Overclocked Radeon Card Breaks 1 GHz

dacaldar writes "According to Yahoo Finance, noted Finnish over-clockers Sampsa Kurri and Ville Suvanto have made world history by over-clocking a graphics processor to engine clock levels above 1 GHz. The record was set on the recently-announced Radeon® X1800 XT graphics processor from ATI Technologies Inc."

Huzzah!

[Anonymous Coward]

What a day for world history! It will be remembered forever!

Awesome!

[Anonymous Coward]

First Duke Nukem Forever post
First Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those post
First Can Netcraft confirm that? post

No big surprise

[Z0mb1eman]

I didn't have Slashdot in a full screen window, so the headline read:

Overclocked Radeon Card Breaks
1 GHz

Was wondering why an overclocked card breaking is such a big deal :p

Benchmarks?

[fishybell]

Without the pretty graphs how will I know what's going on?!

Speed play offs.

[neologee]

I always knew ati would finnish first.

n00b

[Anonymous Coward]

i clocked mine to 12 ghz with a combination of liquid magnesium and wd40.

Re:One wonders...

[JamesTRexx]

Looking at the article I'd say to give ATI shares a boost.

The culprit

[ChrisF79]

I think we've found the source of global warming.

Someday people will ask...

[Keith Mickunas]

where were you when the first video card was overclocked to 1GHz. And most people will respond "huh?".

Seriously, "world history"? There's no historical significance here. It was inevitable, and no big deal.

We'll just see

[crottsma]

NVidia will make a competitve model, with blackjack, and hookers.

comon now

[Silicon Mike]

If I could only go back in time and add liquid nitrogen to my 8088 processor. I know I could have gotten it up to 5.33 mhz, no problem. NetHack benchmarks would have been off the chart.

Re:A bit presumptious?

[bcattwoo]

What are you talking about? I'm sure I will have next October 26 off to celebrate Overclocked Radeon Broke 1GHz Barrier Day. Heck, this may even become Overclocked GPU Awareness Week.

Quake IV

[Anonymous Coward]

And it still can't play Quake IV

Re:World history?

[FidelCatsro]

I am getting fed up with all the hyperbole around here ,they are worse than Hitler

(*Think about it*^)

Hot Hot Hot!

[tradjik]

Now, just pair that up with Intel's new dual-core Xeons and watch your power meter spin! At least you won't have to worry about the increase in gas prices this winter, you can just run your PC to heat your home.

FPS

[koick]

Cuz you know it's like way better to play Quake IV at 953 Frames Per Second. Totally!

That's sad...

[Xshare]

That's just sad... that video card now has more clockspeed and more memory than my own main computer.

Re:Huzzah!

[Spy der Mann]

A small clock cycle for Radeon, a giant step for mankind?

Re:It was 2D mode only

[jandrese]

It also apparently crashed a lot. This is kind of like saying "I got a Volkswagon Beetle up to 200kph[1]!!!" with a whole lot of modifications.

[1] Going downhill

Re:Historical?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but if you can hit 2.0 GHz...

Re:Awesome!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your
newsletter.

It'll just about...

[David Horn]

It'll just about be able to handle Windows Vista... :-)

Congrats

[camzmac]

Dear enthuiastic customer(s),

Congratulations, you have succeeded in clocking our cards past 1000 MHz. You are now in the ranks of Albert Einstein, Mary Curie, and Shakespeare. Many of our employees believe you are now cooler than santa claus.

Your friend,
ATI

Re:FPS

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you kidding? Quake IV? Have you actually tried playing multiplayer out on the net. Try a CTF game with 16 people. If you're lucky this *might* actually get you 30-40 FPS. :)