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AMD Breaks Overclocking Record With Bulldozer

Posted by timothy on from the overkill-kill-kill-kill dept.

MojoKid writes "AMD recently held a press event at their Austin headquarters, offering hands on time with the company's upcoming Bulldozer-based FX-line of processors. Many of the details disclosed are still under NDA embargo, but AMD is allowing a sneak peek today to go along with a claimed Guinness World Record announcement. A team of overclocking enthusiasts and AMD engineers had a sampling of early AMD FX processors running at around 5GHz with high-end air and water-cooling, in the 6GHz range with phase-change cooling, and well over 8GHz on liquid-nitrogen and liquid-helium setups. Voltages of over 1.9v were used as well for some of the more extreme tests. The team had access to dozens of early FX processors and methodically worked through a batch of chips until ultimately hitting a peak of 8.429GHz using liquid-helium, breaking the previous world record of 8.309GHz for modern processor frequency." Update: 09/13 13:54 GMT by T : Adds user Vigile: PC Perspective was there and took some photos and video of the event.

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  1. Distraction. by Zeek40 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is AMD hoping this impractical PR stunt will distract us from the fact that their chips have been lagging behind Intel's for the past two years?

    1. Re:Distraction. by wye43 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Because your "needs" are clearly defined and measurable, right?
      You need your Notepad to open up between precisely 200 and 400 ms. In no way you could use a blazzing 15ms loading time, or you could settle for a lousy 450ms. RIGHT?

      Not that processor speed is the most influential on loading time of a program, but you get the picture. Most of the users don't have a precise measurement for what they "need". And my most I mean pretty much mean ALL personal users, including myself.

      Please stop with "this is WAY too much processing power, its overkill" lines. Its getting boring, and we all know you crave it too, you just down-rate what you can't have. Its hypocrisy. Any stupid little user on this planet could have a very nice use for a 1 Petahertz processor, or more.