The overclocking potential of bloomfield LGA 1366 processors is hard to predict. These processors not only have a sufficiently high TDP level, equal to 130 W, but also are equipped with the built-in memory controller , and also support the Turbo- regime.
All these factors will affect the overclock of core i7 processors . It is known that in this year the elder model bloomfield will operate at 3.2 GHz, and in the second quarter 2009 processor with higher frequency will be released.
Associates cooled the bloomfield processor with liquid nitrogen and report that (-)120 degree celsiuss do not result in any problem (Cold Bug). However, this still does not guarantee, that the processor will work stable at lower temperatures, but usually cold bug appears at the temperatures in the region of minus 100 degree Celsiuses. This experiment used the engineering model Core i7 processor , the motherboard Asus P6T deluxe on base of intel x58 chipset , and also a pair of video card radeon HD 4870 X2.