The Silver sets Sempron 140 record in wPrime - 1024m benchmark

It's been a whole month since we last covered single-core CPU records. Back then, I noted that Xeon processors had largely dominated this category.

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It seems French overclocker The Silver heard my words, as he snatched gold in the wPrime - 1024m discipline using the once-popular AMD Sempron 140.

By the way, we have a review of this processor on our site. It's a shame it's from 2010 and can't boast much relevance today, but that's how it goes.

Back to the record-breaker.

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To achieve a time of 12 minutes, 58 seconds, and 672 milliseconds, The Silver pushed the Sempron 140 to an astonishing 5967MHz at 1.744 volts (according to CPU-z). The processor's multiplier is locked, meaning the overclock was achieved solely by increasing the bus frequency.

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This result is remarkably close to the maximum possible overclock of 6223MHz.

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The processor was cooled using liquid nitrogen, and the record-breaking test bench consisted of the following components:

• The surprisingly common GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD3P motherboard for the AMD AM3 platform

• A single 1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 RAM stick

• A 1000-watt Seasonic power supply

The graphics card used to secure the gold remains unknown. Most likely, a low-power placeholder like a GT710 or HD7730 was used.

Source: Result page on HWBot