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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. Prove it by Danborg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Paste all the numbers here for verification please.

  2. That's cool but by notque · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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    1. Re:That's cool but by alragh · · Score: 5, Funny

      About 18.516 seconds by the looks of things

  3. In related news.. by leathered · · Score: 5, Funny

    Overclocking experiment results in largest single release of thermal energy in Japan since 1945.

    Casualty figures as yet unknown.

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    1. Re:In related news.. by pwroberts · · Score: 5, Funny

      Some tasteful moderation there by whoever modded the parent "Flamebait"... ;-)

    2. 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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    3. Re:In related news.. by joNDoty · · Score: 5, Funny

      One of my relatives died in the holocaust. It was a horrible, humiliating way to die -- he fell out of the guard tower.

      So please, don't ever joke about the holocaust.

  4. 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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    1. Re:More info and a pic or two by The+Hobo · · Score: 5, Informative

      Here you go Clicky

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  5. Booting Windows XP by kihjin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  6. pi=42 by Spodlink05 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good job they didn't try that on an original Pentium, what with all those decimal places...

  7. actual link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Link to the actual forum posting, complete with pics.

    http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php ?t=70225&page=5&pp=25

  8. Re:and people womder... by aktzin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe this is what Sir Arthur C. Clarke meant when he said that supernovae are probably industrial accidents.

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  9. And people said by Drew+Curtis · · Score: 5, Funny

    that x86 would never hit 100MHz!

  10. Re:World record? by PsychicX · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

  11. Still slower than G4! by porneL · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll be missing "nah, that's just megahertz myth".

  12. Dry Ice Slot by gregor-e · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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.

  13. Stardate 7234.1 by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  14. Re:World record? by pooly7 · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's not exactly true, you can compute the Nth binary digit of PI without the need of the previous one. Here is the guy who discover it : http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/pi/

  15. Vista requirements by Medieval_Thinker · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and in related news, Microsoft has revised the minimum processor requirements for Vista.

  16. Re:World record? by ArcticCelt · · Score: 5, Funny
    "The system managed to calculate pi to 1 million decimal places in 18.516 seconds"

    ...but still took 25 to open an Adobe Acrobat document!

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  17. According to his calculation... by TCQuad · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the numbers were 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 0.