Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4

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Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4 421

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:33PM from the ambitious dept.

sH4RD writes "The 6GHz barrier has been broken by two guys, a little LN2 (liquid nitrogen for those not as chemistry inclined), and an Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) 3.60GHz. Check out some icing and some proof of speed. Better yet take a look at how fast it calculates pi. Also be sure to check out the original announcement."

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All of that speed... (Score:3, Funny)

by poofyhairguy82 ( 635386 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:36PM (#10351922) Journal

calculates pi
Just to figure out the answer to a problem every 8th grader knows.

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Just in time... (Score:5, Funny)

by Ars-Fartsica ( 166957 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:37PM (#10351924)

With winter coming and the price of oil approaching $50, you can now safely turn off your heater and just point the vent of your 6Ghz P4 into the middle of the room...or maybe run a venting system off of it connected to the heat ducts in your house...

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doom 3 (Score:5, Funny)

by Coneasfast ( 690509 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:37PM (#10351925)

ok, yes, doom 3 has some pretty high sys requirements to run smoothly, but isn't this going a wee bit overboard?

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calculate pi... (Score:3, Funny)

by spacemky ( 236551 ) writes: <nick&aryfi,com> on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:37PM (#10351928) Homepage Journal

Look how fast I can calculate pi:

3.1415927

wow, that was fast.

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skynet ensues... (Score:5, Funny)

by sciguy125 ( 791065 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:40PM (#10351940)

I think we need to stop making our computers go so fast. We're only making things easier for Skynet.

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Re:Erm... (Score:5, Funny)

by MikeXpop ( 614167 ) writes: <mike&redcrowbar,com> on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:41PM (#10351944) Journal

In all seriousness, this is pretty amazing, but I can't really see the usefulness.

To pick up chicks, obviously.

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In layman's terms... (Score:3, Funny)

by xactuary ( 746078 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:41PM (#10351946)

their scroll bar works faster than yours.

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hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)

by jjeffries ( 17675 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:42PM (#10351958)

take a look at how fast it calculates pi
I hope it's a substantial improvement over my machine... Seems like I've been waiting forever for it to finish...

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Re:calculate pi... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:43PM (#10351964)

You missed some digits at the end.

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Pi has been slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:44PM (#10351974)

but don't worry I got a copy.

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Appropriate Homerism... (Score:3, Funny)

by 3D Monkey ( 808934 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:45PM (#10351982)

mmmMMMMmmmm Pi

*drooling* aggghhhhhh

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Re:skynet ensues... (Score:5, Funny)

by Etienne Steward ( 677851 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:46PM (#10351987)

I, for one, welcome our new 6GHz overlords...

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8 lots of P4 at 3.2 GHz overclocked. (Score:2, Funny)

by daveh_oz ( 697309 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:49PM (#10352012)

Now just imagine it - an 8 CPU powered box with each CPU running at 3.2 (rated) overclocked to 6.4 GHz = 51.2 GHz with a exabyte of Hard drive space. The ultimate BeOS machine - just wondering if anyone would consider building one :).

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Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)

by Z-95 ( 801437 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:49PM (#10352013) Homepage

In other news, Microsoft increases Longhorn's recommended requirements to 7GHz.

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Re:All of that speed... (Score:5, Funny)

by lukewarmfusion ( 726141 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:49PM (#10352016) Homepage Journal

No kidding. I could have told them that it was 3 and they would have saved so much time and money.

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Re:hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)

by kzinti ( 9651 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:53PM (#10352045) Homepage Journal

Seems like I've been waiting forever for it to finish...

May be, but at least it keeps your memory banks free of bloodthirsty demons like Boradis, Keslack, and Rejick.

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Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)

by _Pablo ( 126574 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:54PM (#10352058)

The CPU-Z shots very strongly suggest it's running in windows. But just maybe it's a VM on Linux, or Wine or some other reason to mention Linux on slashdot!

It's a shame the pi calc shot is done when it's running at 5.4Ghz instead of the arbitrary 6Ghz...

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It calculated PI? (Score:5, Funny)

by rco3 ( 198978 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:54PM (#10352061) Homepage

Waitaminute, waitaminute, waitaminute! They timed how long it took to calculate PI? That implies that it *FINISHED* calculating pi!

Now, THAT's "News for Nerds. Stuff That Matters"

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Imagine... (Score:1, Funny)

by bool morpheus() ( 689231 ) writes: <morpheus2600@x[ ].com ['msg' in gap]> on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:56PM (#10352068) Journal

a beowul--ah, nevermind.

