Amd Phenom 9850 Black Edition

 

AMD recently launched the Phenom 9850 Black Edition, a quad core processor with free to choose multiplier and the new B3 Agena revision. Of course, enthusiasts curious to how far they can chip overclocking, around 3 GHz is a lot given final result. In exceptional cases, the processor is a bit further, there are pictures have emerged of a Phenom 9850 Black Edition operating at slightly more than 3.5 GHz.

The system used consisted among other things of a DFI LANParty 790FX-M2R motherboard and water cooling for the processor. With a standard reference clock of 200 MHz formed the Hyper Transport speed and the frequencies on which the controller and Level 3 cache works no problem. Through the freely choose CPU multiplier to a value of 17.5, the frequency of the Phenom 9850 Black Edition at 3.5 GHz.