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P4 2.80GHz Overclocked to 3.917GHz
vwbus writes "The guys at Muropaketti have taken a brand new Pentium 4 2.80GHz chip, bought a pint or so of liquid nitrogen and overclocked it to an astounding 3.917GHz. The Finns describe how they put together the system on their web page, and luckily there are a whole set of pictures which demonstrate exactly what they've done, so you don't need to understand Finnish to figure it out. The pictures show wisps of nitrogen evaporating from the jar sitting on top of the CPU, and they publish some SiSoft figures to demonstrate the kind of speeds they attained."
The folks at Muropaketti have had a lot of practice with this cooling method.
It looks cool. Yeah, that CPU will last about a day. Thermal stresses will destroy that cpu very shortly. Also, the P4's have huge #s of pipeline-stages that result in LOWER cycle efficiency that older models and comparable AMD chips. Wintel has the folks suckered into thinking higher GHz == faster. Nyet! Sun's chips exec instrs alot more efficiently that intel's; the exact numbers escape me, but i remember 250 MHz Ultrasparcs being hella fast.
BTW, does this mean 1000 fps in Quake3?
The biggest trick the devil pulled was letting lawyers become politicians so they can write the laws.
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Oh wait... but by the way, I do believe that probably 95%+ of the slashdot crowd doesn't read Finnish and are going to just look at the pretty pictures, just like the posting suggested.
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...what these guys could do with an old 386...
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
Go with the feeling, you're not the first post.