AMD snags Guinness World Record for clockiest chip

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/13/amd_awarded_worlds_highest_frequency_part/

by rickdale • 15 years ago

34 13 15 years ago

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Symmetry• 15 years ago

I'm sort of surprised nobody has tried to clock a Power6 chip that high, given that you can buy ones set to 5GHz at the factory. Maybe they have less clock regulation features that help with stuff like this?

simpsond2• 15 years ago

I don't think IBM targets the enthusiast crowd with the Power6, so there are not as many knobs. I don't even know if windows supports Power6, which is standard platform for hardware enthusiasts.

wmf• 15 years ago

We have certainly overclocked Power6 (and 7) in the lab, but it would be pretty much impossible for a customer to do it. I don't think we ever set up a LN2 rig, though.

delinka• 15 years ago

"Highest clock frequency." Not "fastest processor." I am correcting the article. I like the headline's "clockiest" description.

Edit: surely I did not mean "cloak"

unwind• 15 years ago

Nit-pick: That's "clock", not "cloak".

simpsond2• 15 years ago

A video of the overclocking for those who are interested: http://hardocp.com/article/2011/09/13/amd_bulldozer_fx_model...

cultureulterior• 15 years ago

2 cores only, which I feel is cheating.

loungin• 15 years ago

I too feel it's worthless to simply 'boot up' with those frequencies. The whole point is to do _something_ with all that speed, like benchmarking, gaming, folding performance...

granitepail• 15 years ago

Where did you read that? The article would seem to imply it was an eight-core chip they were working with.

reeses• 15 years ago

Watch the video (http://hardocp.com/article/2011/09/13/amd_bulldozer_fx_model...) at about 9:15, 10:25, and 10:55 (approximately). They show close-ups of CPUZ.

cpeterso• 15 years ago

The article says they "clocked a prerelease eight-core AMD FX desktop processor to a zippy 8.429GHz".

technogeek00• 15 years ago

It seems like clock speed is no longer the race in the cpu world, though correct me if im wrong.

ashmud• 15 years ago

Would this (high frequency CPUs) be useful for hardware emulation accuracy? Related: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/accuracy-takes-po...

AMD snags Guinness World Record for clockiest chip

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