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Pentium 4 Overclocked to 7.1GHz, Sets World Record

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the unstable-mutation dept.

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.

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  1. World record? by bcmm · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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    1. Re:World record? by 68K · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

    2. Re:World record? by MoonBuggy · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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?

    3. Re:World record? by kesuki · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  2. More info and a pic or two by erick99 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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  3. Intel by ziggyboy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  4. Re:In related news.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:In related news.. by Xabraxas · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.

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