AMD Bulldozes the World Record for Overclocking

AMD’s processors have been good at achieving extremely high overclocked frequencies. It was their Phenom II processor that held the previous world record at 7.1GHz.

I must say this new record pushes the previous one aside with ease hitting 8.429GHz! To be honest my overclocked CPU is sitting around 3.8GHz and it’s a Phenom II as well and reading all this makes me feel less chuffed with myself.

Doesn't that look cool?!

The record was set by two of the world’s best overclockers using liquid helium as cooling Bearing in mind that this is now only a few degrees above absolute zero this starting to look pretty ‘cool’. Now, who wants that cooling their PC? I know I do. If any of you were wondering, AMD has announced that they did try this CPU on an air-cooled system and managed to push the CPU to 5GHz. That’s great but I’d still prefer that liquid helium.

For this event AMD flew a selected few of press down to Austin Texas for a ‘tech day’ and to see for themselves the, at that point, unreleased Bulldozer, witness its capability and watch it break the world record for highest frequency CPU.

The marvel of this overclock is that it was done with a duel core processor. It is notably easier to overclock single core CPU’s than it is multi-core CPU’s and that is why Intel Celeron CPU’s are more often than not near the top end of the high overclock chart. This does nothing but raise the bar for Intel and also for overclockers all over the world for a new standard has been set.