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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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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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They just didn't want people thinking that they meant 8192MHz, I guess.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
>> 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.
Personally, I would've gone with 8,000,000,000,000,000 nHz.
Because a P4 at 8ghz benches close to an athlon at 2.