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

That's cool but

[notque]

How long can the machine last at that sort of overclocking? How much experience have others had with lifetimes of chips once you overclock them by a lot.

Re:World record?

[PsychicX]

My question is this. Tom's Hardware put a P4 under liquid nitrogen a while ago, put the northbridge chipset under a phase change compressor, and replaced the motherboard power converter in order to supply enough power to the chips, and they were only able to achieve 5.25GHz max. What did this japanese guy do different that gained him another 2.5 GHz? Is it entirely a result of using newer chips with new manufacturing technologies like Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI)? Or did this japan guy do something that Tom's didn't?

Dry Ice Slot

[gregor-e]

Somebody needs to make an auto-overclocking system that has a slot for feeding in bricks of dry ice.

You want that render to finish before lunch? Just slide in a brick of dry ice and watch the steam come out the sides as your motherboard's temperature sensor gives the go-ahead to crank the clock up to 7 GHz.

Re:But.,.

[uberdave]

Ah! Witness the emergence of a new Slashdot catchphrase.