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The user even managed to capture a screenshot at this frequency, and even if the overclock isn’t stable enough to run any benchmarks, dropping the clock speed by just 40MHz (2470MHz) resolves these issues.

The overclock was achieved using an FX-8130P eight-core AMD Bulldozer processor that was installed on an Asus CrossHair V Formula motherboard. The memory modules used were manufactured by Kingston and have a default frequency of 2333MHz.

From what we know at this point in time, the FX-8130P is supposed to be AMD’s fastest desktop Bulldozer CPU as it features eight processing cores that are run at a base frequency of 3.8GHz.

Depending on the load placed on its cores, the chip can increase its frequency up to 4.2GHz thanks to AMD’s Turbo Core 2.0 technology.

In addition to the four Bulldozer modules, the FX-8130P also includes 8MB of Level 2 cache memory and 8MB of L3 cache as well as an integrated dual-channel memory controller that supports DDR3-1866 modules.

At this year’s Computex fair, AMD has officially announced that the first Zambezi FX processors, based on the Bulldozer architecture, aren’t expected to arrive until later this summer, in August or September.

Before the news was made official, various reports suggested that AMD is having trouble with the performance of its Bulldozer architecture, as the first chip revisions functioned at lower than expected frequencies.

The delay won’t affect the Opteron 6200 processors based on the Interlagos architecture, which were demoed recently by AMD and pair together two CPU dies in the same packaging to form 12-core and 16-core Bulldozer CPUs for the server market.

Earlier this week, the same user posted a series of screenshots and a video of the same setup running at 5.1GHz using only air cooling. (via OBRovsky Blog)