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).
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IF amd do put out processors superior to penryn and great price/performance then they will have my money :D
The site I posted, markbench.blogspot.com, has now been discredited. See comments on their site as well as xtremesystems news section. All graphs are fake.
However, we now have some "legitimate" news on Deneb overclocking. See HERE. Many thanks to Informal, at xtremesystems, for this site reference.
Much better then my lapped Q6600 72C on 3.6ghz @ 1.45v with xigmatek S1283 and MX2 on full....... idle about 45C