"Highest clock frequency." Not "fastest processor." I am correcting the article. I like the headline's "clockiest" description.
Edit: surely I did not mean "cloak"
Nit-pick: That's "clock", not "cloak".
I'm sort of surprised nobody has tried to clock a Power6 chip that high, given that you can buy ones set to 5GHz at the factory. Maybe they have less clock regulation features that help with stuff like this?
I don't think IBM targets the enthusiast crowd with the Power6, so there are not as many knobs. I don't even know if windows supports Power6, which is standard platform for hardware enthusiasts.
We have certainly overclocked Power6 (and 7) in the lab, but it would be pretty much impossible for a customer to do it. I don't think we ever set up a LN2 rig, though.
I too feel it's worthless to simply 'boot up' with those frequencies. The whole point is to do _something_ with all that speed, like benchmarking, gaming, folding performance...
Where did you read that? The article would seem to imply it was an eight-core chip they were working with.