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P4 2.80GHz Overclocked to 3.917GHz

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the colder-faster-better dept.

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.

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  1. Re:0v3rClox0red by OpCode42 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    *bite*

    Ok, AMD released a 150mhz 486 and Pentiums went up to 200mhz .

    That is all.

  2. Faster than 3.917 by Raetsel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do my eyes deceive me? I doubt it. WCPUID is noting 3998.24 MHz in that picture! (It's most of the way down the page, if you want to see it in context.)

    Wow.

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  3. Imagine a beowulf cluster of those! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!

  4. Re:Its soo cold in finland by Hougaard · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hmmm... How about getting a better calculator:

    25C = 77F
    -25C = -13F

    Celsius is sooo easy.. 0C is freezing point and 100C is boiling point (For water)

  5. ooh! My turn this time. by DirkDaring · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?

  6. Re:Correction by p3d0 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And you don't actually have any retinal "nerves". They're only cells that transmit signals from your eye to your brain.

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    Patrick Doyle
    I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
  7. Re:just picked up a pint of liquid nitrogen by Keith_Beef · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I knew of a chemistry teacher who took a pair of rubber gloves (the kind sold for household chores): he put one on his right hand and filled the other with sausage meat then dipped it into liquid nitrogen. He tucked his left hand up his sleeve and set the meat-filled glove on a wooden board so it looked like he was holding a nail with his left hand. In his right hand, he took a hammer...

    He waited, knowing that his pupils would be arriving for a lesson in a few seconds...

    The pupils arrived...

    "Sit yourselves down while I finish off what I'm doing"...

    CRUNCH! he brought the hammer down on the rubber glove, sending meat-filled glove across the bench.