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Strange Pentium 4.2Ghz Dell

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gauravsharmaf6

Junior Member
Image says it all:

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It was a cheapish dell box shipped configured with a Pentium 4 530 cpu (3ghz).
PCMark resultsbrowser software reports it @4.2ghz as well.

This is a dell mBTX case/board, nothing touched. Dell Dimension 5000 (I think this is a europe only model at time of writing).

I know this can be photoshopped, but really, this is for real and I am wondering what is going on 🙂

Any ideas guys?
 
will try this now and report back, thanks.

bios is very locked down, typical dell, no adjustments available really.

are there any other quick tests i can try?
 
restarted pc. bios said 3ghz.

but booting into windows, and checking system properties again...its INCREASED to 4.41ghz!

pcmark2004 shows 6000 now.

I swear this is no hoax either.

The fan spins up when I run pcmark but is now quiet again.

pcmark score pic
 
you gotta be worried when the benchmark reports a higher score .....

but hey on the bright side, maybe you really do have a 4.4Ghz P4 5xx?

in a dell no less. i'd be worried about the cooling at this stage 🙁
 
cooling inside this case is fantastic, everything is pretty much cool to the touch when opening the case up whilst running.

see here

120mm (very quiet, must be spinning well below 1000rpm here, the single platter idle seagate is more audiable) in middle of case pretty much cools everything. I'd imagine they designed it to meet demands of dualcore etc later as well.
 
looks like the comment from anand about prescott scaling up with higher ghz favourably is true. 6200ish in pcmark is just strange, i've never seen anything like this online, let alone here on my desktop right now. im weirded out, going to bed now 🙂
 
sisoft score

seriously...what the fuck?!!!

this is no joke either..any verification methods, I am happy to go through.

funny thing is, I bought the prebuilt dell to actually GET AWAY from this type of thing....
 
seriously. i registered just to post this. i would do it if i wasn't so totally weirded by the whole thing. If i could be convinced somehow its wrong, i would happily accept it, I paid for a 530 besides 🙂

i can understand how people may think its fake though, and its the last thing i expected from a factory shipped and constructed dell!

other sandra score (4.23ghz this time i booted)
 
Here's why I call BS:

Originally posted by: gauravsharmaf6
restarted pc. bios said 3ghz.

but booting into windows, and checking system properties again...its INCREASED to 4.41ghz!
Click to expand...

There aint any computer I know that INCREASES the speed randomly on boot, especially a Dell.
 
i've emailed mike magee (theinquirer.net) to come over (uk is a small country!) and verify if desired 🙂

trust me, I would not be playing a joke this big.
 
The only POSSIBLE way would be with auto OCing. However, there aint a Dell out there that I know of that has an auto-OC feature
 
me neither.

I'm fine with a 3ghz box (and that is what i paid for), and have no idea what's happened with it really. the 120mm fan slows down/speeds up depending on activity as per normal, 90%+ of the time it's so slow as to be inaudiable.

it's pretty much a perfect noise/speed payoff 🙂
 
topples a $1000 Pentium Extreme, by significant margin.

here


This is *weird* 🙂

Just goes to show what Intel was probably planning until the thermal problems starting hitting them. That said, the system here is virtually silent and running fine (the fan spins up when running pcmark then runs down quickly which would indicate that otherwise thermals are ok too). The 80GB 8MB SATA seagate is the noisiest component when idle.
 
Yeah, I agree, run super PI, try and find the SSE3 patched version. Then take a screenshot once it is finished, and before clicking ok.
 
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