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Pentium 4 overclocked to 3.5GHz

Btw, keep in mind that they used nitrogen as the coolant and that they only used 128mb of RAM and an old Matrox card.
Here is the inquirer sight that has word of it. WORD
 
omg did you guys see that huge hunk of copper on top of the CPU? looks like it weighed 5 pounds, no way that would fit in my case.
 


<< Yeah..., and my dog can make pancakes... >>

Thats the first time I've ever heard that one... But pancakes sound pretty good right about now.
 
ok for real thats bullsh$# ohh yea i can't say that. Think about it how many of you guys over clock? I do and realy have never had heat be the cause of my crashes. its always the memory or somthing else that makes me crash or just run unstable.
 
I agree with CdnMade on this one.

Nitrogen cooling, most noticeable of which is Kryotech, has been used on quite a few CPUs over the years...
Someone did manage to get a C300a to about 680 with nitrogen, but the fact is nowadays its true - heat is not really the limiting factor; it just doesn't help.

Also in the 'WORD' they do mention that it was stable "for a short time".
Now, that hardly consitutes a successful overclock. I could possibly make my chip fire up @ 2ghz... but even if it did post it wouldnt get any further - and what good is that?

If someone said that they had overclocked a 2.2 to 3.5, had it POSTing, booting into Win2k/XP, running a benchmark w/o errors, and capable of an uptime of at least an hour, then it would be earth-shattering.

But in the words of the characters of the original Diablo... I am not impressed.
In fact, id really doubt that there's any truth in it at all.
 
Although the "overclock" is extremely high, I gotta agree with PH0ENIX...unless it boots, loads windows and runs apps, I am not "as" impressed...but this is definitely a big step though.
 


<< Btw, keep in mind that they used nitrogen as the coolant and that they only used 128mb of RAM and an old Matrox card. >>

He's just doing it for bragging rights. Otherwise he wouldn't be castrating it with an old Matrox video card and 128MB of memory. That is just stupid.
 
A P4 Northwood OC'ed to 3.5GHZ is not news. Intel had one like that a while back, it was also supercooled. It was at one of this years computer conventions
 
how did they get 2.05v anyway? My friend and I want to experiment with some hardcore overclocking and different cooling techniques, but we realize that you need more voltage then motherboards will allow you to give CPUs.
 
I'd like to correct Phe0nix. The reason why people use liquid nitrogen cooling, isn't to combat heat that might possibly make the chip unstable. It's to improve the conductivity of the aluminium/copper wiring and decrease capacitance so that the chip can run at higher frequencies. You notice almost a 150% increase of semiconductor preformance (I.E. Celeron300@~700MHZ, Athlon500~1.1GHZ, BX Chipset running at 200MHZ FSB etc..) if you use super cooling. Most metals, when the temprature decrease, increase conductance. And some become super conductors with enough cooling. That's why a PIII using a Niobium process running at liquid helium temps would produce 0 heat and use 0 power, and run at around 2GHZ. It's all about conductance, capicitance, and stuff. Not about heat.
 
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