Man clocks Pentium Extreme to 5GHz

• nightzip

  27 Apr 06, 18:19

  By 'ard Reg
  
  27th April 2006 09:44 GMT
  Japanese enthusiasts have been treated to a demo of an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 chip running at over 5GHz, a frequency 35.8 per cent higher than the part was designed to be clocked to. The chip usually runs at just 3.73GHz.
  
  A peek inside the casing reveals Danish cooling specialist Asetek's VapoChill Extreme Edition II refrigeration system, using to pull the CPU temperature down to a mere 5°C. The 65nm, dual-core, HyperThreading-enabled 965 is fitted onto a standard Intel D975XBX motherboard.
  
  
  
  According to a report on Japanese-language site Akiba PC Watch, which covered the demo, the CPU's voltage needs to be dropped from 1.5V to 1.42V before it can be overclocked to the 5.066GHz. ®
  
  Is this a joke? put this in international news? i thought our singapore branch have people overclocking pentium extreme to 7Ghz liao.
  
• Gasfene

  27 Apr 06, 18:24

  Well this just means a chip can run faster under low temp. Nothing to do with a new record or anything.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  27 Apr 06, 18:25

  I thought there's already a 5GHz chip out there liao, but Intel isn't going to sell it, until a few years later.
  
  Marketing strategy, forced people to upgrade slowly and earn money.
• Gordonator

  27 Apr 06, 19:56

  good. tell that fellow to clock the graphic card as well. so can play DOOM III and QUAKE IV with all the graphical setting set to the highest.
• SexyChin

  27 Apr 06, 20:00

  What's the big deal?
• duotiga83

  27 Apr 06, 20:01

  extreme overclocking.....
• Takumi2eLimit

  27 Apr 06, 20:01

  You can find all these in Maximum PC March issue.
• Gordonator

  27 Apr 06, 20:07

  Originally posted by SexyChin:

  What's the big deal?

  well, if u're hungry, u can open it up and fry an egg.
• dark_snowboy

  29 Apr 06, 09:01

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  well, if u're hungry, u can open it up and fry an egg.

  or make some ice cream