AMD chip sets Guinness World Record for processing speed

[solin]

AMD's new FX chip sets new world record for speedy CPUs.

There is a new Guinness World Record for fastest CPU, and AMD’s new FX processor has set it.

The Sunnyvale chip manufacturer announced the record-setting run this week, which saw the chip hit a processing speed of 8.429GHz, breaking the old record of 8.308GHz.

The company posted a video of the record being broke by “Team AMD FX” (Sami Maekinen, Brian Mclachlan, Pete Hardman and Aaron Schradin), and not only does it show how the new record was achieved, it also proves that yes, a video of people breaking a record for CPU speed can actually be, well… exciting.

Before you get any ideas about trying to replicate their results with your own processor, it’s worth noting that in order for the team to achieve such a high speed with the chip, they first had to use liquid nitrogen to cool it, and then switch to liquid helium, “a substance only a few degrees higher than absolute zero.”

So unless you have some of those ingredients handy, you’ll have to be satisfied with your CPU’s current speed.

The record-setting AMD FX CPU is scheduled for release later this year.


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[JayCub]

Thank you Solin i can just see me going LN2 mode, imagine i could trash my motherboard cpu and house all in one go.. Interesting bench-mark video, but i will stick with Intel unless i was going mATX..

[hsakarp_kahtap]

Thanks solin, saw this yesterday

[Bearcat]

Got some liquid nitrogen on order. I want to see just how high my Sandy Bridge i5 can fly!

[JayCub]

All you need to do Bear is wait for the winter to arrive and you will not need liquid nitrogen to cool your cpu.. i wouldn't like your weather

I have read reports saying Sandy Bridge chips can be stable on Air at 5.0 Ghz.. but these are good aftermarket coolers been used.

[Bearcat]

All you need to do Bear is wait for the winter to arrive and you will not need liquid nitrogen to cool your cpu.. i wouldn't like your weather .

Oh man, thanks for the laugh Jay, I really needed it! The bad part about it is that its true. If I opened the window in my computer room in January, even the i5 might shiver a bit and the red LED's in the computer case would turn blue!

[Student26]

I might actually have winter that will not snow. And I think that I may miss it :P

[Bearcat]

I might actually have winter that will not snow. And I think that I may miss it :P

I will gladly share with you!

[Student26]

I will gladly share with you!

I am substituting it with rain so it be harder to bear.

[Bearcat]

I am substituting it with rain so it be harder to bear.

OK, but if you change your mind let me know.