Finnish Overclocking Legend SF3D Calls It Quits After 12 Years

We just learned that Petri ‘SF3D’ Korhonen is calling it quits from overclocking. He’s been overclocking a making headlines for over a decade, but is best remembered from AMD’s PR stunt in Las Vegas back in 2009 where Sami Makinen, Sampsa (Sampsa) Kurri, Petri (SF3D) Korhonen, and Pete Hardman used liquid helium to push an AMD Phenom II X4 940 quad-core processor to 6.5GHz. That was the first public event that used liquid helium to take overclocking to unprecedented levels. AMD later used an FX-8150 processor in 2011 with liquid helium to reach a new CPU frequency world record of 8429.38 MHz at 2.016V. This got AMD into the Guinness Book of World Records and it changed overclocking forever!

In a thread over at HWBOT, SF3D posted up some final benchmark results that were from an Intel overclocking event in Sweden. In his fair well post he mentioned that he only had an hour to benchmark his final overclocking setup once he got it setup and dialed in. He made it clear that he wasn’t happy with the results and followed that up by saying the scores will be forgotten in a few days anyway.

“It is not very satisfying result but who cares in the end. These scores and threads are forgot in few days and that is just the way it is.” – SF3D

After that statement he announced his leave from the community.

“This thread will be also my last for a long time if not forever. There is just no more point to loose all the time in life to push scores which will please us overclockers. I feel very pleased and happy when I remember all the events and fun nights with my friends. Life just goes on and after these 12 years of overclocking I have nothing else to achieve. I got all I ever dreamed and even more.” – SF3D

We aren’t sure if there will be any more SF3D/EK LN2 pots, but it looks like another overclocking legend is leaving the scene and we wish him the best of luck in all that he does.