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Re:It calculated PI? (Score:5, Funny)

by SEE ( 7681 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:56PM (#10352069) Homepage

And it completed an infinite loop in under five seconds.

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Yksi Kaksi Kolme (or however you spell it) (Score:2, Funny)

by pugdk ( 697845 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @08:57PM (#10352075) Homepage

It *might* be Pi they are calculating in that screenshot, but heck, what does "Laskenta Alkaa" means?

God I hate screenshots in a language I can't understand.

Typical finnish, first they take over the only FPS ever worth playing (aq2), now they're taking over /.!

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LN2 fitted Laptop (Score:3, Funny)

by malia8888 ( 646496 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:02PM (#10352094)

I think the LN2 is cold enough to crack the pleats in my good wool skirt

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Re:doom 3 (Score:5, Funny)

by NtroP ( 649992 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:02PM (#10352097)

Nah, this is in preparation for Duke Nukem Forever.

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Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)

by SensitiveMale ( 155605 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:03PM (#10352103)

In all seriousness, this is pretty amazing, but I can't really see the usefulness. For sheer geek pride, sure, why not? But as far as I can tell the expense involved outweighs any gain in performance

Damn. I was hoping to buy a $99 liquid nitrogen cooling kit at CompUSA tomorrow. :)

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Re:Erm... (Score:5, Funny)

by 10scjed ( 695280 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:05PM (#10352112) Homepage

wow, windows at 6GHz, think of how much spyware it would take to finally slow it down...

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Re:Pi has been slashdotted (Score:3, Funny)

by MBCook ( 132727 ) writes: <foobarsoft@foobarsoft.com> on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:07PM (#10352124) Homepage

You got part of it wrong.

The part where you have "...5...", that should be "...7..."

Have a nice day ;)

(he he he)

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Re:Pi has been slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)

by Bryan_W ( 649785 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:10PM (#10352141) Journal

You missed a few at the end

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Pfft (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:13PM (#10352158)

I can remember every single digit, just perhaps not in the right order.

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Deus Ex IW (Score:2, Funny)

by Chiisu ( 462604 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:13PM (#10352165)

So Deus Ex IW will run at a smooth 60 FPS now?

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Re:Appropriate Homerism... (Score:3, Funny)

by upsidedown_duck ( 788782 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:21PM (#10352202)

No, it's

mmmmmmm floor Pi

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Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:21PM (#10352204)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

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Re:calculate pi... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @09:21PM (#10352205)

Memorizing pi is easy, once you've learnt the pattern.

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Why LN2 when they live in Finland (Score:5, Funny)

by elmarkitse ( 816597 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @10:04PM (#10352459)

Why on earth would they go to the expense of an LN2 based system when they could just open a few windows.

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Re:Alienware's next product. (Score:3, Funny)

by ameoba ( 173803 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @10:07PM (#10352480)

I wish I hadn't blown my modpoints. Nobody should get modpoints for a post in which they use the phrase 'preppies'. Most of the world's not highschool. I just hope that you're still in HS and not some 30yr old that still hasn't gotten over it.

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Re:Erm... (Score:2, Funny)

by aklix ( 801048 ) writes: <aklixpro@NosPaM.gmail.com> on Saturday September 25, 2004 @10:14PM (#10352520) Homepage Journal

It ran, but then decided it couldn't run on a system that slow.

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Wow! Clear some room in the Smithsonian... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @10:57PM (#10352708)

...for the first computer in existence that met Longhorn's minimum system requirements!

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Re:Why LN2 when they live in Finland (Score:5, Funny)

by Temporal ( 96070 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @11:03PM (#10352737) Journal

So they could use in in the sauna, of course!

(That's sow-nah, not sah-nah!)

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Re:Cold! (Score:5, Funny)

by Kenshin ( 43036 ) writes: <.ac.skrowranul. .ta. .nihsnek.> on Saturday September 25, 2004 @11:18PM (#10352795) Homepage

They're Finnish.

They don't need liquid nitrogen. Couldn't they have just put their PC outside?

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Since someone has to say it.... (Score:2, Funny)

by matyas47 ( 811167 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @11:26PM (#10352828)

I, for one, welcome our new, liquid nitrogen-cooled, 6 Ghz overlords! (...and I'm not even an Intel fan...)

