AMD now using Liquid Helium for Overclocks

Written by Matthew Cameron

Friday, 23 January 2009 14:06

A couple hours ago, one of the guys I know at AMD sent me a link to a video. This happens every once in a while and we appreciate it when someone such as this individual gives us a lead. In the past, AMD has used liquid nitrogen when doing presentations of Phenom II. Apparently someone thought that they could use something a little better. Below is part of the email that was sent to me. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by.

A record breaking event called "The Experiment" was held on the edge of Las Vegas with the goal to push AMD Phenom TM II X4 processors to the absolute limits using the most extreme techniques and methods available. The testing was done on AMD Dragon platform technology complete with dual ATI Radeon TM HD 4870 X2 and motherboards based on the AMD 790FX chipset.

Overclockers Macci, Hardman, Sampsa and SF3D were given 500 liters of liquid helium and an arsenal of motherboards from DFI and Gigabyte. The results were stunning. A world record score of 45,474 on 3D Mark 05 capped off the evening with all four processor cores at 6301MHz, the memory controller running at 3843MHz, and memory at DDR2-1100MHz. A pair of ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards using ATI CrossFireX™ technology were air-cooled at 800/950MHz. The team was able to sustain operation at frequencies approach absolute zero with benchmarks generally running at between -215 and -230 degrees centigrade, demonstrating that Phenom II has exhibited no “cold bug” allowing the use of extreme cooling and a World Record performance.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2207429 | H.264

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0JodKgZ0A | YouTube

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