14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that a strong system assembly, liquid nitrogen and a lot of nerves of steel were able to push a certain central processing unit from Advanced Micro Devices well above the 7 GHz mark.
Overclocking feats are not exactly news in themselves on the central processing unit market.
Granted, when Intel and AMD first started selling CPUs, they were quite against the idea of end-users playing around with the chips and pushing the clocks above their factory settings.
Still, since popular demand was high, they eventually relented and even set up actual product lines, or whole brands, that were specifically-designed for overclocking.
One of the most powerful and recent of such chips is the Phenom II X4 975BE from Advanced Micro Devices, the second greatest chip maker worldwide, based on Sunnyvale, California.
Said CPU has a base clock of 3.6 GHz for all four of its cores, but it seems that a certain overclocker team in Brazil went far beyond it, even managing to set a new record for AMD chips.
Basically, the frequency was pushed all the way up to 7.13 GHz, specifically 7134.31 MHz.
Of course, as XtremeSystems clearly shows, this feat could not be achieved by any conventional means, at least nothing that the average consumer would see as conventional.
Among high-end users and enthusiasts, there are those that often use water cooling, though many others settle for highly-effective air coolers with many heatpipes.
What the overclockers from Brazil did, however, is not at all close to that, since over 7 GHz requires quite a bit of cooling power.
As such, they called upon the very high effectiveness of liquid nitrogen, though they first had to create their own cooling assembly and be sure to periodically add more of the substance, so as to keep the chip alive.
Any and all photos of the procedure and the team behind the new record can be found here.