phenom II x3 720 hits 4.2GHz on air

[tastegw]

The guys at Xtremesystems forum have managed to overclock the $140 three-core AMD Phenom X3 720 all the way to 4.2GHz. They even got the CPU-Z 3.0 validator to second the score.


The guys used Gigabytes GA-MA790GP-DS4H, an AMD 790GX based motherboard, and set the multiplier to 21 and bus speed to 200MHz. Going over 4.2GHz is really an awesome score, especially if you take into account the relatively low price of the platform. The rest of this OC beast included 2x2g OCZ Gold modules doing 5-5-5-15 2.1v @ 1066, PC P&C 750, 2 X hd4850 512mb, OCZ Vindicator, 36gig Raptor,Benq DL DVD burner.

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pretty sweet, just by raising the multi up to 21 they wer able to obtain this clock.

 

[PuRpLeSmUrF]

Obviously this overclocker, known as chew* on the forum, likes OCZ but his second machine does have an Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz so he still likes Intel too.

What are they talking about? Is that a typo that ment to say AMD?

 

[tastegw]

What are they talking about? Is that a typo that ment to say AMD?

lol, nice catch

i like ocz too!

 

[PuRpLeSmUrF]

Lol, he got that thing to 4.3 on air...that is sweet
CPU-Z Validator 3.0

 

[ricanflow]

This means 4.5ghz on water....gurusan needs to look at this.

 

[hikaricloud]

Crap, now I really want it.

 

[PuRpLeSmUrF]

He got it to 5ghz and then did a superpi stable at 4.7 ghz on dry ice.

Phenom II X3 720 BE taken to 4.3GHz on Air! :: TweakTown

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

I think I will wait till the newer dual core with 6mb of L3 comes out.

 

[gurusan]

Highest stable speed he got was 3.6ghz?

 

[Hampton]

I could get my 6000 brisbane to 3.6 or more if it were liquid cooled, but stablity counts really, so I keep it stable @ 3.25 on air.