Advanced Micro Device's upcoming Phenom II X4 processor keeps on surprising us these days with its overclocking capabilities. Only a few days ago it was reported to enter POST while clocked over 5GHz; this time we learn that it has managed to reach 6.3GHz while remaining stable. It seems that the company wanted to keep this number unofficial, and asked people to change it to “more than 5GHz”.

The latest news on the Web shows that the upcoming Deneb chip is at least capable of delivering speeds close to 6GHz, if not surpassing that barrier. No information regarding the system used to test the speed has been published or anything on the cooling solution used, yet it appears that some people managed to make it work quite stable at 5920MHz. Even so, the chip is capable of amazing speeds, out pacing even Intel's Core i7, which is known to have been pushed to 5.3GHz.
 

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