AMD Bulldozer reaches 8.43 Ghz on liquid Helium

[Micutzu]

Macci and the team managed to push the long-awaited Bulldozer to 8.43 Ghz and had the record registered by the Guiness Book of Records as the fastest frequency for a computer CPU ever, beating the previous 8303 Mhz held by an older Intel CPU. The sample of the AMD FX CPU was a 8-core model and liquid Helium was used for the event, wich was held on 31 August.

Source: lab501.ro

[K404]

Sweet!

[Motiv]

Gratz. Have a Guinness on me

[BoredByLife]

Wow, that is insane. Even though this is on liquid helium, it shows the raw clockspeed the Bulldozer is capable of.

[AsterixXx]

wonderful!! So on air 5GHz+ should not be a problem

[Olivon]

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1980971

[MACMAC]

Yes, they did...and I was there!

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- News Post

[Warwian]

HardOCP had an article and a nice video clip regarding this and general Bulldozer overclocking! Worth a look:

http://hardocp.com/article/2011/09/1...ocking_preview

[radaja]

congrats to chew*,macci,hardman,64NOMIS,AJA and AMD FX!!!!

World Record Significance

Still, unless you are intimately familiar with subzero overclocking like I am, or you just get excited by new records like I do, you may be asking what a CPU Frequency record matters to Joe Sixpack? Don’t let anyone – or any marketing – fool you. This record isn’t going to change the way you compute daily, it isn’t going to mean you hit 6GHz on air, and it isn’t confirmation of what other benchmark performance we should expect to see from Bulldozer. We’ll be bringing you the benchmark performance, air cooling OC results, as well as more subzero results soon, but you’ll have to stay tuned until we can bring you all of those tests in the not too distant future. All that said, results of “well beyond 5GHz” on air were claimed on cooling solutions priced below the $100 mark!

[Olivon]

[Origin_Unknown]

Congrats!

2v core? is that a misreading?

[MACMAC]

Congrats!

2v core? is that a misreading?

Nope, it's accurate.

[eXa]

WOW

9Ghz broken soon then?

[Mav451]

Haha I came to XS once I heard who was present at the BD event.

[AKM]

congrats to chew*,macci,hardman,64NOMIS,AJA and AMD FX!!!!

All that said, results of “well beyond 5GHz” on air were claimed on cooling solutions priced below the $100 mark!

Now this is far more important

[hurleybird]

Only 1 module enabled... and half the L3 cache?

[Buckeye]

Nice work Team AMD !

[blindbox]

Beating the crap out of Pentium 4 GHz records. Nice!

[hersounds]

but wait a minute...only 2 cores?...i7 990x reach 7 ghz wich 6 cores and 12 threads...

[repman]

but wait a minute...only 2 cores?...i7 990x reach 7 ghz wich 6 cores and 12 threads...

And? I didn't see it reach 8.4 with 2 cores either...
It's for frequency record, you use as little as possible...

[FlanK3r]

omg, omg, awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!! So, I can sleep today ! Congratulatons guys! Wow....

[hersounds]

And? I didn't see it reach 8.4 with 2 cores either...
It's for frequency record, you use as little as possible...

anyway you see an ivybridge 22nm with LIQUID HELIUM?....think...think fast

[Iconyu]

anyway you see an ivybridge 22nm with LIQUID HELIUM?....think...think fast

Nah you'll probably think x57 multiplier.

[repman]

anyway you see an ivybridge 22nm with LIQUID HELIUM?....think...think fast

Mate you are going off-topic...
If it could be done with i7 or whichever CPU it would be done (instead of doing it with a Celeron!). AFAIK frequency records are always set with 1-2 cores...

[Buckeye]

Dream Team AMD with Simon at the helm have been at the cutting edge of pushing tech to its absolute limits yet again. The team that is put together for this is the best there is. It's not just 2 cores or what ever else that can be said, but the fact that these new CPU's can be pushed to such high speeds running under such cold temps that is impressive. This is what we over clockers live for, those high ghz speeds.

Thanks guys !