AMD FX-8150 Breaks New Clock Speed Record at 8.8 GHz
An overclocker going by the name ksin claims to have hit a new record clock for AMD's Bulldozer CPU.

A clock speed of 8,805.64 MHz appears to be a new record for the processor. The most recent record was 8,584.8 MHz, set back in November of last year.
Like the previous record holder Andre Young, ksin also used a Asus Crosshair V Formula motherboard and only two cores were active during the test run. The core voltage was lower at 1.86 volts versus 2.076 volts, but ksin used a significantly higher base clock of 303.64 MHz with a 29x multiplier versus the 276.9 MHz and a 31x multiplier applied by Young.
There was no further information on the system such as cooling techniques used. However, if the submission is accurate, there is enough reason to believe that Bulldozer can still add a few more MHz.
When you get an FX chip (with all cores enabled) running at 8.8 GHz and it can run Prime95 for 24 hours, I'll be impressed.
You're new to suicide overclocking, aren't you?
A stock cooled IB i7 is still faster than this.....(so around 4.5GHz)
When you get an FX chip (with all cores enabled) running at 8.8 GHz and it can run Prime95 for 24 hours, I'll be impressed.
You're new to suicide overclocking, aren't you?
Well, at least started windows... And 24 hours it's just a question of enough LN...
I suppose it is more realistic to look at maximum OC with air cooling / liquid cooling (you can get into Liquid cooling just for the money you save over a Core i5, and keep that platform investment over different MB).
I don't think is completely useless, as having some max. clock reference it is at least an indicator of process quality...
Sorry, surely I have a partial review because I can't stop thinking of my first 8088 PC-XT running at 4.77Mhz with a 8Mhz Turbo... And so we got to 1000 times that clock...
I don't think that Pentium 4s architecture is useful to make any conclusion over the AMD chips...
they get to say that they did it. Nothing about is practical or useful. It is just cool
Think of it along the lines of 1/2 the stuff done on Top Gear. No, nobody in the real world does this kind of stuff... but it is still pretty damn cool!
Then i don't care . And I think it is HOT not cool.
Bullshit.
the core i7 still has the better per core performance, but the AMD makes up for it by the 4 extra half cores.
depending on the board, if you crank up the vcore voltage, pll voltage, htt voltage, with a good chip, you can get a decent overclock on the bus, northbridge, htt, and hit a CPU clock speed of above 5GHz on the 8 "cores"
Benchmarks will always show poor scaling because these CPU's don't have 8 true cores, it is basically clusters consisting of 1.5 cores each (kinda like intels hyperthreading but a little more effective)
if you want core i7 performance out of an 8 core AMD CPU, then overclock to around 4.8-5GHz and you will get mostly the same performance (though you will only be getting about the same performance as a core i7 2600k on stock settings)
AMD is still in the market just because of its pricing.