We’ll be flying both Chris and Travis out to Los Angeles for a weekend of meet and greets with AMD and Bestofmedia crew, plus some overclocking, of course. Both winners will get the chance to recreate their performances and members of Team Ironmods will also be present to do some overclocking of their own. Stay tuned for on-site reporting of this event as it happens the very first weekend in May.

To recap our contest details again, you need an AMD Phenom X3 720 and are a U.S. Resident (sorry international folks, but those are the rules we’ve been given), then you’re qualified to compete! First, you will need to prepare and then send us some information. When you enter, you'll automatically be emailed a copy of the requirements and rules.

Today we’re proud to announce that the top overclocking honors belong to Travis Jank, AKA V2-V3, who was able to take his AMD Phenom II X4 940 to a chart-topping 5.6 GHz using a 275 MHz bus speed and 20.5x multiplier. Keep in mind that the Phenom II X4 940 runs at a default speed of 3.0 GHz!

The short story goes like this. During a press overclocking event in late November, AMD got a Phenom II up to 6.3GHz with LN2 cooling. Intel immediately cried foul, and said that they were one in a million cherry-picked samples, and that they would top it. There have been several back and forths between super-OC'd i7s and Phenom IIs, with the current records being a little in favour of AMD for quad cores. As you can see here, things currently stand at 5611Mhz for an i7, 6436MHz for a Phenom II. That said, Mhz does not equal performance, and this is not to say that the i7 won't get more work done at 5.6GHz than the Phenom will at 6.4Ghz... wait, this is silly. Neither can do much at that frequency other than make an overclocker very nervous, holding his breath and clenching certain lower abdominal muscles hoping things don't crash.