Endless Paradigm

Quote:A while back I went to a fun overclocking event held by AMD, where there was a lot of vapor, some exploding burritos, and some overclocking that got tantalizingly close to 7GHz. It was just an arbitrary number, and they broke a bunch of other records, but they couldn’t quite hit that last target. But a few months and I can only guess how much liquid helium later, they nailed it.

Their video, far from the lighthearted hijinx and sloppy editing of my own, is a professional affair, dominated by some nu-metal that perfectly embodies the concept of overclocking. Well, that’s not really true. But it’s better than the constant hissing noise that is the soundtrack to mine.

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Well done AMD, now go catch up to Intel.

Liquid helium though.  The average user like me and you aren't going to get anywhere close to these numbers.

Too bad I have a Phenom1, and that can't overclock as well as a PhenomII or Core2.

AMD got 5GHz with liquid nitrogen before the release of the Phenom II.  Improved chip? (haven't seen the video)

7ghz? You best be joking homeslice.

I wish I had a 7ghz anything. The best I have is 1.6 dual core. (Rates at 2.4 single for some reason)

That's really fast!!

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:AMD got 5GHz with liquid nitrogen before the release of the Phenom II.  Improved chip? (haven't seen the video)

Liquid Helium > Liquid Nitrogen.

Also depends on the chip in question, some chips are just "better" than others.  You can buy 2 chips of the exact same model, and find one to just overclock better than the other.

^ Probably, but I'm not sure it's really just that which gives a ~40% boost.
I'd have expected AMD to use fairly high binned chips for their showcases.

Actually, I did some research...  Phenom2's had a few revisions since the start, now up to C3, so yeah, probably an improved chip.

That shot says Core #1...... does that mean the other core is 7GHz or are they clocked different?

Senseito7 Wrote:That shot says Core #1...... does that mean the other core is 7GHz or are they clocked different?

Ofcourse all the other cores are also 7GHz.

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Heh, currently my CPU fan is spinning at 4500RPM because I'm encoding with 100% CPU usage (have been for like 12hrs straight), and it's a hot day.  CPU is around 50 degrees right now.  Stock fan, and I'm overclocking.