Whenever a new processor line gets released by Intel or AMD, the enthusiasts are usually the first to pick them up. As well as enjoying the increased stock performance, many also decide to overclock their chip to see how much extra performance can be squeezed out. However, anyone who has overclocked a Sandy Bridge processor [...]
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Poor AMD. Cray has decided to build its next generation of supercomputers around Intel’s Xeon chips. Cray’s previous line was built around AMD’s Opteron processor, which was introduced in 2003, but AMD’s latest quad-core chip — the.... Read Post
AMD says it has set a new record for the "highest frequency of a computer processor" by overclocking its 8-core AMD FX desktop processor. The chip had a top speed of 8.429 gigahertz on August 31. The previous record was 8.308 GHz. Read Post
Several tests find Ivy Bridge processors to run much hotter than second-generation Sandy Bridge chips when significantly overclocked. Read Post