The score was attained on a DFI LP UT790FXB-M3eH motherboard with digital PWM. The CPU used was a cherry picked high leakage sample. There were a few TWKR CPUs at the event as well, and some of the participants claim that the difference between TWKR parts and cherry picked 955s isn't too big.

AMD Phenom II 42

TWKR Black Edition

Not for Sale

Word on the street is that these chips have started to ship to their select few recipients.

I had a blast visiting AMD's Austin campus and burning up nitrogen and silicon for them. Judging by how successful the event was and the fact that K|ngp|n was so very close to 7GHz, I wouldn't be surprised if a similar event occurred in the near future. I'd like to once again thank all the individuals I met at AMD, you guys were a great group of people.

That is where it gets the most exciting. As I said earlier, liquid helium is much colder than liquid nitrogen. As a matter of fact, approximately one liter of that stuff is consumed in one minute. So that means you must have quite a large supply to be able to bench for just a few hours.