AMD breaks world CPU frequency record

Brian Ambrozy 13 Sep, 2011 at 3:56pm ET Article published in Tech

On August 31st, a team of overclockers consisting of Sami Mäkinen, Brian Mclachlan, Pete Hardman, and Aaron Schradin set up a test bench in Austin, Texas, and used exotic cooling methods to achieve a new Guinness World Record in CPU frequency—an astounding 8.429 gHz on liquid helium.

The CPU was listed only as a pre-production “Zambezi” FX—the desktop version of the new Bulldozer architecture. No release date for Zambezi has been announced yet, although Interlagos (the server version of Bulldozer) has been made available to OEMs.

The full press release can be found on the AMD blog.

Comments

13 Sep 2011 ~ 5:41pm Cliff_Forster If I'm a little bit turned on right now, what does that say about me?
13 Sep 2011 ~ 6:06pm fatcat good thing megahurtz is king
13 Sep 2011 ~ 6:23pm MrTRiot *nerdgasms over the whole thread*

p.s. AMD > Intel. Ohhhhh yaaaaa
13 Sep 2011 ~ 9:02pm Nick Dear AMD,
Come back to me baby I'll be good to you!
Love, CPU Leading Sales/Performance
13 Sep 2011 ~ 9:02pm Slayer5227 I don't know why that didn't post as me....but yeah that was my comment lol
13 Sep 2011 ~ 9:05pm Garg The impressive thing is they did it with such a good processor. In the list of record overclocks, the next ones are ancient Netburst, single-core Celerons. This 8.4 GHz processor could actually do something!
13 Sep 2011 ~ 9:09pm Garg I'll backtrack slightly and say that their CPU-Z shows only two cores active. Weak. But, clearly way better than the next ones in the list.
13 Sep 2011 ~ 9:13pm Rob-Merritt If we get to 8.8 ghz do we travel 30 years in the future?
13 Sep 2011 ~ 9:28pm Slayer5227 Rob you are now my fav person ever omg lmfao XD