[Team.AU] AMD Austin Tech Day - Information from the inside...AMD is baaaaaaack!!!

[dinos22]

Josh from Team.AU and The Overclocker popped in on AMD the other day and has some amazing news for us OCers

Full report here: http://i4memory.com/f56/amd-austin-t...13/#post100055

here is something interesting for Ocers

While the unit demonstrated was @ 3.9GHz, we later had a hands on benching period with the new platform and I was able to quite easily reach this stated 4GHz frequency.

This same platform also exceeded 5GHz on liquid nitrogen cooling. But what was perhaps the coolest (no pun intended) specific of this demonstration was the processor operating and even cold booting at -196 degrees Celsius - that's right, AMD has no cold bugs of any kind, at all for Phenom II!

During this LN2 session the system was demonstrated operating in excess of 5GHz and running 1.95v BIOS set (1.936v CPU-Z read in Windows) and as stated, at the maximum lowest temps available with liquid nitrogen - time to find a liquid helium supplier peeps!

[Aussie FX]

This is awesome. :ocx2008s15:

[dinos22]

only odd thing is Josh saying it was cold booting at -196C
how can it boot at those temps
that is physically impossible

[Sam]

how about performance?

[dinos22]

AMD is tight lipped
who knows

doubt they will have the efficiency of Intel rigs
but if most nehalems bench at 5GHz and these CPUs do 5.3/5.4 then who knows how it will play out

[Massman]

Originally Posted by Sam

how about performance?

Apparently CPC as fast as the I7

[Turrican]

that are some w00t news.

[LIKMARK]

Looking like they got their act together, lets hope the cpu's werent too cherrypicked.

[justapost]

Yesterday I read somewhere that they used an cherry for 6+ and an average chip reached those really 5+. Can't find the source today.

@massman: you've seen results?

[dinos22]

Originally Posted by Massman

Apparently CPC as fast as the I7

are you sure
heh