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Pentium 4 631 Overclocked to 8 GHz
Andreas writes "There are always those who are willing to take things one step further than others. A group of guys known as OC Team Italy is one of them. They recently pushed an Intel Pentium 4 631 to over 8000MHz using an ASUS P5B with modified voltage regulation and liquid nitrogen. Overclocking is cool and all, but this extends beyond what some would perhaps call useful. Still a milestone though."
All the trouble those Italians do to cook sausage without burning it.
Thats just in time!
Vista is released in a couple of days, we need at least one machine up to spec.
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Damn you!
All that smoke in a couple of those pictures... Was that from the nitrogen or that pack of Camels sitting there?
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If I was cooling a CPU with a shoddy setup like that and using a coolant that could freeze and shatter my skin, I'd probably be a bit nervous, too (see ash tray on right hand side of first pic).
They just didn't want people thinking that they meant 8192MHz, I guess.
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Funny the pack of cigarettes with the government mandatory sign: "Il fumo uccide" (smoking kills...) besides the smoking board...
>> Overclocking is cool and all, but [8Ghz] extends beyond what some would perhaps call useful.
:)
> Come back in a decade or two and trying saying that.
Oh, I'm sure noone would ever need more than 8gHz...
Maybe they're just trying to avoid HDD manufacturer nomenclature, where 8 GHz actually equals 7451 MHz.
I think you have a misconception of how dual processor machines work. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Personally, I would've gone with 8,000,000,000,000,000 nHz.
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Because a P4 at 8ghz benches close to an athlon at 2.
And as a harware engineer: As long as you dont boost the voltage too much (Which these guys prpbably did), you can not damage anything, so go for it.
Isn't that sort of like going to Lambeau Field and seeing a football and explaining to everyone that its safe to throw it?
This brings back the old M&M's marketing phrase, with a twist:
"Pentium melts in your PC, not in your hand"
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I'm torn between saying "Please stop the insanity" and "MUAHAHAHAH"
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Actually there is a way to get around the whole 'speed of light' issue - don't use light.
... now that is 'hauling ass fast', also known as immeasurably fast. When you turn on a light by flipping a switch - the light takes a measurable amount of time to get to you, but when does the light actually turn on? The instant you flip that switch - ahhh, the magic of electricity running at immeasurable speeds over wire.
Yea, the 'photonic computer' guys didn't think that one all the way through, did they?
Use electricity instead, have it run on little traces cut in silicon like the old days, but then seal the silicon in a dark ceramic casing so no light gets in, and put the whole thing in a computer case WITHOUT the clear panels - have to keep out the light.
Light is fast, no doubt, but it is measurably fast (186,000 miles per second, as I recall) - but regular electricity running in the dark across wires (or traces on silicon)
Think about it - every scientist in the past century has measured the speed of light - but how many have been able to measure the speed of electricity in a wire?
None?
Bingo!
And what kind of tools do they use to measure the speed of light?
Electronic tools made with electricity running on wires?
Bingo!
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They have a knob that goes to 11.
The cpu will access all memory locations at the same time, nearly causing a bus contention; and after they clock it back down to normal speed the ALUs will slowly begin to revert to those resembling the ones on the i4004.
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'Course you'll want to run BeOS so you can keep an eye on is_computer_on_fire()