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AMD Takes Bulldozer Chip Over 8 GHz on Liquid He

Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:28 am

http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-Breaks- ... Processor/

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, easily breaking the previous record of 8.309GHz. Note that 8.49GHz was attained with only two of the processor’s eight cores enabled.

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Re: AMD Takes Bulldozer Chip Over 8 GHz on Liquid He

Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:36 am

Hey, Fermilab has a helium liquifier they're not gonna need any more. Any takers? :D
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Re: AMD Takes Bulldozer Chip Over 8 GHz on Liquid He

Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:26 am

It's under nine thousand.

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Re: AMD Takes Bulldozer Chip Over 8 GHz on Liquid He

Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:20 pm

Intel, RELEASE THE CRACKEN
So whats intels top speed recorded at with extreme cooling?
 
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Re: AMD Takes Bulldozer Chip Over 8 GHz on Liquid He

Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:59 pm

RAMBO wrote:
Intel, RELEASE THE CRACKEN
So whats intels top speed recorded at with extreme cooling?

The list of CPUs over 8 GHz includes...Celerons and Zambezi.

i3/i5/i7s are all barely over 7 GHz which is where the K10s sit as well.

http://valid.canardpc.com/records.php
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Re: AMD Takes Bulldozer Chip Over 8 GHz on Liquid He

Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:38 pm

Even with AMD hitting 8.4 GHZ is Sandy Bridge still better than these new FX AMD processors?
 
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Re: AMD Takes Bulldozer Chip Over 8 GHz on Liquid He

Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:28 am

RAMBO wrote:
Even with AMD hitting 8.4 GHZ is Sandy Bridge still better than these new FX AMD processors?

Impossible to say until we see some real benchmarks. Performance of the FX CPUs relative to Intel is probably going to depend a lot on the specific application being run, due to the unusual features of the multi-core design AMD used.

Hitting 8.4 GHz on liquid helium basically tells us nothing about real-world performance. All it proves is that if you can remove a metric buttload of heat from it, it'll clock insanely high without immediately self-destructing.
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Re: AMD Takes Bulldozer Chip Over 8 GHz on Liquid He

Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:26 am

This is just for the records of MEGAHERTZ speed. because i'm pretty sure in real life they cant even surpass a Sandy bridge clocked 6GHz. AMD has lost its elegance!
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Re: AMD Takes Bulldozer Chip Over 8 GHz on Liquid He

Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:29 am

luisnhamue wrote:
AMD has lost its elegance!


How ? Were they down playing any company by capturing the record ? They just demoed that this new architecture/FX chip can achieve high GHZ, when overclockers are set to make record.
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Re: AMD Takes Bulldozer Chip Over 8 GHz on Liquid He

Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:00 am

Jigar wrote:
luisnhamue wrote:
AMD has lost its elegance!


How ? Were they down playing any company by capturing the record ? They just demoed that this new architecture/FX chip can achieve high GHZ, when overclockers are set to make record.

I love how people are trying to turn a world record OC into a "OMG AMD SUCKS" bitch-fest.

Really people? AMD has been doing this for a long time - this tells us nothing about the chip except that it can clock well and not self-destruct instantly under high clocks/volts. NOTHING ABOUT THIS IS BAD. :roll:
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