14 DAY TRIAL // iBuyPower has decided to make some profit from the recent world record achieved by AMD with its 8429MHz running Bulldozer-based FX-8150 CPU that made a lot headlines yesterday, and partnered with the Sunnyvale-based company to build a desktop system that uses the same core hardware components as the record holder
The machine was showcased just recently by Darren Su, Executive VP of iBuyPower, and is housed inside a massive red case.
On the inside users will be greeted by an Asus Crosshair V Formula motherboard built around AMD's 990FX chipset which is paired with some fast Corsair Dominator GT memory and an FX-8150 processor.
To all of these, iBuyPower has added a series of other hardware that hasn't found its way into the benching system pushed by the overclockers to 8429MHz such as a Radeon HD 6970 graphics card and a solid state drive.
The AMD CPU is of course the star of the show as it comes with eight processing cores clocked at 3.6GHz (can reach up to 4.2GHz in Turbo mode), 8MB of level 3 cache and, as it proved yesterday, an impressive overclocking potential.
To put things into perspective, in an interview with Sami Mäkinen, one of the overclockers involved in the world record setting experiments, published earlier today by Nordic Hardware, the enthusiast said that all the chips he tested were able to hit at least 7.8GHz under LN2.
More importantly, he was able to reach speeds surpassing 5GHz (CPU-Z stable) using only air and sub-$100 water cooling solutions.
iBuyPower hasn't provided the press with a release date or a price for their system, and just said that the machine will be available for sale "shortly."
Before heading out to search for one of these desktops, please keep in mind that the liquid helium, or the skills, required for establishing world records won't be supplied together with the system. (via Bright Side of News)