Core i7 990X Extreme specifications and release date

The next extreme CPU from intel will be avalble in the market in september 2010 the  six-core Core i7-990X Extreme Edition processor will replace the current 999 dollar-priced and 3.33 GHz clock speed the 980X Core i7 Extreme Edition, 

the Core i7-990X Extreme Edition runs on standard 3.46 GHz clock speed and when the Turbo Boost technology is lunched the cores will run @ frequencies of 3.6 GHz. Hyper-Threading feature allows the operating system will see 12 cores, with 12 MB of L3 cache and TDP-value is likely to be 130 watts.

when we talk about the over clocking you should have no problems in clocking this processor past 4.5GHz on air, and 5GHz on water should be granted.