Unityofsaints and Bones secure gold medals pushing Phenom II X3 720 BE to 5967 and 6095 MHz

Australian unityofsaints and American Bones recently took first place in the SuperPi - 32M and SuperPi - 1M disciplines, respectively. Both overclockers achieved these records using a fairly old triple-core AMD Phenom II X3 720 BE processor.

To take the SuperPi - 32M crown, unityofsaints overclocked the chip to 5967 MHz, completing the mathematical benchmark in 12 minutes, 4 seconds, and 110 milliseconds:

The enthusiast's test setup included:

• Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD7;

• RAM: CORSAIR Dominator GT;

• Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 (GK208).

Here's what it looked like:

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Notably, the Australian didn't deactivate any processor cores, sticking to the usual Windows XP operating system optimizations for this discipline.

Bones, on the other hand, first disabled one of the Phenom II X3 720 BE's three cores, which, in theory, slightly simplified the task, as his processor hit a significant 6095 MHz.

Liquid nitrogen served as the cooling system, helping the overclocker successfully complete the SuperPi - 1M benchmark in 11 seconds, 328 milliseconds:

Bones's test setup consisted of:

• Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R3.0;

• Graphics card: GeForce 7900 GT.

Here's what it looked like:

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Sources: Results pages for Bones and Unityofsaints