AMD Breaks Overclocking Record With Bulldozer

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.

Re:Signal propagation limits

[Lumpy]

I though the Police solved the Synchronicity problem in 1983....

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Synchronicity_(album) [wikimedia.org] - a wiki article about their research.

Re:Overclocking a what?

[Anonymous Coward]

Give away the processor, and sell the liquid helium. The gillette model all over again.

Re:Signal propagation limits

[tepples]

Their solution won a Grammy, but the public won't be able to make full use of it until 2078.

Re:Signal propagation limits

[ShakaUVM]

>>Second is a metric system unit...

Yeah, but a foot isn't. That's the funny thing. A foot is a better natural unit for distance than a meter.

We really ought to be using kilofeet and millifeet rather than meters. =)

Re:Protection

[Kvasio]

Next on Fox News:
"My CPU overheated while I watched porn. Wanted to add some nitrogen and that's how I lost my John Thomas"