Record for over clocking AMD FX

Over clocking records are usually the preserve of the most passionate users, willing to adventures with the most driven cooling systems for a few minutes if not seconds, of glory at clock considered unthinkable. That the search for the maximum clock frequency at which to start a system has always been a technological challenge an end in itself, evidence of what can be done even if only for the space of a screen or so.

It's an effect and then sees how AMD today to announce the passing of a much sought after records that the higher clock frequency obtained with a processor. It is no coincidence that this has come with a pre-production sample of the FX series processor, next-generation AMD CPUs expected to debut in the fourth quarter of 2011.



The new attendance record is 8,429 MHz, well, as witnessed in the screenshot utility CPU-Z. The processor, AMD FX-8150 model has been modified by enabling only one of the modules available on the 4 integrated Bulldozers: This only justifies the use of two cores. The frequency multiplier, unlocked upwards in these CPUs, has been increased to 31x while the frequency of buses is increased to about 272 MHz compared to 200 MHz by default.

To accomplish this, AMD has used the combined standard supply voltages well above the default use of cooling systems and highly motivated. Alongside the traditional liquid nitrogen was used liquid helium, capable of a minimum temperature even more limited and already used for other similar tests from AMD with Phenom over clocking II. The use of these techniques imply the absence of so-called Cold Bug in the processor, which prevents the CPU to operate properly when frequency is increased to greatly below zero.


Posted by: Wasim Javed