AMD has shown once and again what the Phenom II architecture is capable of under extreme cooling. We witnessed how the limited edition Phenom II 42 TWKR was capable of 7GHz under liquid helium and since the introduction of the C3 stepping the regular models are closing in on 7GHz and even break it using the more conventional cooling method liquid nitrogen.
Something that seems to help with the overclocking is AMD’s chipsets, which the Korean overclocker namegt has used to his advantage. With the new 890GX motherboard ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3 he managed to push his Phenom II 955 C3 to 7108.3MHz for a CPUZ validation – a new world record with liquid nitrogen.
System specifications:
CPU: Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition C3
Mainboard: ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3
RAM: Samsung PC8500U DDR3 2G
VGA: SAPPHIRE ATI HD4350 256M
HDD: Samsung SATA2 160G
Power: SAPPHIRE PURE 1250W
Cooler: GT LN2 POT
Case: CoolerMaste CL-001-KKN1-GP
OS: Microsoft Windows XP 32Bit
