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Pentium 4 Overclocked to 7.1GHz, Sets World Record
Netmonger writes "This Japanese guy
overclocked a Pentium 4 to 7.132GHz!! The system managed to calculate pi to 1 million decimal places in 18.516 seconds, setting the world's record." The article notes that a Pentium 4 had been overclocked faster earlier this year, but at that speed it was not possible for the machine to function beyond BIOS. Of course, they'd yet to try diverting power from the dilthium crystal reactor to the deflector array.
Does it run... OSX86 ?
Retep Vosnul
Getting ready for DNF?
or:
Couldn't get Vista Beta to boot?
I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow...
Paste all the numbers here for verification please.
Calculating Pi is good...but what FPS can it do in Battlefield 2?
Overclocking experiment results in largest single release of thermal energy in Japan since 1945.
Casualty figures as yet unknown.
For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
why siberia's permafrost is melting @_@
What ? Me, worry ?
The maximum speed at which he could boot Windows XP operating system and perform memory testing was 6.60GHz.
Funny, since, no matter how fast I OC a Windows XP box, the XP "loading bar" still moves the same old speed.
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Good job they didn't try that on an original Pentium, what with all those decimal places...
Now we know why Apple switched to Intel! I can't wait for a PowerBook running one of these, complete with the Ghostbusters-style backpack pumping liquid nitrogen to my laptop!
Yeah, maybe, but they could really get some serious overclocking done if they just reversed the polarity.
that x86 would never hit 100MHz!
I'll be missing "nah, that's just megahertz myth".
Wouldn't it be easier to switch to Linux or BSD rather than having to resort to this just to run Microsoft's next OS with SuperClippy 10.0?
About 18.516 seconds by the looks of things
Spock: Our ship's computer is running too slow. I project we will collide with the Klingon cruiser in 2.3 minutes.
Bones: You green blooded sonofabitch.
Kirk: Bones... shut... up... Scotty, I need 7ghz... now.
Scotty: I canna do it, cap'n. It'll blow the mains, and Windows 9000 will crash.
Kirk: No... excuses... Scotty... just get me... 7ghz.
Scotty (resigned): Aye, cap'n.
Uruha: We're getting in a signal for Starfleet Command. It's Admiral Gates.
Kirk: Put... him... on...
Admiral Gates: Here at Microsoft we believe in innovation. Thus we are sending you SP23482378485847825727347198874741 which will allow Windows 9000 to interact with an overclocked Pentium without making rude sounds and the voice of the computer changing from Majel Barrett to Carrot Top. Let me demonstrate.
Spock: Admiral Gates, it appears that your demonstration computer has exploded, taking out a large chunk of the planet Earth.
Scotty: Cap'n, we've got 7ghz now!
Kirk: Good work, Scotty. Sulu... reboot... the... computer.
Spock: Captain, it appears there's a penguin on the main viewer.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Likely "world record" in the same way that the hole in the wall, crappy food, taco place down the street is "world famous". ;-)
Oh wait, did you say GigaHertz?
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
Hey, my 486dx computer had a turbo button on it!
I'm sure it would've smoked this P4 thing...
Besides... 486 is 121.5 times bigger than 4!
Hmmm witty sig or funny sig? Maybe elitest techy sig!
Funny... I always thought all PIs were created equal...
How how would they be able to do this without Scotty?!?!
Easy. They reversed the polarity. You can fix anything by reversing the polarity.
All the numbers were 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 0.
I don't think it was a yes/no question.
Linux is not Windows
By my estimates, it's about as fast as a Cray-2, but I may be pulling that out of my ass.
You intend pulling a Cray-2 out of your ass?!
Are you a fan of the Goatse man by any chance?
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... will it meet the min. specs for Duke Nukem Forever?
They started Adobe Premiere on it yesterday and it is just about finished loading the plug-ins. That's record speed there.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
"SCO employee? Check out the bounty [sec.gov]"
;)
So now there's a bounty on SCO employees!?! Cool! It's about time! Perhaps now I can make up some of the money I lost trying to short their stock.
I take it this started after they all went around carrying caricatures of a grossly overweight Linus smoking pot?
Ah yes, they need to..
:)
"Bounce the graviton particle beam
off the main defector dish.
That the way we do it lad,
we're making shit up as we wish.
The Klingons and the Romulans,
they pose no threat to us!
Cuz if we find we're in a bind,
we'll just make some shit up!"
- Voltaire (without the spelling mistakes