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.

Comments

World record?

[bcmm]

World record for the P4 or for a single x86 processor?

Re:World record?

[68K]

Exactly. I'm sure there are many supercomputers out there that can smoke this P4.

Re:World record?

[MoonBuggy]

I'm probably being very dumb here, but how come many machines on the pi_css5 page are doing it significantly faster than this? Is the method used in that program innacurate in some way?

Re:World record?

[kesuki]

or course it doesn't scale well.

quite frankly intel was supposed to be selling 6-7 ghz p4's around now... the fact that they can't but can be overclocked that fast is proof that the architecture was designed to run at those clock speeds, but that actually implementing that kind of clock speed would require insane cooling and power requirements that most sane people find unacceptable.

Re:World record?

[fireman sam]

Ah, I hate to tell you but politicians are always corporate whores.

More info and a pic or two

[erick99]

I'd like to see a pic of the machine, especially the liquid nitrogen cooling stuff. I would also like to know if this machine ran for five minutes, ten minutes, melted?

Re:Booting Windows XP

[magarity]

the XP "loading bar" still moves the same old speedM
 
Get a solid state hard drive. Texas Memory Systems if you have serious cash; Gigabyte iRam if you're on a budget.

Intel

[ziggyboy]

I'm sure some Intel chip designers have already tried all sorts of cool shit with their processors even prior to their release. I know I would if I had worked there.

Deflector Array?

[Tom7]

I think it might be more profitable to redirect the power to the processor.

Re:In related news..

[Anonymous Coward]

Considering the two bombs dropped on Japan saved more lives, both American and Japanese, than they killed I find the comparisons to the holocaust and Indian slaughter to be simply ignorant of history. There were more lives lost in the fire bombings in Europe, but I don't see anybody complaining about that. It was an ugly war that was thankfully brought to an end.

You should really use your head for more than a hat rack.

Re:In related news..

[Xabraxas]

REALLY FUNNY considering we just had the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Perhaps you want to joke about the Jewish holocaust or the slaughter of the Native American indians.

It is really funny. Hell I even joke about the holocaust and Native American slaughter. Guess what, so do my Jewish and Native American friends. If you don't have a sense of humor then I pity you.

I'm about as liberal as can be but I absolutely hate political correctness. It doesn't help anyone, it just gives some jerkoffs the opportunity to complain about trivial shit. If you really want to complain about something try taking a stab at shit that is going on now and affecting us now like the criminals in office and their illegal war, illegal torture, and illegal detention.

Designed to run at 7Ghz?

[cbreaker]

The chips run at 7Ghz with crazy stupid cooling like liquid nitrogen.

I don't see this as proof that they were designed to run this fast. 4Ghz, maybe (and only from new technologies that came to surface AFTER the P4 was originally designed) - any super high speed claims that were made were entirely marketing.

Re:In related news..

[birge]

Oh come on. It's so easy to excuse bad behavior by just claiming to do otherwise is politically correct. That's a cop out. Political correctness is when useful dialogue is stifled by group think. Not making jokes about Hiroshima is just about not being a complete insensitive asshole. You have to judge your civility by the feelings of others, not yourself, otherwise it's kind of pointless.

Just because you find it funny (and I have no problem with that) doesn't mean everybody should. Claiming knowledge of a few jews who joke about the holocaust is about the stupidest reason to excuse public joking about it. I know people who like to have others shit on their chest, but I assume you'd take offense if I came over and took a steamer on you. Would it make a difference if I said "Look, you politically correct prude, I know people who love this! So just shut up and take the poop."

I'm sick of people who act as if anything can be a public joke and anybody who disagrees is a prude. If you think that kind of stuff is funny (as do I), great. Tell jokes with your friends. But not everybody finds it funny, and you're stupid if you don't know that, and insensitive if you do. My guess is people who lost parents in Hiroshima don't find it funny. So, not making public jokes is really about being considerate, something I hope hasn't gone out of style.

Doesn't Count

[Dun Malg]

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.

I'd say that not getting out of BIOS doesn't count as actually successfully overclocking at that speed. That's like saying you raised your car's compression to 150:1 successfully, with the one shortcoming being that the head shattered into fragments when the first spark plug fired.