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AMD A8-3870K Breaks 6GHz

News Editor: Tony Le Bourne Date: 02-02-2012 [ Print | 4 comment(s) ] Discuss in Forums

Overclocker Christian Ney, member of HWBOT breaks 6GHz using AMD's Llano architecture with all cores enabled.

The AMD A8-3870K unlocked APU broke the 6GHz barrier under sub-zero conditions with all cores enabled. The final speed of 6067.7MHz was achieved via a base clock of 258.2MHz over a 47x multiplier. The memory used was Geil Corsa EVO which hit 3505 MHz, just shy of a world record. The motherboard used was the GIGABYTE A75-UD4H. The CPUZ validation was rejected likely due to the system appearing way out of spec.

The CPUZ validation.

Sub-zero overclocking in action.

Source via TPU

Tagged as: amd, apu, llano, fm1, overclocking, hwbot

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AMD A8-3870K Breaks 6GHz

Seraph82

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#23072 Posted on: 02.02.2012 22:14:40

Very nice indeed, still wondering about these little gems, trouble is, no reviews seem to say if performance is really any better overclocked than it would be at stock, I've seen someone with one of these at 4.7Ghz on air cooling before now, but he never answered my question

AMD A8-3870K Breaks 6GHz

I3R0K3N7FEET

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#23074 Posted on: 02.02.2012 22:22:31

Ive asked for a review sample but no responce. Im keen to see how these perform too in everyday clocked situations.

I would need a ram upgrade to take advantage of the gpu too. Considering these are about £100 they should offer good value considering youre getting a semi decent discrete level graphics on a semi decent quad core.

AMD A8-3870K Breaks 6GHz

Tevion

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#23130 Posted on: 04.02.2012 09:46:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by I3R0K3N7FEET

would be good to see a review of this, that is some record

AMD A8-3870K Breaks 6GHz

I3R0K3N7FEET

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#23147 Posted on: 05.02.2012 00:18:27

some etailers are listing pre overclocked builds at a conservative 3.5ghz this could be due to still having no accurate way to record or monitor temps or other reasons as ive seen regular stable clocks hitting 4.4ghz let alone some people hitting 4.7+ on air.