Sunday, October 7th 2012
A10-5800K Cracks 7.30 GHz in Overclocking Feat
Apparently, AMD wasn't exaggerating with its 6.50 GHz over LN2 claim for its A10-5800K APU. Overclocker GASBK_TW achieved 7317.74 MHz clock-speed for the A10-5800K, with a base clock of 118.03 MHz, multiplier of 62x, and a staggering 1.956V core voltage. The APU was cooled by liquid nitrogen. Other key components include Biostar Hi-Fi A85X motherboard, 4 GB of G.Skill DDR3-1600 MHz memory, and discrete Radeon HD 7700 series GPU. The CPUID validation can be found here.
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PC Games Hardware
48 Comments on A10-5800K Cracks 7.30 GHz in Overclocking Feat
Again I get it - woo! something functionally useless ran really fast for a very short time in an utterly unsustainable environment, and does not in any way represent how the equipment will or ever even COULD actually perform in the real world.
Like land speed testing a rocket car - yay it went fast - it's still completely useless...
...Unless one day the key to stopping the alien invasion is moving a rely small object across a Nevada salt flat in 20 seconds...
As a matter of fact, extremes push the limits of materials and engineers make them better and better and in the end we all profit from it (aircraft aluminium etc.).
Records aren't about being useful, it's about pushing the limits of materials and engineering and the engineers try to make them better (which translates into normal priced materials being better).
This does prove a point: This chip has enthusiast level overclockability. We aren't going to get it to 7.3, but we might get it to 5. This gives us hope that atleast we can do out own testing at higher clocks.
Aggressive OC's such as this one pushes development, innovation, creativity, and so on. We are talking about an APU that can OC very well under air and water that costs under $200. WOW:eek:
The purchase makes sense for somebody who doesn't have a computer already or who has something completely obsolete (Pentium4 or something like that) but you'll be spending $300 to get exactly same level of performance ...