“For our liquid nitrogen testing we insulated the motherboard with a combination of artist eraser and Vaseline and mounted our K|ngp|n F1EE liquid nitrogen pot on top of the CPU with a dab of Arctic Silver Ceramique for the thermal compound. After pulling the pot down to around -188 Celsius we began our runs starting with 3DMark 2006. We were using a Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P with two Corsair Dominator GT 1866C7 2GB modules, two AMD HD4870x2 video cards at 822MHz core 950MHz memory, and a single Corsair HX1000 PSU powering the entire system. We had to push the vcore up to 1.8v to achieve the following 6.6GHz screen shot on the AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition processor…”Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- A look at the AMD Phenom II TWKR Black Edition @ Neoseeker
- AMD Phenom II TWKR Black Edition Processor @ HotHardware
- AMD TWKR Edition CPU Preview @ OCC
- Changing the Game – A Brief History of CPU’s @ TechwareLabs
- Desktop CPU Comparison Guide Rev. 7.1 2 TechARP
A very unique processor
The AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition does not have a native frequency, simply a default of 2GHz if you pop it in without changing anything in the BIOS. It is a limited edition run specifically designed to be overclocked, hence the tweaker portion of its name. So far Legit Reviews has the top overclock, 6.58GHz on LN and a bus speed of 209MHz. As an added bonus, the testing ended once something horrible happened to the motherboard, you can see a picture on the last page of the review.
