Thursday, November 20th 2008
Phenom II X4 Overclocks to 6.00 GHz on LN2
During an event by AMD held at its facility in Austin, Texas, the engineers took an engineering sample of the unreleased Deneb core based Phenom II X4, installed a copper-pot for liquid nitrogen cooling, and dropped the operational temperature to -185 °C. They then jacked up the vCore to 1.90V, to facilitate a clock speed of over 6.00 GHz!
At this point the exact frequency isn't known. Cameras weren't allowed at the event, and so no clear pictures were taken. Earlier the company had released slides to its channel contacts, telling that Phenom II would overclock very well, and 24x7 overclocks beyond 3.60 GHz on air didn't sound unreal. At the same event, AMD showcased Deneb chips doing 4.00 GHz with air-cooling (with vCore set at 1.6V).
Sources:
NordicHardware, Legit Reviews
At this point the exact frequency isn't known. Cameras weren't allowed at the event, and so no clear pictures were taken. Earlier the company had released slides to its channel contacts, telling that Phenom II would overclock very well, and 24x7 overclocks beyond 3.60 GHz on air didn't sound unreal. At the same event, AMD showcased Deneb chips doing 4.00 GHz with air-cooling (with vCore set at 1.6V).
111 Comments on Phenom II X4 Overclocks to 6.00 GHz on LN2
Why you ask? Because it would force Intel to lower their prices of c2d and c2q to stay competitive. That's a win for us consumers.
In a nutshell AMD released GPUs that scale better and made a killing in the performance:cost department.
48xx scale better? From all the reviews I've read the conclusion is something like that:
gtx280 >> 4870, gtx 260 > 4850
And now with 180.xx even gtx260 >> 4870
But yes for a few months nvidia was gettin raped by ati, what was dissapoiting was that ati still couldnt get the second place in the gpu market but hell for two years nvidia was dominating in the market, it was somehow refreshing and the gpu's were graet price/performance as you said. But most important is that nvidia get fucked and I hope they learned the lesson now - great gpus + crazy price = you get raped by your competition. Im really curious what the 55nm g200 has to offer.
Source here and transalted here !
:)
I wonder how many decent boards will be available at launch, and what retail prices will be like.
Let's say: Intel Core i7 920 = AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition . . .
For the variety of the motherboards and the prices i do not know...the only thing i know is that only ASUS has high MSRPs on AMD Boards ! But on the other hand, those CPUs will be AM2+, so they will play on most of the mobos that are already out now :)
Added to our news. Thanks!
newb to tech support : hey is my mobo and my cpu meant to have conatct pins or am i missing something, I've got the intel phenom 940.
HERE are some preliminary Deneb benchmarks.
You can compare to i7 if you read German HERE. Also, Tweaktown has some benchies for i7 HERE.
Deneb Crysis Bench with ATI 4870/X2 HERE. Special THANKS to Informal in Xtremesystems for the source of these benchies.
Please do not shoot the messager, go to markbench and flame there - I do not certify these results in any way. This is for your edification and is not gospel.
Because of NDA, all journalists and mobo technicians are prohibited from posting such results, it is almost impossible to get any validation anywhere. Linus@ncix does suggest that Deneb is the bomb HERE.