Present day Apple Developer Forum quickest processor on the planet gold star would go to Int I am talking about, AMD
You heard right, AMD, Intel's least-favorite nick-making rival, who apparently handled to jam prototype processing tech, incantations from the book of miracle, a sacrificial dove along with a bag of gilded runestones right into a box to coax an AMD Forex desktop processor from zero to eight.429GHz very quickly flat.
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Now read things i just authored with no made-up miracle bits plus you've got AMD's perfectly real Bulldozer-core Forex processor tech, code named "Zambezi," that roared beyond the prior record holder by over 100MHz in AMD's Guinness World Record-breaking overclock (introduced at IDF as well).
Based on HotHardware, AMD's goals throughout the exam were twofold: to exhibit the Bulldozer nick architecture has serious frequency headroom, and also to test for "cold bugs" problems that manifest at very low temps.
And also the temps got plenty low here.
The score was accomplished with fundamental BIOS configurations and without benchmarks, because the goal was strictly to offer the greatest CPU-Z score. CPU-Z is really a free and broadly used Home windows-based clocking utility for calculating a CPU's frequency or "clock speed." The time speed was modified upward on-the-fly, and also the CPU itself was cooled with liquid nitrogen.
Until they switched to liquid helium (you heard right, liquid helium) after which the temps drop to below 220 levels Celsius (or minus 428F).
Because the team entered the 8.309 record threshold, they stated "and that we had herpes scanner enabled...let's wait and watch as we will go greater."
And greater they are doing, until...well, you will want to watch out for yourself, up top, to determine (in other words hear)�what comes about when you push a CPU such as this to its absolute limits.
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Matt Peckham is really a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham or on Facebook. You may also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page as well as on Twitter at @TIME.
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