OT: over clocking

[Ragerr]

This is major over clocking.

P4 2.2GHz to 3.6GHz

http://www.muropaketti.com/artikkelit/cpu/northwood2200/ln2/

[dmm]

I'm simultaneously impressed and LOL! Thanks for the link. Some selected funny quotes from the article:

"We used a copper bowl on top of the CPU and poured some LN2 into it. "

"BTW, Quake 3 Arena was quite fun to play when the CPU was running at 3500MHz! o_O "

BTW, a recent NYTimes article talked about how advances in chip design are making the community confident of achieving 10 GHz CPUs right in line with Moore's "Law" -- that is, within about 5 years. The bottlenecks nowadays are mainly the bus and the memory, for most apps.

[Wizarc]

My first post...will make it simple...
That is just unbelievable. Will give me something to talk about at work tomorrow.
3630MHZ.....dream machine heaven...just
need to keep the LN2 flowing.

[Puke]

there was a slashdot article way back when on alcohol based overclocking. the guys that did it put up pictures of the project at various phases and everything.

basically, they took an old 486 and took various bottles of hard liquor from the freezer and used them to cool the processor and the external Cache and stuff. they clocked it up to a few (4 or 5, if i remember) hundred mhz and played quake on it. they say it ran well for a few minutes, then their system suffered mechanical breakdowns. it seemed like their problems could have been fixed by either better design, or simply cycling the bottles so that there were always cold ones available. i honestly dont remember the details very well, though.

[Zarix]

That reminds me of a thing that happend in school. Someone had overclocked one computer in the computer class and fried the CPU in the process. My friend told me that the teacher got pretty angry when he found out what had happened. The teacher had just prepared the computer so my friend could do his exam with it.

[ 22 January 2002: Message edited by: Zarix ]</p>