As we know, there was a lot going on last week in Las Vegas and one of those events was a live extreme overclocking event on Saturday 10th, arranged by Xtremesystems. During the event, AMD Phenom II processors (an integral part of the Dragon platform) were cooled with liquid helium to temperatures as low as -242 degrees Celsius (at idle). This allowed a record breaking 3DMark05 run to be made, with the CPU running at a blistering 6.3GHz; the resulting score: 44,474. The first live display of liquid helium cooling also allowed a CPU-Z frequency of 6.435GHz to be recorded, the highest for a quad-core x86 CPU. You can see photos from the event on AMD's flickr photostream.
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
New AMD Quad-Cores Start Shipping Early
In a surprising move, online vendors have begun to offer AMD’s latest quad-core processors a while before they have been actually displayed to the public. The new processors on offer are the quad-core Phenol II chips, designed to run at at speeds from 2.8GHz to 3GHz and come with 8MB of cache.
Among these the Phenom II X4 920 runs at 2.8GHz and is being retailed for between $271 and $317 USD while the Phenom II X4 940 which runs at 3GHz is being sold for anything between $304 and $373 USD, depending on the online store. They run on DDR2 platforms and will be moved to DDR3 platforms based on the AM3 sockets, later this year.
This move comes as a big surprise, because AMD has not yet introduced these processors. Their launch is earmarked for CES 09, which will be held in January '09.
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