing else but a specially designed air cooler.



This is the fastest ever air cooled processor in the history of the IT industry: If you take the 133 MHz QPI base clock and multiply it 38 times, a nice lucky number in Chinese, you'll get a whopping 5.07 GHz. Eh, that's how fast the show demo Acer's gaming box ran, all air-cooled. Of course, do not expect Intel's default el cheapo air cooling unit, but rather a very expensive Intel Labs setup by Mr. Francois Piednoel, Intel Performance Guru. Still, even with Intel-assisted air cooling design the sheer speed and reasonable voltage needed [no it wasn't the 1.07 Volts shown, but more like 1.5 Volts, a recommended OC maximum by the French Wizard himself] was impressive nevertheless.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...-507-ghz!.aspx