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Overclocked Radeon Card Breaks 1 GHz
dacaldar writes "According to Yahoo Finance, noted Finnish over-clockers Sampsa Kurri and Ville Suvanto have made world history by over-clocking a graphics processor to engine clock levels above 1 GHz. The record was set on the recently-announced Radeon® X1800 XT graphics processor from ATI Technologies Inc."
What a day for world history! It will be remembered forever!
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why this announcement would come out on Yahoo! Finance
No, seriously, I just come here for the articles.
I didn't have Slashdot in a full screen window, so the headline read:
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Overclocked Radeon Card Breaks
1 GHz
Was wondering why an overclocked card breaking is such a big deal
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They should have clocked it to 7.1 GHz with liquid nitrogen...
Without the pretty graphs how will I know what's going on?!
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The performance of GPU's seem to grow faster than those of CPU's. I remember someone had proposed to use GPU's to proces generic data. It would be 12 times faster than a CPU.
I always knew ati would finnish first.
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have made world history
I think that's going a bit far. Good for them and everything, but world history? V-E day, Einstein's 1905, Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus- these events impact world history (sorry for the all-Western examples); making a chip oscillate faster than an arbitrary threshold does not.
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I'm not going to take that seriously until I see some actual 3DMark results. I can overclock my 9800Pro to some insane speeds but once I start to push it I get all kinds of corruption.
i clocked mine to 12 ghz with a combination of liquid magnesium and wd40.
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Uh, it's cool and all but not likely to be in the history books. (easy on that hyperbole, wiil ya)
where were you when the first video card was overclocked to 1GHz. And most people will respond "huh?".
Seriously, "world history"? There's no historical significance here. It was inevitable, and no big deal.
How is this any more historical than overclocking it to 993 mhz? Its not! 1ghz is just a nice round number. It I overclock one to 1.82 ghz tomorrow, no one will care!
NVidia will make a competitve model, with blackjack, and hookers.
http://www.muropaketti.com/3dmark/r520/ghz/
And as for being the first people in the world to do this... the chances of that are small. I'm sure there are people at Radeon (and other companies) who have done things far more bizarre, but didn't announce it to the world.
The team, optimistic that higher speeds could ultimately be achieved with the Radeon X1800 XT, attained the record speeds using a custom-built liquid nitrogen cooling system that cooled the graphics processor to minus-80 degrees Celsius.
It seems we may have a ways to go before it can be done with standard air cooling. I actually didn't think that operating temperatures for these processors went down to -80C.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
If I could only go back in time and add liquid nitrogen to my 8088 processor. I know I could have gotten it up to 5.33 mhz, no problem. NetHack benchmarks would have been off the chart.
I've always wondered...Why have GPU speeds always been so much slower than CPU speeds?
Are they made on a different process? Are they made with different materials? Are there signifigantly more transistors on a GPU?
Why don't we have a 3Ghz GPU?
After the LCD screen "news" earlier, I am glad to see that the unashamed marketting is submitted to Yahoo on this one ;).
Sampsa Kurri told in a Finnish forum that it was over 1 GHz only in 2D mode. They are trying to run it with same clocks later. ATI left some tiny details away from their press release... ;P
That's about how exciting this post is. What a dull day for news.
Liquid Nitrogen cooling is a bit of a cheat, didn't Toms Hardware get over 5ghz out of a 3ghz P4 a few years ago by constantly pouring liquid N over it?
I'm gonna wait until you can get 1ghz with a practical cooling solution before getting too excited (tho the way CPUs are heading these days cryogenic cooling may come as stock in a few years!)
And it still can't play Quake IV
Sampsa and Ville already broke their own record by overclocking the same setup to over 1GHz for both the GPU and memory. See pictures over at Muropaketti.
Now, just pair that up with Intel's new dual-core Xeons and watch your power meter spin! At least you won't have to worry about the increase in gas prices this winter, you can just run your PC to heat your home.
