A new overclocking achievement was unlocked over the weekend, as a European crew was able to push a hand-picked Phenom II 955 Black Edition AMD CPU to 7000 MHz. This is the first quad-core to break the 7 GHz mark.

The overclocking event was organized by AMD, and held in Pirkkahalli, which is someplace in Finland. Besides drinking, hanging out in saunas, and going to nightclubs, the overclockers found time to use the combination of liquid heluim and liquid nitrogen to cool things down with DFI LanParty motherboards. For those of you who don't follow overclocking very much, liquid helium is sort of the new liquid nitrogen when it comes to cooling, being able to push things down to the valkyrie-freezing point of below -230 Celsuis.

Some random Finns.

Overclocker Pieter-Jan "Massman" Plaisir was the one who landed the big score, with some help of his buddies.