AMD Phenom II Overclocked To 6.5GHz 303
An anonymous reader writes "During CES a group of overclockers with access to liquid nitrogen and liquid helium for the extra boost of coldness cooled an AMD Phenom II X4 chip to -232 degrees Celsius. Once they got the chip cooled to this frigid temperature, they pushed the clock speed all the way up to 6.5GHz, which is a world record for a quad-core CPU, and then dished out an astonishing 45,474 3DMark05 score!"
The things you have to go through.. (Score:5, Funny)
.. to get a decent score in 3DMark ..
Crunchy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Zomg (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, only 6.5GHz too.
Call me when it goes up to 11
first post! (Score:2, Funny)
But... (Score:4, Funny)
Can you run FSX and Cryis at 60FPS?
New York weather... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure if it's quite -232 Celsius in my apartment but it's pretty close. They probably could have achieved 6.0GHz overclocking using an air-cooled system in my living room alone.
Re:Zomg (Score:5, Funny)
Don't we already have CPUs running at 3GHz?
Re:And I'm Guessing (Score:3, Funny)
Your Windows EULA prohibits operation in such an environment.
Reliability? (Score:2, Funny)
FIRST POST (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The things you have to go through.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The things you have to go through.. (Score:4, Funny)
Now Vista can run decently.... That's a shame, they want to replace it with Win7...
Re:Zomg (Score:5, Funny)
i cant tell but is there an incredibly large whoosh goin over my head? (or just your head?). 6.5Ghz is faster than 3. And in other news six is afraid of 7, because 7, 8, 9
Re:first post! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm fairly sure 'epic fail' doesn't even begin to describe your post
Re:I was there (Score:5, Funny)
-242C is a temperature that doesn't exist, unless your religion allows temperatures below absolute zero. All we need now is a campaign for Intelligent Cold. ;)
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Re:The things you have to go through.. (Score:5, Funny)
It's good to know that I can spend a few thousand on cooling supplies now and get a machine that can run Crysis.
I was worried I'd have to wait a year or two for those kinds of numbers to reach the few hundred dollar range.
Re:Reliability? (Score:4, Funny)
Ah, it runs hot and cold. Mostly cold.
Re:first post! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I was there (Score:4, Funny)
I can vouch for that one. Just come take a trip up to Canada!
Re:New York weather... (Score:3, Funny)
You can't be married. Any woman would have turned on the central heating to max by now, and filled every room with electric heaters on top.
And they'd still complain about it being cold, even as you sat there sweating like a pig, wearing a wife-beater, with your feet in cold water, and a cold can of wife-beater in your hand.
Re:I was there (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, and this was the mistake I made. 237, 273... Ah the price I pay to make a joke about "Intelligent Cold"! :)
Shoulda got me some "Intelligent Dumb!"
Re:Zomg (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, only 6.5GHz too. Call me when it goes up to 11
Of course, only AMD's "Black Editions" permit overclocking in this way. As this is an uber-overclocked CPU, I guess you could ask "how much more black could this CPU be"?
And the answer is none. None more black.
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Imagine a Beowul... oh, never mind.
I heard (Score:2, Funny)
that it still only scored 4.7 on the Vista Performance Index...
Re:FIRST POST (Score:1, Funny)
> ...with my lightning-fast 486!!!
Did you forget to press the "TURBO" button? :-)
Re:Zomg (Score:5, Funny)
And in other news six is afraid of 7, because 7, 8, 9
Oh, that makes sense! I always thought 6 was just a big pussy.
Re:from TFA (Score:5, Funny)
Like Ozymandias, nothing beside remains...
"My name is G1G4BY73_PU5H3R, Overclocker of Overclockers:
Look on my 1337 benchmarks, ye n00bs, and despair!"
Re:The things you have to go through.. (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah. The sequel is called Cryo.
Toxic coolants (Score:2, Funny)
I'm skeptical. Extreme overclocking requires copious amounts of dangerous coolants which are known to cause severe brain damage [totl.net] to the system's user. Side effects include: empty fridge, finding strangers sleeping in your tub and massive hangovers.
Re:Zomg (Score:3, Funny)
Yea, the poster must have gotten confused - they actually overclocked it to 6500+
Re:from TFA (Score:3, Funny)
Two vast and shapeless puffs of smoke
Fill the basement. Near them on the floor,
Half black, a shatter'd hard disk lies,...