AMD Athlon II X2 250: Ale Belo Set 5 Records

Italian overclocker ale belo has now earned five gold medals in the AMD Athlon II X2 250 category, a popular dual-core chip from the past.

First up, a rendering benchmark. In Cinebench - R11.5, the enthusiast managed to maintain the chip's frequency at 5925 MHz, achieving a score of 3.41 points:

This processor doesn't have an unlocked multiplier, so overclocking is achieved solely by increasing the base clock, which in this case was pushed to an impressive 395 MHz!

Next is a record in the less popular PiFast discipline. Here, the chip's frequency was increased to 6015 MHz, resulting in a time of 20 seconds and 20 milliseconds:

The Italian secured his third gold in SuperPi - 1M. The Athlon II X2 250's frequency remained at 6015 MHz, achieving a result of 13 seconds and 297 milliseconds:

The overclocker then tackled the more challenging SuperPi - 32M and, at the same 6015 MHz processor frequency, achieved a result of 11 minutes, 53 seconds, and 375 milliseconds:

Finally, ale belo clinched first place in the toughest version of the wPrime benchmark, wPrime - 1024m. The chip's frequency remained at the familiar 6015 MHz, posting a time of 6 minutes, 25 seconds, and 46 milliseconds:

Unfortunately, the Italian only specified the motherboard used for this benchmark session: a GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5. On the other hand, if you're looking to replicate or surpass these results, you already have the most crucial piece of information (RAM, GPU, and PSU don't play a significant role; the main challenge is finding the aforementioned motherboard and painstakingly binning a strong CPU sample).

He also cooled the chip with a liquid nitrogen pot and used an optimized version of Windows XP SP3 as the operating system.

Source: Enthusiast's profile on HWBot

Ale Belo set five records with the AMD Athlon II X2 250 processor

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