AMD FX 8150 processor at 8.80 GHz

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/29/2012 09:13 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

The AMD processors can run high clock frequencies, this one it even beyond that, 8805.64 MHz, to be precise.

A Thai overclocker under the name "ksin" took dibs and was to able to run the chip using a base clock speed of 303.29 MHz, and multiplier of 29.0x. A scorching 1.86V core voltage was used.

On the motherboards side of things an ASUS Crosshair V Formula was used with 4 GB (2x 2 GB) of ADATA memory (1417 MHz). No details such as cooling has been shared, but you can betcha it was sub-zero.

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