Cuz you know it's like way better to play Quake IV at 953 Frames Per Second. Totally!
That's just sad... that video card now has more clockspeed and more memory than my own main computer.
...than a Pentium IV.
But I do love having a PIV now that winter is here.
...is there anything one can't do with that stuff?
(Judging from Big boys, I doubt it.)
...the pictures of the rig : here they are, 3DMark05 included.
not really sure why she gets all the credit for that. she wasn't the first, and far from the only...
http://www.bfgtech.com/7800GTX_256_WC.html
BFG GeForce(TM) 7800 GTX OC(TM) with Water Block. Factory overclocked to 490MHz / 1300MHz (vs. 400MHz / 1000MHz standard), this built-to-order card will feature a water block instead of a GPU fan for those wanting to purchase or who may already have an existing liquid-cooled PC system. BFG will hand-build your card using Arctic Silver 5 Premium Thermal Compound. Easily hooked up to any existing 1/4" tubing system or to 3/8" tubes with the included adapters, this card runs cool and silent. BFG Tech is proud to offer their true lifetime warranty on this graphics card. (Card with water block requires internal or external water cooled system, sold separately.)
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when new video cards are faster than your CPU
The 3dmark you link to is not at 1ghz, so those cant be the right benchmarks
Good point! Why must they be so cold? I always thought that the problem was removing heat (i.e. not letting it get hot) rather than making it ridiculously cold. Anyone?
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It'll just about be able to handle Windows Vista... :-)
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Overclockers and their ilk remind me of ricers in the automotive world -- both use a lame "turn it to 11" approach instead of real ingenuity and creativity in increasing performance. And whether the engine blows up from excessive boost and nitrous, or the CPU/GPU burns up from heat, they risk equipment damage by toying with technology they don't understand. What's even worse is, they take pride in doing it.
Dear enthuiastic customer(s),
Congratulations, you have succeeded in clocking our cards past 1000 MHz. You are now in the ranks of Albert Einstein, Mary Curie, and Shakespeare. Many of our employees believe you are now cooler than santa claus.
Your friend,
ATI
To -80 degrees? Ouch! How cold were you before that?
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When ATI or NVidia says that their GPU is 64bit, this means that the ARGB use 64bit which makes 16bit per component.
16 bit floating point number may be a problem due to the small precision.
"attained the record speeds using a custom-built liquid nitrogen cooling system that cooled the graphics processor to minus-80 degrees Celsius."
Everyone can do this.....
...it can run Windows Vista now?
Let's see... you're using more power to run the overclocked board. So that likely uses more fossil fuels to produce the electricity.
You're putting out more heat into the environment, so that's warming up the environment, even if just a little.
You do know that a respectable percentage of worldwide energy use goes to computers, the internet, etc.?
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I misread it as: Overated ATI Card. But yeah, one reason NVIDea is owning ATI is compatibility, and fairly decent cards at low and high ends.
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On the other hand, 'almost 2 GHz memory speed' is a little more meaningful. At least they mentioned that.
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You know this will boil down to a new pissing contest with those who inflate their ego with clock timings... sheesh
One logical explanation would be to lower resistance.
The lower you get on temperature, the lower resistance of various materials becomes. You can even reach superconductivity, where [C|G]PUs will go crazy in power.
With lower resistance, you could lower voltage and get the same functionality (since voltage drops are now smaller). This reduces heat produced, and frequency can be increased as signals are stronger.
Not sure if anyone else noticed, but the videocard in question was actually overclocked to 1003.50 MhZ, not exACTly a true GhZ, eh? This is the same kind of math that rips me off of gigs on my mp3 player and HDD. Nevertheless, I welcome the first vc to be clocked to 0.97998046875 GhZ!
Um, if you look at the timestamp, this posting was first to mention global warming! And speaking of redundancy, it's THE WHOLE REASON we have global warming anyway: 5 million people on the planet can be pretty wasteful and not impact things, but if 7 billion people even just fart, you have a problem.
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