I don't know anything about AMD CPUs as I've never built one, but I do find it interesting they blanked out the core voltage field in CPU-Z. Why can't some of these folks give us some FPS benchmarks for fun?
Jeeze, and I thought I was doing good with a little E8400 that has hit 4.4GHz on air stable under Prime95. (Run it at 4.2 full time).
[citation][nom]stryk55[/nom]4 cores at 7.1 GHz for a total of 28.4 GHz of processing power...Now that is insane.[/citation]
Sir, that's some funky math . GHz do not represent processing power unless you restrict the comparison to a particular architecture. You can instead do 4 * core_flops for an idea of how powerful the CPU is. This allows you to compare the number with other CPUs even with different architectures. Just my 2$/100.
Well, what was the superpi score? I read about 5 months ago about someone breaking 7GHz with an E8600, and they were happy to report their superpi 1M score of just under 7 sec. I don't know what the maximum overclock has been with an intel core2 quadcore, but I don't think they will go as high as the dual cores.
[citation][nom]zerapio[/nom]Sir, that's some funky math . GHz do not represent processing power unless you restrict the comparison to a particular architecture. You can instead do 4 * core_flops for an idea of how powerful the CPU is. This allows you to compare the number with other CPUs even with different architectures. Just my 2$/100.[/citation]
Quite true! I just wanted to put it in to very basic terms and marvel at the sheer amount of clock speed.
Seriously though, extreme overclocking is pretty pointless as they only showcase the architecture and nothing else. Performance/clock and performance/power are thrown out the window at those speeds. I’d love to have a 10GHz 16 core i7 to run GTA IV though.
[citation][nom]idisarmu[/nom]7.1ghz Is very impressive in my opinion.I hope that 28nm cpus will get us to 3.6-3.8ghz stock and 4.2-4.6ghz overclocked.... I'm just dreaming though.[/citation]
that's not happening, as frequency goes up, heat increases exponentially
This is more than likely a fake. I read about this on another site over a day ago and there is much speculation that LimitTeam modified the numbers by exploiting a flaw in CPU-Z.
~3 days ago, a Chinese overclocking team also claimed they reached 7.2GHz, but that was shown to be fake.
I think power (heat) increases linearly with frequency and exponentially with voltage. Pentium extreme 965 was 3.73 GHz stock and 570 and 670 were 3.8 GHz. They were the highest stock speeds as far as I know. The 570 and 670 were only single core but the extreme 965 was dual core.
[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]that's not happening, as frequency goes up, heat increases exponentially[/citation]
ummm...didn't he mention the use liquid nitrogen? if not, im pretty sure that's what they used otherwise you're right