The first acquaintance with the overclocking potential of phenom II X4 965 Black edition processor on new stepping C3 allowed to assume that improvements in this sphere are measured by hundred of megahertz, and it does not be necessary to speak about the serious breakthrough. At least, if we deal with overlock with the use of air cooling.
On xtremeSystems.org one well-known Japanese enthusiast reported about its overclock experiments of the processor phenom II X2 555 Black edition, based on C3 stepping. According to the author, this model will soon replace the processor phenom II X2 550 Black edition (3.1 GHz).
Under liquid nitrogen the motherboard BioStar on base of AMD 785G chipset overclock this processor to 6467 MHz with 1.92 v. At this frequency, the processor preserved the ability to execute the test super PI 1M.
Max screen shot stable frequencies was 6638 MHz inclusively, whereas the maximum frequency reached was equal to 6700 MHz. Let us note that the processor can unlock two additional core, and it is equipped originally with 6 MB cache in the third level. Related Products :
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