Quote:Pentium 4 overclocked to 8GHz: let's see your fancy Core 2 try that

Back in the olden days, before Abraham Lincoln put an end to the megahertz myth -- or was it Theodore Roosevelt, wee always get so confused -- the Pentium 4 ruled the land, with its deep instruction pipeline and PR-friendly xtreem clock speeds. Luckily, Intel wised up and started beefing up the quantity and efficiency of cores instead of just the megahertz, but the megahertz myth still lives on in our hearts, and OC Team Italy keeps that hope alive with its latest achievement: an 8000MHz (8GHz in layman's terms) overclocked Pentium 4. The lucky chip to reach such ridiculous frequencies is a "Cedar Mill" Intel Pentium 4 631, with a standard clock speed of 3GHz. It wasn't just a case of flipping a few pins here and there, the OC folks used a modified ASUS P5B motherboard, with an added copper pipe and a few voltage modifications, along with a little bit of your garden-variety liquid nitrogen to keep it all cool. Golf claps all around, OC, now can you do something to rev up a processor that's actually going to be useful for something? Wait. What's gotten into us? Keep up the good work!

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/penti...e-2-try-t/

whao :rolleyes:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:liquid nitrogen to keep it all cool.

that's crazy

man that must be a fast comp

Well mine can clock 600 mhz lol try and do better than that hahaha i know that is slow.

^^Hahaha, my old computer was a 533MHz - in fact, I secretly upgraded it a year ago (now it's a Athlon X2 4200+).  My parents wouldn't have let me, obviously...

Meh, I still have my Pentium 200MHz :)

well this computer is killing me and it is going to be refreshing to get a nice 2+ ghz proccesor, and over 1 gb of ram.

i think the comp i use is 800mhz I'm not really sure

michaelp Wrote:i think the comp i use is 800mhz I'm not really sure

Start » Run » dxdiag
Quickest method to check your system stats.

I have 9 functioning PC's.
PD  2.7ghz (WinXP)
P4 2.66ghz (Slackware)
P4 1.3ghz (Laptop) - (XP/Backtrack)
P3 633mhz (Debian/Backtrack/XP)
P3 500mhz (win2k)
P1 233mhz (win98)
P1 166mhz (Laptop) - (win95)
P1 166mhz (win95)
and I still have my first PC, an IBM Personal System 2, 286. 33mhz and 8mb of RAM I believe. (DOS 6.22)
And parts to build at least 2 more...
I'll post pics if you call bullchocolate.
I know I'm a geek, shut up.

On Topic:
Have you seen that movie "Pi", about the mathematician?
Once I took apart an old rotary telephone and used the wires to extend an old Socket 7 into my freezer. I tried to overclock a 133mhz to 533mhz and it died instantly. I was mad, but I deserved it for being retarded.