news 28 Posted November 20, 2008 Today at a press meeting AMD showed off the upcoming Phenom II X4 processors running at stock and overclocked speeds. While we can't share all the deatils quite yet, we can report the impressive overclocking we saw on these first 45nm CPUs. On air cooling, clock speeds nearing 4.0 GHz were shown but the really impressive overclocks were with liquid nitrogen: over 6.0 GHz!! URL: http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=6455 Quote: "The first leaks were that the Phenom II could hit 4 GHz on air cooling alone, though we obviously wonder how extreme that air cooling is. Well today AMD had some actual demonstrations at their gathering, and the Phenom II was able to hit 5 GHz at 1.6v by using dry ice cooling. Dry ice is CO2, and it goes directly from solid to gas (sublimation) at a temperature of -109.3 F (-78.5C for the rest of the world) at 1 atmosphere. So with some pretty extreme cooling (non-LN) the Phenom II does show that it has some legs in the clock speed department." Thanks for a post! Ryan Shrout PC Perspective rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com Share this post Link to post
