Maximum Overclock | Anatomy of a Guinness World Record
In my spare time I coach an overclocking team and win Guinness World Records.
I can say that now. But one hour before we actually broke the record, failure loomed before us. We were questioning everything, nothing work working. 8.15GHz was a long, long way from the dream. To break the world record. To smash a world record. Linearly, everything looked great. Frequency scaling, voltage tolerance, precendent with Phenom II all pointed in the right direction. But we were hitting a hard wall and we wondered if we had plateued. Had we made these chips too cold? Asked too much of Helium and Silicon?
But we had not, in fact, we had just begun. The moment of discovery. That AMD FX was the processor that can. That would. And will again.
No one understands the difficulty of making this happen in a moment, at the right moment, better than those who made it happen. Sami Maekinen, Brian Mclachlan, Pete Hardman, Aaron Schradin are the best of the best. Their work and their results stand alone.
Read my AMD blog online or see the miracle unfold…
