Skulltrail hits 6GHz
Kingpin does eight core blimeys
FUGGER, THE CHISELED statuesque hunk that runs Xtreme Systems has sent us another milestone. Kingpin hit 6GHz with a Skulltrail box. Experts agree this is almost enough to run Crysis at a decent frame rate.
Seriously though, this is not an easy thing to do, Skulltrail has two sockets making the overclock orders of magnitude harder than most machines. It doesn't take much more than a chimp to OC one socket nowadays, but two is quite tough for the best of them.
To make matters more interesting, he got the FSBs, both of them, to more than 1700MHz. More than anything, this is a testament to the inherent goodness of the Seaburg chipset, it is driving eight cores at notably higher than it's rated speed.
The only downside? 1.953v, a tad higher than the 'recommended' settings. Don't try this at home kiddies, it is for professionals only. Smoking $1500+ CPUs is not for the faint of heart. µ
Comments
Bee M Love with You.
1700 Mhz/S approaches Traditional Upper Limit of Single interconnects in Digital Computing, Yet this is Today & 50 years Latter.Good God all without Dr. Freeze. Mask of Final Potential is beginning New Spectakular Dance. Its Size that Keeps Weave Woven, here, Plus Distances Between Cores that Allows Circulating Rest. of sorts.
as Edgar Allan POE (also founder of: Peace On Earth society) in Baltimores' 1843 publication stated: Trail of Skulls is Short.
Yet: Here something Very Powerful Has Occured. First you need memory that can withstand withering, Blistering 1.7 ghz/s Core. Do that GDDR5 & Blasts of Ohio Blast Furnance, Glas Galore. Eva I'd Humble my self for microsecond & give moment of Silence. GOOD SHOW;amd.
T. von Drashek
Opps Agin, Call in Dr. Freeze.
Yeah, AMD Shurely don't make any $1,500 goober. This should go much higher in Cold room, as Intel just dosn't have GUTS AMD Does.What was I thinking, I love Pirates. AMD could do same at 1/3 less speed at 1/6 Cost. Yeah AMD. As example 1,700 fsb is probably mere 200 mhz/s or less? core, just over hypeing itself. Yet large parameter of Data Flow & Refreash give intel room with parallelism to make grotesque mistakes & keep on chugging, an Intel mistake, NOT Mine.
Must of GOT Too Enthuseulaed.
Theres Reason AMD Don't Make TV Remote Chips, its too simple.
Stewie drashek
for love of god
please silent the drashek'zParallelism
OK, I just installed 8.5 gb of Ultimate updates, thats: theinquirer links of yesterday, language packs & all else, so i've been bit weary & have 11 partitions in all before weekend is thru,2GO. so i shut up & await brains to refresh.Heres reason skulltrail can go so fast & Quality products stay within specific parameters. Intel Over Uses Parallelism, Way Too Much.
In Past Intel parallelsim Was Poorly Done, Meaning end results did NOT Match, yet only need one line to get thru check point, However, those Other Jumbled Messes Really Slow Processing down, as mess has to go somewhere, Out Z gate Dump.
Now Intel has much better Handle on Parallelism & so Processor is much more stable, yet it is one thread thru one line, others are just nice harmonic Redundant Function. So Great, It Runs REALLY, REALLY Fast. Yet all those extra unneeded parallel lines are needless & have been explore by AMD & Others already.
Put already into Dedicated Serial useages within CPU. That makes CPU Better Crafted, Yet Slower sustained average.
It also Means NO Matter What, Well Built CPU will have to Stay at its rated speed, Speed it up & some of needed Serial intergrations will fail, with NO Backup Parallels to hedge upon. Slow it down & other Serial lines Break down in: well Engineered Processor,Its just how such unique lines work.
Again Harmonies just conflict, Except at speed engineered for. When Run at Just Right Speed Everythin Runs Per Fectly, Just like any balanced Dynamic Machine, NOT Hacknyed endless line of sameness, real True Unique & Meaningful Events that guide Processing to perfect Pitch & better output.
So Intels quest for Speed is bit of Play on Poor Quality. Sure Parallel CPU, in its infancy looks better as all those Serialized tranistor gates are yet to be developed,
However:NOW That Billions of Tranistors are Norm, its HOW You USE Them That Rules Efficient Power Computer Requirements. Don't I wish for three times power right now, yet having cpu that can multi task like bonkers is Great thing, hardly even notice parsing, at all. Its real Life Score that counts, NOT Just One Rocket Blast.
Stewie drashek
In reference
wat.What?
Judging by your dysfunctional literary skills, you might want to focus more on education and less on comments in tech sites. Skull Trail is far too advanced for your poetic mind to grasp. Try not to only read the specs before making comments. Instead, try getting similar hardware and then come express a clear point of view.get it right
It's Hz not hz, meaning per second.Hz/s is per second per second, wtf is that? A of rate of change of frequency...
What??
Is Drashek retarded?Ban babelfish translations
I think what's happening is that asian (or other non-english speaking visitor) is using an online translator to post, and as we all know these translators confuse the hell out of everyone.@comments
Do you guys ( yup, the three of you with the article comments ) have a clue about overclocking, and generally what you're talking about ?Uhm...
I think he forgot to take his medicine... or should I say THEY forgot to take it...we love drashek don`t we?
In spite of claiming we want him gone, I believe we all read drashek's posts in a compulsive way.My head hurts..
Too many late nights
Too many late nights, bad coffee and screen fatigue....English was never meant to be tweaked this far.
I'm sure he doesn't comb his hair....way too slow.
6ghz? Who cares...
I don't care much about SkullTrail reaching 6ghz for many reasons...1) Synthetic Benchmarks do not reflect real world performance.
2) You can OC all you want, but a processor always acts on what is put in memory. The memory that processors deal with are Registers, Cache and System Memory, while the video card processor deal with Video Memory.
Increasing the memory speed is more important than increasing core clock speed. If a game is not CPU bound, increasing the CPU speed is not important and won't yield performance in that game....
However, since games require a lot of instructions being handled continuously by memory......OCing System and Video Ram actually will improve your framerate more than increasing the CPU speed. In fact, I rather increase the GPU core speed and memory speed.
This is a fact I have ascertained from studying processor technology and overclocking many systems,
The only reason one would OC to 6ghz is to throw in endless synthetic programs that throw tests to fill your registers up and give you a HIGHER number for complete something in the lowest amount of time, but no access to any real data of what is truly going on in the processor....
How many programs exist that require 8 cores and how do you do a full system test? And...how do you make sure the test is being executed correctly when all you get is a number for a result.....and no actual data.
Sorry, I don't count completing something in 3 seconds.....as "Actual Performance Data" Im more interested in how the processor handles a situation when it needs more registers than what it has and how fast the alternation is taking data from L1 and L2 cache and moving it back and forth to the registers.
Smoking_Mo
what's Mo? is it some new drug on the market?you really should stop smoking it...
@neko
Silence him? This is the first time I've ever actually agreed with him. Part of that is that I usually have no idea what he's talking about, but still. ;)Hmmmm
What part of the first two comments actually makes any sense? Come on ppl!Gaming isn't everything!
The point of OCing to 6GHz isn't about throwing countless synthetic benches at it, it's more about pushing the components to their highest points, finding where the bottleneck is, and hit the number that you want to hit whilst getting around said bottleneck. Sure you can get higher fps by cutting CL timing and increasing vid mem feq. but it isn't always about gaming! Increasing mem clocks and feq. isn't going to do jack for transcoding video, or multitasking 8 different encoding processes at once. Sometimes you just need more processing power!