• Hardware
  • AMD Buldozer hits 8.4GHz under extreme cooling!

Fudge! Now I guess we can now estimate just how much it would OC on air cooling! Guess we got another Gulftown!
yes buts only 2 cores are active out of 8,also not stable oc... still amazing
shant wroteyes buts only 2 cores are active out of 8,also not stable oc... still amazing
It seems to be a bug, showing 2 cores / 2 threads only. OC doesn't necessarily need to be stable (prime95 / linx :P), they want to see which chip can be the fastest yet still work (boot into windows and complete a validation), that's how many compete in OC. It shows you what the chip can run. Sometimes they run certain stress tests, but with liquid helium that's very difficult, they won't last a few minutes.
yeah, i bet they can't even start internet explorer with that chip, but very amazing its still working, maybe they could have gotten more than 9Ghz with 1 core (maybe)
shant wroteyeah, i bet they can't even start internet explorer with that chip, but very amazing its still working, maybe they could have gotten more than 9Ghz with 1 core (maybe)
LOL Shant I don't think they turned the other cores off...it may merely be a bug with CPU-Z software...it's quite a miracle the CPU's name appeared correctly, since CPU-Z is not yet updated to natively recognize Bulldozer, if I'm not mistaken. The idea is to get a world record with the processor fully powered.
cpu-z doesn't need to be updated to detect cores, even if it was displaying it wrong, its NOT POSSIBLE to get that clock with 8 cores, at least not yet :P its just a few years away though
It was 4 cores active not 2!!
Well it may be that one Bulldozer module (2 cores / module) was active and they achieved the record on that. It's still a valid record since it topped the single core Celeron, which it trumps even in single - threaded apps (well try running 2 threads, on a celeron!)
4 cores? really amazing!