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Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4

Posted by timothy on from the ambitious dept.

sH4RD writes "The 6GHz barrier has been broken by two guys, a little LN2 (liquid nitrogen for those not as chemistry inclined), and an Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) 3.60GHz. Check out some icing and some proof of speed. Better yet take a look at how fast it calculates pi. Also be sure to check out the original announcement."

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  1. Updating Wikipedia Now by rudy_wayne · · Score: 0, Troll


    In the category "Way too much free time on their hands"

  2. Re:Erm... by NetCow · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can't really believe that, unless you ran your hard drive(s) in PIO mode and kept on poking them while running the bootstrap. A dual SMP system has around 85-90% of a processor of the same generation but with double the speed. In your example, two P3/500 should about have matched an 1 GHz P3, and that's *about*. More realistically, they'd have run on par with a 900 MHz P3. There is no *way* that a dual P3/500 system will match an 1 GHz P4, not to speak of your claims of beating an 1.5 GHz P4.

  3. Re:6 GHz is not that impressive. by mobby_6kl · · Score: 1, Troll

    >nearly any other CPU architecture running at 6GHz will muder the P4's

    Good luck getting the G5/Opertron to run at this speed. Hell, even half that speed.

  4. Re:All of that speed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    -1 Flamebait for saying pi is an irrational number? Geez why not mod the guy down for saying two is an even number. Stupid mods.