Wednesday, November 26th 2008
Intel to Retaliate to AMD Phenom II Overclocking Feat, Plans Demonstration at CES '09
Intel plans its own public demonstration of the overclocking capabilities of the Core i7 processors. This, in response to rival AMD achieving an overclock of well beyond 5.00 GHz, and booting at speeds above 6.00 GHz. The engineers at Intel reportedly carried out a large-scale binning of Core i7 processors, to cherry-pick the best performing part. The scale of binning could well be best of 100,000 units.
A chief engineer at Intel, Francoise Piednoel expressed his reservations regarding the 6.00 GHz overclocking feat AMD carried out with its upcoming Phenom II X4 processor last week, saying that the overclocking capabilities of the Phenom II X4 demonstrated do not reflect those of release-grade products, and cannot be replicated in a real-world setting. AMD may have disabled several sensors on the cherry-picked chip used in its demonstration, which facilitated that overclock. In response to this, Intel would be disabling the same sensors, in its special demonstration chip. The demo could be held at CES 2009. The professional overclocker chosen to achieve this feat would be none other than FUGGER from XtremeSystems. FUGGER could be set the task of taking the most desirable, binned Core i7 965 Extreme Edition chip all the way up to a stellar 7.00 GHz, if all goes well.
Sources:
XtremeSystems, Chile Hardware
A chief engineer at Intel, Francoise Piednoel expressed his reservations regarding the 6.00 GHz overclocking feat AMD carried out with its upcoming Phenom II X4 processor last week, saying that the overclocking capabilities of the Phenom II X4 demonstrated do not reflect those of release-grade products, and cannot be replicated in a real-world setting. AMD may have disabled several sensors on the cherry-picked chip used in its demonstration, which facilitated that overclock. In response to this, Intel would be disabling the same sensors, in its special demonstration chip. The demo could be held at CES 2009. The professional overclocker chosen to achieve this feat would be none other than FUGGER from XtremeSystems. FUGGER could be set the task of taking the most desirable, binned Core i7 965 Extreme Edition chip all the way up to a stellar 7.00 GHz, if all goes well.
83 Comments on Intel to Retaliate to AMD Phenom II Overclocking Feat, Plans Demonstration at CES '09
Let the war begin :D
Unless they like to catch the bench tables on fire haha
but, if the new Intel chip fails to meet their hoped-for mark . . . I think I'll end up soaking myself laughing.
notice - I'm not saying it isn't possible or won't happen . . . but if the irony strikes . . .
we already have core i7 in stores and well know how it clocks, so that 7 ghz will not mean much
www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=206571
you may have to read a few pages though... i think the talk of this starts about half way through.
Good, we could see "action" again next year. We desperately need this competition to keep prices down!
How do they know if the PII tests had anything different then a "regular" engineering sample, much like those of i7 that were posted before the chip came out?
LOL
AMD MAY have disabled the sensors so we ARE going to. :laugh:
HHAHHAHAAH! I love it that the monopoly-abusing jerks are running scared because their overpriced new platform can't go beyond 5GHz without cheating. :laugh:
It would be fun if a hardware review site replicates the 6GHz number with a retail Phenom 2 from Newegg! Now that would humiliate Intel wouldn't it? :D