It was Team Italy who first broke the 8GHz barrier with their golden P4 which went on to achieve speeds of 8180MHz. Today, they're still hard at work - and who'd blame them as they now have upped the anti to 8320MHz (520x16).

The final result was achieved with a 'Cedar Mill' based P4 641, mounted to a Gigabyte P35-DQ6 motherboard. If they hadn't run out of liquid nitrogen, who would have guessed what results they could have gone on to achieving. Throughout testing the CPU's temperature was -170C and had a voltage of 1.95v.

We're as excited as you are to see what numbers they achieve next.