AMD Phenom II to 6.3GHz on liquid helium (video)

Posted on Monday, January 26 2009 @ 11:22 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Two weeks ago Team Finland pushed the AMD Phenom II X4 to 6.3GHz with liquid helium and last week AMD uploaded a seven minute long video of the feat on YouTube:

In the the Nevada desert outside of Las Vegas during CES 2009, overclockers Sampsa & SF3D from Team Finland and Pete Hardman and Sami Makinen from AMD, use a combination of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium to reach CPU temperatures of -232 degrees Celsius in order to attain CPU clock speeds of 6.5GHz and smashing the world record for 3DMarks with 45,474 3DMarks in a test.

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