Overclocker Cranks AMD's Six-Core T1090 to 6.29GHz
Overclocker Cranks AMD's Six-Core T1090 to 6.29GHz
Posted 04/15/2010 at 6:17am
| by Paul Lilly
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In a couple of weeks, AMD will launch its six-core Phenom II X6 processors and go head-to-head with Intel's sole six-core part, the Core i7 980X. If early overclocking results are any indication, AMD will be putting up a fight.
An overclocker who goes by the name Luca managed to get his hands on an AMD T1090 Black Edition chip and nearly doubled the clockspeed. The part runs 3.2GHz at stock, but with some liquid nitrogen, an ASRock 890GX Extreme3 motherboard, and just 1GB of Kingston RAM, Luca managed to push the processor all the way to 6.29GHz.
Not for the faint of heart, it looks as though Luca had to the juice the CPU to 1.928V, a significant jump over the stock 1.32V setting. Yikes!
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Cruzg10
April 15, 2010 at 10:43pm
I dont have liquid nitrogen but i do have some rubbing alcohol, some purple stuff and sunny D. how high can i crank it up with those???
DBsantos77
April 15, 2010 at 6:39pm
I'll be one of the first to get this chip. Looks amazing so far
-Santos
http://dbsantos77.carbonmade.com/
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April 15, 2010 at 12:53pm
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Keith E. Whisman
April 15, 2010 at 12:42pm
Liquid Nitrogen boils away at extremely low temps so at room temp its going crazy. At these clocks I wonder what will happen to the system if it's left turned on when the last of the Nitrogen boils away. I remember back in the day with the old Athlon XP all you had to do was remove the HSF while the system was running for the processor to catch fire and burn up taking with it the mobo.
But yeah.. That six core is freaking awesome. I predict most people will be going to AMD because of the economy.
Unless Obama's prediction that the economy is improving actually is true then I see AMD picking up more marketshare from Intel.
AMD really needs this to work. I really hope it works out.
Caboose
April 15, 2010 at 1:09pm
I remember seeing that videon on Tom's Hardware. Was awesome!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Keith E. Whisman
April 15, 2010 at 1:59pm
Exactly.. They did the same thing to the Pentium 3 or was it 4 and they were playing Quake 3 and the Pentium just slowed down when they removed the HSF but kept running while the AMD CPU Burned.. Awesome videos. Those were weak clips for the HSF back in the day and say you moved your computer in your car or something and knocked your HSF loose your screwed.
bikerbub
April 15, 2010 at 1:17pm
i saw a similar video where a guy did pretty much the same thing with an i7-980x. all he did was up the multiplier to 31 for a speed of something crazy like 5ghz. throughout the video it's like a cloud over the mobo of n2, and he just keeps it in a thermos. pretty crazy.
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