Gulftown hits 6.4GHz

Gulftown hits 6.4GHz

Shamino + LN2 = whole lotta speed




Gulftown isn't due until next year, but the engineering samples are already floating around. Fortunately for the general public, the overclocking legend Shamino got his hands on one of these and decided to see what this beast is capable of.

Shamino used LN2 cooling and managed to hit impressive 6.4GHz (or to be more precise 6.386MHz). Note however that the operating voltage was set to a rather high 2.02V.

The system ran stable with the cores at 5.9GHz, and did one round in 3DMark Vantage Performance with quite an impressive result. The CPU scored 55,177, which to some might not mean much, but you should know that the Performance Profile world record is currently 32,328 points, which puts Intel’s upcoming ace incredible 22,849 points ahead, which is pretty close to double.

Unfortunately for AMD and its newly announced Thuban CPUs, this came just in time to spoil AMD’s announcement fun, not to mention the fact that AMD will have a lot of work to do if Intel’s engineering samples give any indication of the actual performance.

You can check out the results here

very sexy good thing i am waiting on sp1 for win7 by the time that comes out the new cpu should be out and if not... then screw it i am not waiting any longer 

Originally posted by <8) slunK parade prices?

for the top dog, but not the lower clocked 6 cores.

Edited by justin.kerr - 14 Jan 2010 at 9:31pm

We got Gulftown in! =]

We'll find out soon bud. I'll let you know.

Originally posted by justin.kerr Thanks! I will have one soon, couple months, lol but I will have a Xeon version,  and that is your hint Kyu

 

alright in a hurry to get off work now, don't know what's worst going home to my girl or hitting traffic, or get stuck with both.

I know its off topic but will DSO be picking up the Muskin 12GB (4GBx3) kits?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010170147%201052129233%201052346982&name=12GB%20%283%20x%204GB%29

There is the link to the 2 kits.

Oh I know that, the reason I asked was because that would allow for the Video rendering people have 12gb without stressing the CPU too much.  At least thats what one would hope.

or NVIDIA's CUDA

Originally posted by Alex Gulftown has amazing thermal properties! We're stressing 12 threads at 4.3GHz on AIR and were seeing 46'C on the CPU on full load running an Intel air cooler!

 

Edited by Kyu - 25 Jan 2010 at 5:58pm

Originally posted by justin.kerr  no your not.

 

Originally posted by justin.kerr no lol I mean't DS is not running a gulftown at 4.3Ghz with 46C load temps on an Intel cooler.

Oh lol !

what program are you using for temps? I imagine its a glitch in the temp program

thats going to be way off, try realtemp... I have only seen 30 or so hexacores on air,  I have a good idea what the temps are for given OC.

The MB sensor for for the CPU reports the cores in an constant update.  they usually for me were very accurate when compared with HWmonitor.

mine does..