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P4 2.2GHz Overclocked to 3.5GHz
GraveD sent linkage to a site
explaining how a homemade nitrogen cooling system
overclocked a P4
from 2.2Ghz to an incredible 3.5ghz. There's plenty of stuff
to poke at over there. Update: 01/17 20:42 GMT by T : boaworm writes: "According to this paper, the Finnish geeks have successfully oveclocked a Pentium 4 to 3675 Mhz. They claim it is a new World Record, and it sure looks like they beaten another O/C'd Pentium 4 submitted earlier today on slashdot. (Summary in English in the end)."
That leaves me feeling warm and fuzzy inside.
In the other news, the largest ship in the world Titanic that was named unsinkable, has sunk.
Comments by the CEO: -Well, you can take it both ways, really, we are defining what Unsinkable really means! The other ship building companies in our field are looking up to us to be half as unsinkable as we are. It's great, really, how our compain brings the best out of this situation.
"We believe the market effect of the 'Unsinkable' campaign raises the unsinkability bar and therefore improves unsinkability overall, both in forcing us to live up to the statement, and forcing others in the industry to begin to do the same," wrote Bruce Ismay. "If our unsinkability today is imperfect but better than the competition, and if customers make a buying decision based on that criteria, than in the long term you will see all products in the market improve."
You can't handle the truth.
Admittedly, but COME ON Dave, it's just not CATCHY. Slogans are often misleading or linguistically incorrect. Here is a list of "catchy slogans" that are either also false, irrelevant, or just silly enough just to point out.
Slogan [Product/Firm]
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Which means a C2 system with no network access, at Fort Meade and all their couter-measures, and a pack of rapid, hungry hyenas sitting around it in a New York stuido sized apartment.
Yea, we understand what these marketing slogans mean. Unfortunately, nobody has lived up to one yet.
I dunno... I think Larry could take Bill.
Larry looks more than a little like The Rock in this photo. Ever notice how you never see both The Rock and Ellison together at the same time? Hmmm? Coincidence? Perhaps not.
Attributed to osiris@halcyon.halcyon.com (J.David Ruggiero)
Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion.
My house should have between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.
Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the one I am currently living in. Make sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my current house (the floor of my kitchen vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don't have nearly enough insulation in them).
As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance costs as low as possible. This should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl, or composite siding. (If you choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in detail.)
Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.
To insure that you are building the correct house for our entire family, make certain that you contact each of our children, and also our in-laws. My mother-in-law will have very strong feelings about how the house should be designed, since she visits us at least once a year. Make sure that you weigh all of thses options carefully and come to the right decision. I, however, retain the right to overrule any choices that you make.
Please don't bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop the overall plans for the house: get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be choosing the color of the carpet. However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.
Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, however, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.
While you are designing this house specifically for me, keep in mind that sooner or later I will have to sell it to someone else. It therefore should have appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers. Please make sure before you finalize the plans that there is a consensus of the population in my area that they like the features this house has.
I advise you to run up and look at my neighbor's house he constructed last year. We like it a great deal. It has many features that we would also like in our new home, particularily the 75-foot swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this into our new house without impacting the final cost.
Please prepare a complete set of blueprints. It is not necessary at this time to do the real design, since they will be used only for construction bids. Be advised, however, that you will be held accountable for any increase of construction costs as a result of later design changes.
You must be thrilled to be working on as an interesting project as this! To be able to use the latest techniques and materials and to be given such freedom in your designs is something that can't happen very often. Contact me as soon as possible with your complete ideas and plans.
PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the instructions I've given you in this letter. As architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences. I have tried in the past and have been unable to accomplish this. If you can't handle this responsibility, I will have to find another architect.
PPS: Perhaps what I need is not a house at all, but a travel trailer. Please advise me as soon as possible if this is the case.
"Hello, helpdesk? I need to edit the Oracle config files, and I forgot the Oracle user's unix password."
"Hello, helpdesk? Brad Pitt's a friend of mine and will go out with you if you give me the root password for the Oracle box."
..."unbreakable" doesn't really mean unbreakable, or something...
Oracle said that 9i "is unbreakable". As President Clinton could easily tell you, the key word here is 'is'.
When I used to use Oracle it was unbreakable. The only people who had complete access was the DBA and some guy named Scott Tiger....
Dude. Overclocking with a super-cooling system is sooo 1999!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
...it just might be able to take the Slashdotting!
If I put my Athlon in the microwave, I can get numbers out of it that don't exist in nature.
This tagline is umop apisdn.
homemade nitrogen cooling system overclocked a P4 from 2.2Ghz to an incredible 3.5ghz.
Quick tip on "overclocking" from Ghz (Gigahertz) to ghz (gravity hertz): Throw your machine out the window. To get to decent speeds, you'll want to be at least on the 4th floor or above.
(Alternate tip: to perceptively increase GHz, throw the Windows out of your machine)
Son, do we need to remind you exactly how little power one needs to factor primes?
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I think these guys are getting dangerously close to cause irreparable harm to the universe as discussed here.
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
Pretty much all you have to do to set overclocking records in Finland is put a jacket on and open a window.
That's what the "Turbo" button on the front of your case is for.
You do have a Turbo button, right...
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Evan "What else has disappeared from PCs that I never noticed?" E.
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
Why don't you guys ever have any articles on underclocking? Are underclockers really that bad? What are some of the advantages of underclocking?
- Underclock a 2.0GHz to 1.0Ghz, and you can throw away your CPU fan.
- Underclock to 500MHz and you can get rid of your case fan.
- Underclock to 4.77Mhz and you can run older versions of Fligh Simulator.
- Underclock to 4.0 MHz and you can pretend you are running a Z80.
- Underclock too 100KHz and you can actually watch your instructions exeecute.