AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier

[Miyuki]

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.

- AMD breaks 7GHz barrier with liquid helium and nu-metal

[Henreh]

Wow.







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[kag]

Hope they don't spill any on the keyboard >.<

I guess the next is graphics card?
CPUs speeds are pretty useless nowadays, the next are just GPUs and SSDs.

[Sanichi]

Pretty impressive.

[WhatThePhuc]

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

[evileyes]

Originally Posted by kag

Hope they don't spill any on the keyboard >.<

I guess the next is graphics card?
CPUs speeds are pretty useless nowadays, the next are just GPUs and SSDs.

or better yet getting the CPU speed without liquid helium... or nitrogen...
but anyway isn't that kind of speed useless if the rest of the components can't keep up?

[Light]

I personally don't see the point to this.
Sure you got the CPU to an extreme Ghz, but not in a practical home environment.

Liquid Helium is expensive and dangerous to work with, so even though they hit 7Ghz they really didn't accomplish anything other then a record.

Time and Money which could be better spent making more efficient CPU's and cooling units to support them.
So that many can benefit from the high speeds they obviously can reach.

[evileyes]

Originally Posted by Light

I personally don't see the point to this.
Sure you got the CPU to an extreme Ghz, but not in a practical home environment.

Liquid Helium is expensive and dangerous to work with, so even though they hit 7Ghz they really didn't accomplish anything other then a record.

Time and Money which could be better spent making more efficient CPU's and cooling units to support them.
So that many can benefit from the high speeds they obviously can reach.

Well people aren't exactly the best at prioritizing tasks.
Anyway you can tell they don't exactly have the best cooling units because 3ed party coolers usually do better than the CPU's Stock cooler.