Ha, and you thought a 3DMark06 score of 5,086 was intense when AMD's Phenom II was overclocked to a blistering 3.85GHz. Just after CES, a team of hardcore speed freaks with access to liquid nitrogen and liquid helium created an environment for OC'ing one of AMD's latest Phenom II X4 chips in -232 degrees Celsius weather. Once the silicon was appropriately chilled, they proceeded to push the clock speed to a staggering 6.5GHz, which proved nimble enough to deliver a patently absurd 45,474 3DMark05 score. The best part? The adoring public was there to bear witness, and every nail-biting second of it is hosted up in the video just past the break.
It is cheating a bit too much - the previous best scores (which weren't that far behind) were done using relatively cheap dual cores and even some 1.8G core in a couple of the earlier funtastic liquid helium parties. I think there's an i7 score that beats it, though.
Not to mention, if there were separate lists, people would just lie and cheat to get on the standard machines list.
I really think extreme overclocking should be mostly ignored, take the Q6600, it's a great chip, but it has the bonus of running 3ghz+ easily, if you want it to, with air cooling.
none of this super extreme stuff, just doesn't work for me.
I do like speed, and I do like shiny. But the end result I want is silky smooth gaming. I really couldn't be arsed spending my time cooling chips and finding the most stable revisions just to get the biggest score from a 3d mark.
HereComesPete wrote: I do like speed, and I do like shiny. But the end result I want is silky smooth gaming. I really couldn't be arsed spending my time cooling chips and finding the most stable revisions just to get the biggest score from a 3d mark.
I can get a lot of extra speed from this machine if I need it, but I like stability and low noise more than an extra ghz from my cpu.
AMD's Phenom II pushed to 6.5GHz, 3DMark record demolished
I do like speed, and I do like shiny. But the end result I want is silky smooth gaming. I really couldn't be arsed spending my time cooling chips and finding the most stable revisions just to get the biggest score from a 3d mark.