Breaking the 3GHz barrier

[R.N.]

Hey I just saw the stats. on a overclocked 2GHz P4 and it is running stable at 3023.98 MHz with a front bus speed of 604.80MHz! The web site did not show any tech. support data, does anybody out there have one of these monsters at 3GHz, if so let us know some details.:burn:

[flounder43]

i guess Intel will do anything to try to compete with the XP line, including super cooling...

Kidding....:)

[funnyperson1]

im sure that some sort oif supercooling was used, i do however remember intel showing off a supercooled 3.5 GHZ Northwood at a Demo a while ago....

[R.N.]

Well I do not think it was the boys at Intel that did this overclocking but rather an overclocker like the rest of us. The CPU was a genuine intel chip and the platform was a mPGA478 Socket mobo. I think you can check it out a http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/rec/SL5TQ3024.jpg
Check it out and tell me what you think, I don't think that air-cooling was used.:burn:

[ol' man]

Originally posted by R.N.
Well I do not think it was the boys at Intel that did this overclocking but rather an overclocker like the rest of us. The CPU was a genuine intel chip and the platform was a mPGA478 Socket mobo. I think you can check it out a http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/rec/SL5TQ3024.jpg
Check it out and tell me what you think, I don't think that air-cooling was used.:burn:

I am almost positive it was cooled with LN2 but only ran for a few minutes to hours. I did the same thing where I ran my celeron at 1.87GHz just long enough to take a snapshot of the wcpuid and sandra score.

[CrystalMethod]

Originally posted by flounder43
i guess Intel will do anything to try to compete with the XP line, including super cooling...

Kidding....:)
You'ed be surprized. My friend was doing his internship at Intel, a few months ago. He was working in "desktop motherboard design". Apparently, down the hall from him, were a few engineers working with water cooling. They were working with CPU's of upwards of 4Ghz. So the the technology to get there is present, it's just a matter of making it into a compact packageable product.

[R.N.]

Well I think that at 3GHz, it probably ran a few hours and not more. I believe a 2GHz P4 can run without any problems at about 2.5GHz, after that things become unstable.What is happening is that all the masses are overclocking older CPUs more now at this time than focusing on the newer P4. I give it a few sessons for all that to shift, soon more and more of us will dable with p4 mods. and find the key to unleashing furry.:burn:

[Sir-Epix]

Originally posted by R.N.
Well I do not think it was the boys at Intel that did this overclocking but rather an overclocker like the rest of us. The CPU was a genuine intel chip and the platform was a mPGA478 Socket mobo. I think you can check it out a http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/rec/SL5TQ3024.jpg
Check it out and tell me what you think, I don't think that air-cooling was used.:burn:

They probably did what a guy did a while back. He super cooled an Athlon with Liquid Nitrogen, and got a 1GHz to like 2.2GHz. This is probably the same deal. The only problem is that the cpu doesn't last very long, and gets ruined by the condesation of the Liquid Nitrogen.

[R.N.]

Or they might have used an H.V.A.C.R. type conditioning unit. This eliminates condensation if done properly but it is not a very convenient system, I'd vouch for a watercooling system with secondary chilling tower cooling.

[OC-Master]

John Carmack was using a 3GHz Intel Northwood processor in his box but I heard now that he's upt to a 4GHz Pentium4 Northwood.

[Burning Phoenix]

I received an email from a person i wrote about his 3dmark2001 scores with the p4 and he tells me he had recently obtained a P4 2.2 northwood and reached 2.9 ghz with it. He said after the holidays he will post his scores and be #1. He also mentions he's sure these new chips will put intel way ahead again.