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AMD snags Guinness World Record for clockiest chip
- Symmetry 15y agoI'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?
- simpsond 15y agoI 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 15y agoWe 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 15y 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 15y agoNit-pick: That's "clock", not "cloak".
- simpsond 15y agoA video of the overclocking for those who are interested: http://hardocp.com/article/2011/09/13/amd_bulldozer_fx_model_8150_cpu_overclocking_preview http://hardocp.com/article/2011/09/13/amd_bulldozer_fx_model...
- cultureulterior 15y ago2 cores only, which I feel is cheating.
- loungin 15y agoI 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 15y agoWhere did you read that? The article would seem to imply it was an eight-core chip they were working with.
- reeses 15y agoWatch the video (http://hardocp.com/article/2011/09/13/amd_bulldozer_fx_model_8150_cpu_overclocking_preview 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 15y agoThe article says they "clocked a prerelease eight-core AMD FX desktop processor to a zippy 8.429GHz".
- technogeek00 15y agoIt seems like clock speed is no longer the race in the cpu world, though correct me if im wrong.
- ashmud 15y agoWould this (high frequency CPUs) be useful for hardware emulation accuracy? Related: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator.ars http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/accuracy-takes-po...