It may not technically be the world’s fastest processor, but AMD squeezed an overclocked Guinness World Record number out of its impending 8-core FX CPU: 8.429GHz, beating the previous global high of 8.308GHz. Intel fanboys, begin your outrage!
It’s a massively impressive number from the unlocked chip, but one you’re not going to come anywhere close to on your own, unless you have several giant canisters of liquid nitrogen handy every time you want to start gaming. But even that wasn’t enough, as the team had to switch over to blasts of liquid helium to crack the world record threshold. Maybe you’ll be able to achieve something more reasonable with your trusty air-cooled heatsink — the team was able to top 5GHz with only sub-$US100 air and water methods. Or maybe this video will persuade you to invest in industrial-grade coolants. I bet that thing was flying through Excel docs. [AMD]
jeremy
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 9:14 AMSad. AMDs desperate attempt to distract us all from an unfortunate fact – thier CPUs still suck vs Intel in any and all real world situations Mhz for Mhz, Watt for Watt and volt for volt, with no end in sight (3d transistors here we come). Poor old AMD, how I miss your glory days :-(
Stefan
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 9:34 AMThey may not dominate the high end, but they can certainly fight for the mid-lower end. What people don’t realise is not everyone needs/wants the fastest CPU on the market.
Especially for gamers, most processors on the market will run any game perfectly fine, any extra performance increase is simply for future-proofing.
yep
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 10:30 AMexcept value for $$
jeremy
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 11:23 AMIt’s not just the CPUs, its the chipsets too. Like I said, I really wish AMD could compete, but they can not, they get smacked in pretty much every category. Witness the latest chips – late, and “overclocked” just to compete with slower, cooler but faster intel chips. In 2012 it looks like it is all over red rover for the best challenge to intel, which is definitely a bad thing.
Ollie
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 10:13 AMMight wanna work on your terminology… the “chipset” is what’s on the motherboard. AMD chipsets are phenomenally good, I don’t know what you are referencing really.
Please, show us some comparison arguments to substantiate your claim that they aren’t?
Steve
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 3:23 PMOr I could pay about half the price for an AMD that is only 1/6th worse then use say my savings on better GPU’s? Wait gaming relies on GPU’s more than CPU oh I never knew. Everything coded today is obviously running on multiple multiple cores, oh wait it’s not.