Phenom 9850 Black Edition hits 3.7GHz on water

Andreas G · Guest

In the absence of its real enthusiast processor series, better known as FX, AMD has launched a couple of Black Editions of its regular Phenom and Athlon 64 X2 processors. The latest is Phenom 9850 Black Edition which, like all Black Editions, has en unlocked multiplier. Phenom 9850BE was launched when AMD decided to unleash its B3 stepping and it does overclock slightly better than the preceding 9600BE, but maybe not as much as most were expecting. Reviewers had a hard time getting to 3.0GHz, fewer managed to get it stable. In the hands of Polish overclocker Milans, Phenom 9850BE reached new heights.

Milans's water cooling may look a bit "home-made", but it sure gets the job done with some ice to assist. The motherboard was a DFI LanParty DK 790FX-M2RS. He had to use a Vcore of 1.48V to reach 3710MHz (17.5x212).

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Delph1 · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the tip Dan Smile

//Andreas
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fackamato · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:57 am Post subject:

Is this the highest OC seen yet?

Superpi!!
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fackamato · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:10 am Post subject:

What! My Penryn at 2.4ghz does SuperPi 1m in 20 seconds! This is 1300 MHz more and it's slower! What deuce?
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Mean Machine · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:

That's actually not at all bad for an AMD CPU. Really impressive, to be honest.
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