AMD World Record 8.429Ghz

[rfbennett1]

AMD FX with Liquid Nitrogen

http://youtu.be/UKN4VMOenNM

Nuff Sed!!

[xenopeek]

It was running Windows

Anyway, I hope AMD start making processors that can compete in the market without you have to use liquid nitrogen...

[rfbennett1]

Anyway, I hope AMD start making processors that can compete in the market without you have to use liquid nitrogen...

Wow there really that bad? I allways got the impression that they are the market leaders?

[DrHu]

Not being an inveterate tweaker (gamer), I don't have the need to get the nth bit of performance from a system

And I always feel it is to difficult to maximize the whole system
--although I can do parts, such as graphics responsiveness for games and so on, but not as a total tweak for the whole OS/hardware system..

I usually buy AMD for their better price points
--and find that to be good enough for me: mostly using applications.

[xenopeek]

I think Intel is more active on supporting and promoting Linux. AMD has good products, but price/performance it can't compete, though with its recent mobile offering it has much better IGP solution than Intel. Anyway, just my opinion. And yes, though I don't play FPS or such, I do enjoy building and tweaking my system for speed. It's a hobby

[karliet]

i want 1


actually can i have 2

[Aging Technogeek]

This is really just a sales gimmick. A quad core processor was used running only one core, it was cooled with liquid helium, and all it had to do was boot into Windows and report its clock speed. It did no useful work. For a detailed discussion of the new AMD Bulldozer CPU, including benchmark tests against Intel's Sandy Bridge units, see this article

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/processors/amd-fx-8150-1033315/review

[Cable]

This is really just a sales gimmick. A quad core processor was used running only one core, it was cooled with liquid helium, and all it had to do was boot into Windows and report its clock speed. It did no useful work. For a detailed discussion of the new AMD Bulldozer CPU, including benchmark tests against Intel's Sandy Bridge units, see this article

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/processors/amd-fx-8150-1033315/review

As soon as I saw this thread I was thinking about this.

They only used one core, but that's the way people do it currently. It's quite sad.

[xenopeek]

Yeah, using only one core is not that interesting anymore. I've started doing some programming in the Go language (developed at Google), and that makes it very easy to have your code execute things in parallel (using multiple threads). In fact, that could be called the core of the language. As 2012 will see 10 core processors (with AMD Komodo for example), and even smartphones now already have dual-core processors, they way forward is definitely not single-core performance

[Aging Technogeek]

The AMD unit is a good processor and is slightly less expensive than the Intel Core i Sandy Bridge Units it is compared to, but the Intel products have a definite edge in performance. The AMD Bulldozer Quad was even out out performed in some areas by an older generation AMD Phenom x6.

The most attractive thing about the new AMD unit to me is its speed

The AMD FX-8150 has a standard clockspeed of 3.6GHz, with a possible Turbo Core available to it to allow it push up to around 3.9GHz.

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Unfortunately this speed increase is not enough to make it outperform the Intel Core i5 and Core i7 units it is benchmarked against.

As a midrange (performance and price) unit it is quite attractive, but for real high end, price no object performance Intel is still the leader.

[mthees]

I saw this video a while back and what really surprised me about it wasn't the use of liquid helium, since that is the next coldest thing after liquid nitrogen, no actually it was the complete and utter lack of concern about the geometry of the thermal conductor above the processor. Hollow cylinders are fine for low level over clocking but in high performance stuff like this they really need to reconsider how they can draw heat away from the processor most efficiently. Liquid He and N are good and effective but terribly inefficient, however not using them takes you out of the game completely.

My opinion would be to 3 dimensional the thermal conductors, , best design would probably be a hemisphere on each side of the motherboard creating a sphere around the CPU, with a means to pump a current of liquid N or He through the layers to cool the entire apparatus as opposed to the chip only.

[nunol]

Still prefer Intel to AMD

It depends on what segment you are talking about, ex: for netbooks I like the AMD E-450, E-350, C-60, etc more than I like the Intel Atom. For afordable desktops I also like AMD but for more expensive computers I go for an i5 or i7 Intel CPU.

[The-Wizard]

Still prefer Intel to AMD

back in the days of the 486 and p series processors i had many failures with Intel so i went 100% AMD and have never since installed an Intel in anything i built [buying lappies a different scenario due to the lack of choice of AMD powered models ]


wizard