Tuesday, September 13th 2011
AMD FX Sets Guinness Record for Clock Speed
Weeks ahead of its market launch, AMD pulled off a nice PR feat by setting making its trusty squad of overclockers, Sami Mäkinen, Brian Mclachlan, Pete Hardman, and Aaron Schradin set a new clock speed world record (as in Guinness World Record). With just one of its four modules enabled, the eight-core FX-8150 engineering sample was overclocked to a stunning 8429.38 MHz. The chip was able to tolerate a brutal core voltage of 2.016V. Even for a one-in-a-million cherry-picked chip, those are staggering numbers.
8429.38 MHz was achieved using a base clock of 271.92 MHz, with 31.0X multiplier. The memory used was a Corsair Dominator GT single module, which apparently tolerated 3:10 DRAM ratio and timings of 2-16-2-22. That's right, 2-16-2-22. ASUS Crosshair V Formula seated the platform. Cooling was care of a custom liquid-nitrogen evaporator setup. The team used liquid nitrogen as its cooling medium, and switched to liquid helium halfway, which has a lower boiling point. The team cherry-picked chips from the best lots on-site.
A video of the feat follows.
This feat was more of a hit-and-run, in which the system could run at the desired frequency stable enough to make a CPU-Z validation, no proper stability testing was done. AMD claims that frequencies over 5.00 GHz were possible using sub-$100 cooling solutions (now that can be anything between a high-end heatsink and a cheap closed-loop liquid cooler). AMD did a similar overclocking feat ahead of its Phenom II processor launch.
Source:
Overclockers.com
8429.38 MHz was achieved using a base clock of 271.92 MHz, with 31.0X multiplier. The memory used was a Corsair Dominator GT single module, which apparently tolerated 3:10 DRAM ratio and timings of 2-16-2-22. That's right, 2-16-2-22. ASUS Crosshair V Formula seated the platform. Cooling was care of a custom liquid-nitrogen evaporator setup. The team used liquid nitrogen as its cooling medium, and switched to liquid helium halfway, which has a lower boiling point. The team cherry-picked chips from the best lots on-site.
This feat was more of a hit-and-run, in which the system could run at the desired frequency stable enough to make a CPU-Z validation, no proper stability testing was done. AMD claims that frequencies over 5.00 GHz were possible using sub-$100 cooling solutions (now that can be anything between a high-end heatsink and a cheap closed-loop liquid cooler). AMD did a similar overclocking feat ahead of its Phenom II processor launch.
225 Comments on AMD FX Sets Guinness Record for Clock Speed
i'm rocking a Q9550 @ 4.1 and itching for an upgrade. i've never owned AMD and would like to support the underdog this time around.
It's like AMD is mad that INtel has some attnetion, as is screaming for everyone to look at them. Um, really?
Of course, beucase it's Simon, I expect as much, but I so hopes he grows up soon. He's agressive at times, for sure, but oh so much about the wrong things.I don't evne care how close to Intel BD is. it REALLY REALLY doesn't matter.
I mean, you could say now, that BD sucks, and because they cannot beat them in performance, they had to beat them in clockspeed, which is meaningless if the performance doesn't match.
THat said, these prelistings have me very excited. Cheap chips are cheap chips, and as long as the performance is ACCEPTABLE, it doesn't have to be the fastest thing on the planet. Just give me a good deal, and I'll sell, no problem.
World records in computing are broken on a regular basis. No big deal, even AMD hints that there's more to come.
Great.
BORING.
But great.:laugh:
The fact that this thread is nearly on page 4, and will probably end at page 10. And the fact that all the other enthusiast forums are talking about this overclocking record indicate that AMD's marketing is working.
I dunno, i think last time, when they actually advertized doing the live streams, around the world...was better, almost, but they were missing Macci. WHY CAN I NOT HAVE BOTH!:cry::laugh: except that alot of the posts are my own.:laugh:Hmm. I guess.
More here:
www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/46413-amd-achieves-new-world-record-cpu-frequency.html
How can AMD keep missing the mark like this ? Just put out what the thing can do if you want to get to the masses , This is a let down . Good OC ? Yeah , Mean any thing ? No .
More details here: hwbot.org/submission/2206528_macci_cpu_frequency_fx_8150_8429.38_mhz
It's sad how many people are willing to make performance based on a best of the best ideal conditions OC that has 0 basis on real world performance.
Cherry picked or not they overclock like nothing before.
And also, it's a god damn world record, records are usually broken in abnormal conditions.
I already stated in my previous post that sometimes these high clocks can translate in high stock clocks.
Let's see a nice round number....
IT'S OVER 9000!!!
:laugh:
Marketing exploit that probably bubbled-up with bad timing, but it is at least substantiate story.... it does constitute “news”.
The right thing was like cadaveca said, “AMD should have saved it for launch day” as just a "hey by the way"... But this was going to come out, trying to keep it hush with that many “named OC’rs” hoping to keep quiet. :roll:
I think AMD just figured let it out (rather than rumor) and collaborate that it was done.
It doesn't mean much IMO, but if it is a record that has stood for 5 years that’s an achievement.