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Re:hmmm... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @11:52PM (#10352942)

Huh? It only takes a couple of seconds to execute on my machine:

grep 'Value of pi' bible.txt
3.0

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Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)

by Billly Gates ( 198444 ) writes: on Saturday September 25, 2004 @11:53PM (#10352956) Journal

Try running doom3 over 35 fps.

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Message in PI (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday September 26, 2004 @12:23AM (#10353078)

You forgot the binary at the end that forms a circle...

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Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)

by einhverfr ( 238914 ) writes: <{chris.travers} {at} {gmail.com}> on Sunday September 26, 2004 @12:37AM (#10353124) Homepage Journal

To pick up chicks, obviously.

Haven't been on a date lately, have you?

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Prof. Frink Quote (Score:3, Funny)

by forty-2 ( 145915 ) writes: on Sunday September 26, 2004 @12:42AM (#10353150)

Akhem, er, excuse me, if I could have everyone's attention... would you all please listen, If you could just... Pi is exactly 3!

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Re:8 lots of P4 at 3.2 GHz overclocked. (Score:2, Funny)

by Sean Johnson ( 66456 ) writes: on Sunday September 26, 2004 @01:17AM (#10353250)

I don't know for how long I went around pronouncing it like that for serious when I didn't know any better. All because of that damn movie. I have 1 jigobyte of memory. This hard drive has 80 jigobytes of storage space. LOL!

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Speed Claim. (Score:2, Funny)

by pilsner.urquell ( 734632 ) writes: on Sunday September 26, 2004 @01:24AM (#10353273)

Gad, it's running on a windows box. Those numbers can't be trusted.

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Re:Erm... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday September 26, 2004 @02:04AM (#10353390)

Like crap... Only a half gig of ram? That would bairly run Solitare featuring clippy.

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Re:Pi has been slashdotted (Score:2, Funny)

by AgBullet ( 624575 ) writes: on Sunday September 26, 2004 @02:27AM (#10353450) Journal

I use e, you insensitive clod!

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Re:It calculated PI? (Score:4, Funny)

by wildsurf ( 535389 ) writes: on Sunday September 26, 2004 @02:36AM (#10353470) Homepage

They timed how long it took to calculate PI? That implies that it *FINISHED* calculating pi!

Well, considering it was done on a pc, 640k digits out to be enough for anybody.

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Re:Cold! (Score:2, Funny)

by niteice ( 793961 ) writes: <icefragment@gmail.com> on Sunday September 26, 2004 @09:03AM (#10354295) Journal

They're Finnish.

And they're using Windows. Do you see a problem here?...

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Re:The Calculation (Score:4, Funny)

by Holi ( 250190 ) writes: on Sunday September 26, 2004 @11:19AM (#10354797)

if you consider launching a computer into space easier.

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All of that speed... (Score:3, Funny)

Just in time... (Score:5, Funny)

doom 3 (Score:5, Funny)

calculate pi... (Score:3, Funny)

skynet ensues... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Erm... (Score:5, Funny)

In layman's terms... (Score:3, Funny)

hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:calculate pi... (Score:2, Funny)

Pi has been slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)

Appropriate Homerism... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:skynet ensues... (Score:5, Funny)

8 lots of P4 at 3.2 GHz overclocked. (Score:2, Funny)

Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)

Re:All of that speed... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)

It calculated PI? (Score:5, Funny)

Imagine... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:It calculated PI? (Score:5, Funny)

Yksi Kaksi Kolme (or however you spell it) (Score:2, Funny)

LN2 fitted Laptop (Score:3, Funny)

Re:doom 3 (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Erm... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Pi has been slashdotted (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Pi has been slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)

Pfft (Score:2, Funny)

Deus Ex IW (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Appropriate Homerism... (Score:3, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

Re:calculate pi... (Score:5, Funny)

Why LN2 when they live in Finland (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Alienware's next product. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Erm... (Score:2, Funny)

Wow! Clear some room in the Smithsonian... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Why LN2 when they live in Finland (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Cold! (Score:5, Funny)

Since someone has to say it.... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:hmmm... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)

Message in PI (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)

Prof. Frink Quote (Score:3, Funny)

Re:8 lots of P4 at 3.2 GHz overclocked. (Score:2, Funny)

Speed Claim. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Erm... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Pi has been slashdotted (Score:2, Funny)

Re:It calculated PI? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Cold! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:The Calculation (Score:4, Funny)

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