Today at a press meeting AMD showed off the upcoming Phenom II X4 processors
running at stock and overclocked speeds. While we can't share all the
deatils quite yet, we can report the impressive overclocking we saw on these
first 45nm CPUs. On air cooling, clock speeds nearing 4.0 GHz were shown but
the really impressive overclocks were with liquid nitrogen: over 6.0 GHz!!

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Quote: "The first leaks were that the Phenom II could hit 4 GHz on air
cooling alone, though we obviously wonder how extreme that air cooling is.
Well today AMD had some actual demonstrations at their gathering, and the
Phenom II was able to hit 5 GHz at 1.6v by using dry ice cooling. Dry ice
is CO2, and it goes directly from solid to gas (sublimation) at a
temperature of -109.3 F (-78.5C for the rest of the world) at 1 atmosphere.
So with some pretty extreme cooling (non-LN) the Phenom II does show that it
has some legs in the clock speed department."

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Ryan Shrout
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