NordicHardware have some fun with Athlon FX-processors

Our own overclocking guru Robert “Crotale” Kihlberg has earlier displayed his potential in among other our Swedish Performance championship where he claimed the number one spot in the percentage category last year. Now Robert has acquired a couple of AMD Athlon 64 FX-processors and this time the percentage has no importance, only the maximum frequency and performance. The main event is of course the all new Athlon 64 FX-57 which is right now installed in i Robert’s test sytem and is sweating like there is no tomorrow. Waiting for a complete review of the FX-57 Robert has done some tests with air cooling and the results are quite impressive.

The poor processor has been pushed up to 3168MHz where it managed to complete one round of SuperPi M1 and boot at 3273MHz for a screenshot. With only air cooling this is a quite impressive result very few has accomplished. We should perhaps add that Robert is planning on tsting with both water and phase change later on. We will tell you more later on, but below you will find a small preview.

– Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI
– AMD FX-57 (0512)
– 2x256Mb Mushkin BH-5
– Asus 6600GT
– OCZ PowerStream 520W
– Cooling: Thermatake Tower 112 with 2xDelta 80x80x38
– Room temp: 22C

3 x Athlon 64 FX (2st FX-55, 1st FX-57)

Serious air cooling for serious overclocking

SuperPI 1M stable frequency

Maximum frequency on air