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."

Sheesh...

[__aaclcg7560]

All the trouble those Italians do to cook sausage without burning it.

Just in Time!

[LiquidCoooled]

Thats just in time!

Vista is released in a couple of days, we need at least one machine up to spec.

Re:That's not so fast

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn you! [wikipedia.org]

Re:direct link to photos of setup

[ArcherB]

All that smoke in a couple of those pictures... Was that from the nitrogen or that pack of Camels sitting there?

Re:Just in Time!

[GweeDo]

Naw, they used the integrated video and lost all Aero Glass features :(

Re:Just in Time!

[Anonymous Coward]

*sigh* You and your facts. What do you think this is, Digg?

Re:direct link to photos of setup

[oraclese]

If I was cooling a CPU with a shoddy setup like that and using a coolant that could freeze and shatter my skin, I'd probably be a bit nervous, too (see ash tray on right hand side of first pic).

Re:Why not 8 GHz?

[camperdave]

They just didn't want people thinking that they meant 8192MHz, I guess.

Re:Sheesh...

[644bd346996]

I think the whole cooking aspect of P4s is way under-explored. Sure, everybody knows you can cook an egg with one, but has anybody used one to heat a wok, for example? Silicon stir fry! On a more realistic note, those processors could be great for sous-vide [wikipedia.org] cooking if they are water cooled.

"Smoking kills"

[feranick]

Funny the pack of cigarettes with the government mandatory sign: "Il fumo uccide" (smoking kills...) besides the smoking board...

Re:Just in Time!

[LiquidCoooled]

Digg?
You mean Duck!
That place has comment moderation down to an art!
One person spams, he gets modded down, but them the 400 replies all telling him he is being blocked are left modded up (because users would see it as a slight and have an argument about why they got downmodded and that will get upmodded and eventually you get to the next actual reply of something and some other fucker jumps in the way and it all starts again.

Re:Hurmph.

[Tumbleweed]

>> 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...

Re:Why not 8 GHz?

[ToxikFetus]

Maybe they're just trying to avoid HDD manufacturer nomenclature, where 8 GHz actually equals 7451 MHz.

Re:8GHZ and still not as fast

[Buzz_Litebeer]

I think you have a misconception of how dual processor machines work. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Thank you, Mr. Gates!

[Anonymous Coward]

Your wise and impartial comments are always appreciated!

Re:Why not 8 GHz?

[SmlFreshwaterBuffalo]

Personally, I would've gone with 8,000,000,000,000,000 nHz.

Shortly there after...

[Tmack]

...in its exceedingly fast speed, it developed AI and became aware. It quickly started amassing great stores of knowledge and began solving many previously unsolvable problems of the world, and then suddenly went silent and refused to respond to any further input...

Tm

Re:HEIL HITLER

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

Spring time for hitler and germany!

Deustchland is happy and gaaaaaaay!

Re:Hurmph.

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you write comments on youtube in your spare time?

link [xkcd.com]

Re:Just in Time!

[Copid]

I'm running Vista on my 1.8 GHz dual core AMD Turion 64 Acer Ferrari 1000 with 1.75 GB of RAM and a 256 MB ATI Radeon right now.

What, that old thing?

Re:Sheesh...

[Anonymous Coward]

I've always had a strange desire to see someone freebase off a P4...

Re:"Smoking kills"

[Anonymous Coward]

I always thought that it was cool to have those texts in the smoke packs. We also have "smoking cauces lung cancer" here in Finland. I was secretly hoping the next patch of punchlines would include "with these you do ugly and horrible death" and "these are the nails in your coffin". Also Alcohol definately needs its own warning labels. Imagine a Carlsberg with a text "no free buddies at AA".

Re:Why no benchmarks?

[gad_zuki!]

Because a P4 at 8ghz benches close to an athlon at 2.

Re:They use CPU-Z to monitor. Looks like a cool to

[joshetc]

I notice that they use CPU-Z to monitor this CPU. Seems like a pretty good tool to monitor the CPU. Get a copy here http://www.cpuid.org/ [cpuid.org]

And as a harware engineer: As long as you dont boost the voltage too much (Which these guys prpbably did), you can not damage anything, so go for it.

Isn't that sort of like going to Lambeau Field [wikipedia.org] and seeing a football and explaining to everyone that its safe to throw it?

nostalgia

[pwizard2]

This brings back the old M&M's marketing phrase, with a twist:

"Pentium melts in your PC, not in your hand"

Re:Hurmph.

[budgenator]

I'm torn between saying "Please stop the insanity" and "MUAHAHAHAH"

Re:Shortly there after...

[taupin]

After several million years, it printed a single integer: 42.

Re:The problem with high clock is not just heat ..

[Glonoinha]

Actually there is a way to get around the whole 'speed of light' issue - don't use light.
Yea, the 'photonic computer' guys didn't think that one all the way through, did they?

Use electricity instead, have it run on little traces cut in silicon like the old days, but then seal the silicon in a dark ceramic casing so no light gets in, and put the whole thing in a computer case WITHOUT the clear panels - have to keep out the light.

Light is fast, no doubt, but it is measurably fast (186,000 miles per second, as I recall) - but regular electricity running in the dark across wires (or traces on silicon) ... now that is 'hauling ass fast', also known as immeasurably fast. When you turn on a light by flipping a switch - the light takes a measurable amount of time to get to you, but when does the light actually turn on? The instant you flip that switch - ahhh, the magic of electricity running at immeasurable speeds over wire.

Think about it - every scientist in the past century has measured the speed of light - but how many have been able to measure the speed of electricity in a wire?
None?
Bingo!

And what kind of tools do they use to measure the speed of light?
Electronic tools made with electricity running on wires?
Bingo!

Re:"Smoking kills"

[micknz]

That's nothing. Check out these Australian cigarette packets.

Indeed, we here in NZ are getting those images on packets soon. I can't see it discouraging existing smokers much however.. Maybe if they printed photos of our Prime minister [pbs.org], hell, I'd quit.

Re:what will they do when

[DavidHumus]

They have a knob that goes to 11.

Re:what will they do when

[f8l_0e]

The cpu will access all memory locations at the same time, nearly causing a bus contention; and after they clock it back down to normal speed the ALUs will slowly begin to revert to those resembling the ones on the i4004.

Re:Why not 8 GHz?

[Burning1]

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: No one enjoys it, and the frog rarely survives.

BeOS

[ProfessionalCookie]

'Course you'll want to run BeOS so you can keep an eye on is_computer_on_fire()