Tech Reaction

Looking back in time we see that Phenom II has been on a saga. If you cannot wait you can watch it now, or you can read the story and then revel that it was digitally transcribed for all time.

At Quakecon 2009 on Saturday #1 rated overclocker K|ngp|n and our own Sami Makinen reached a record 7.088 GHz by overclocking AMD Phenom II on Dragon technology. Also, in front of a live audience we achieved the #3 3DMark06 record and ran the benchmark at a quad-core record of 6.6GHz.

In Las Vegas in January 64NOMIS came prepared with vats of mineral oil with a vision of complete OC immersion. I envisoned a sealed and transparent PC. There were other battles that day so the project was shelved. Until Quakecon in August 2009. With the combination of Schradin’s transparent Phenom Cooler and help from The Nemesis the Abomination came to life. Hours of stable benching with no motherboard preparation.

  The Abomination | Transparent OC Chamber

In Finland in July an overclocking team at an event hosted by SF3D broke the 7GHz barrier on AMD Phenom II X4. Teamwork and concentration yielded this apex result.

Rigorouse work by Macci, chew*, Hardman, MSIMax, Gomeler and many others brought a series of gains in platform performance. Single card records, escalating frequencies, improved GPU tuning, and better DRAM performance.

In Austin K|ngp|n descended to temperatures uncharted with his first Liquid Helium runs. Core speeds hit 6.89Ghz and the 3dMark06 record fell yet again. He was joined by Gomeler, chew*, Schradin, Slappa, and Hardman and AMD’s silicon engineering team for two days solid of overclocking under Xtreme Conditions.

At the birth of Phenom II at CES, in a tent in the Desert, many saw for the first time the massive headroom of Dragon Technology yielding to an undprecedented Liquid Helium run in a first of its kind Experiment.  A record 6.5 GHz top speed for a modern multi-core processor and a 3DMark05 world record set to a cystal clear Las Vegas night is a vivid memory.

Now you can see it all. Together. For the first time. At Light Speed. Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Hf6d404QY