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.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.
225 Comments on AMD FX Sets Guinness Record for Clock Speed
www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2011/9/13/ibuypower-launches-worlds-fastest-amd-fx-8150-bulldozer-system.aspx
I hope we see benches in the next few days so we can get to a point in here (performance issue).
Let me help out.
1. AMD holds the record for highest overclock. Intel doesn't.
2. We still don't know a damn thing about Bulldozer's performance.
3. It doesn't matter what you guys are whining about because of #2.
If AMD holding the record bothers you, tough, because they hold it.
If not knowing about Bulldozer bothers you, tough, because nobody is going to tell you.
Now can we please get this thread back on track?
Good for AMD you got a record that means nothing, now hurry up and give me a processor, I can't overclock a world record . . ..
Pshaw.
Poopooing AMD for using an ES is like claiming that all 980X results over 6 GHz do not count. (cuz they are all ES)
i too aw not
but what i can see is that
this is a PR stunt, it is a stunt to satiate not the user
but the higher-upper level
I would assume that BD still need time for refinement
but in a big corp such as AMD, there are various dept other than the engineering
what is time required by engineer to refine their stuff may not necessary time given by the marketing
For me
i will wait for proper launch with proper review
the talk of "no importance" "not indicative to RL usage" for me is also blowing hot air
Good marketing though imo.
I find it odd you are calling me out for claiming that ES samples are okay when so many exist in our world. HWbot allows it, so its all good.
PS: XS might be great place to read, but filled with too much animosity, no thank you.
PSS: Should be pointed out that ln2 only resulted in less than 8GHz
not against them :laugh: was just saying they do in fact exist in the wild more than people think since so few people clock with LN2 or LHe. That being said with the correct retail chip ES chips can be beat.
they do exist, just rare :)
AMD ES chips are usually easy to beat, so I am hopeful without LHe :)
EDIT: I need LN2 and 8150 FX chip!!!!
PS - XS has GREAT information, its just to Sloooooooooooooooow to looooooooooooooooooad.
When a car does the world speed record down at laguna seca they are required to run a speficic course and they to do the return run. the record speed is the avarage of both runs.
I said the same when intel pulled the same stunt at toms hardware a few years back. they took a northwood P4 and Liquid nitrogen cooled it to 4.something ghz.
The record is usless unless its stable. any idiot can get a CPU to post at ridiclous speeds with the right tweaking. i want to see them complete a prime95 run or a 3dmark run. shutdown. restart the system and complete a 2nd prime95 or 3dmark run. i doubt that machine could do 2+2 in calc.exe let alone a prime95 run.