How to overclock to 7GHz

"Ok, let's go over this one more time, boys. Pentium 4 670 Prescott."
"Check."
"Asus P5WD2 motherboard."
"Check."
"Industrial cryogenic cooling device."
"Check."
"Take our meds?"
"Aw hell no."

And thus the Japanese 7GHz legend was born.

[Via Softpedia. Thanks, Jordan]

[matt @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

sweet. where do i get one?

[rich @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

that shizz looks like it could back in time!

[rich @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

insert the word "go" into comment above.

[Scott @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

Ok, great. Where are the benchmarks?

[t-bone @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

after following the link to the babelfish translation of the blog, i noticed a google advert for drug and alcohol treatment.

did google's read of the excellent prose on the site determine that one must be on drugs or otherwise intoxicated to understand gems such as:

"While soaking in the after effect, the; it applied temporarily, (laughing)"

and

"Riding in spirit, it tried sending also medium range."

ah - the fun of babelfish.

[cheeze @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

I just don't see the point.

[Corey @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

How much do u think this �Industrial cryogenic cooling device.� goes for? IM guessing quite a bit since this is the first time Ive seen anything like this.

[Vexir @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

Wow, 7GHZ, thats crazy :-D I want it!

[Shawn @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

Think of how fast my solitaire game would run on that sucker...

[P Sin @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

the only "benchmark" was that this dude ran SUPER PI and got a time of something around 18.516S! check out the original blog for this info.

[morgan @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

now that's what I call a cooler ! hell yea !

[Daniel @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

Yes, but does it WORK? and if so, for how long? Is it a safety hazzard?

If the answers to my questions are yes, plenty long, and no, then why isn't Intel manufacturing these chips right now? They would kick AMD's ass.

[John @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

I don't see what's so groundbreaking, all they did was rip off "Real Genius".

[Ice Cold @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

That's nothing I can get my 386 to run at 4GillionHz using icecubes and Photoshop.

Top that!

[Ichi @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

#11: They do sell these processors. Just not with them set to run at these clock speeds. They don't sell them at 7GHz speeds because a) the CPUs were probably not designed for that speed and are probably not 100% stable at that speed and b) the cooling solution probably costs thousands of dollars by itself.

[Dataminer49er @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

Can you fit a beer can holder on the side of that?

[sk @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

If you need that much processing power just buy a 4 socket dual CPU AMD Opteron system. Those 8 cores blow away anything in its pass.

[Exzite @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

"If the answers to my questions are yes, plenty long, and no, then why isn't Intel manufacturing these chips right now? They would kick AMD's ass."

Who are you, where did you come from, and what are you doing on this website?

[josh @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

NOTE: I'm pretty sure these guys did it for the fact of doing it, not so much for the processing power. Don't rail on them because YOU don't understand the context.

[aoc007 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

Ahem Fugger from XtremeSystems hit 7.2Ghz some time ago with a 570, February actually, but he didn't run SuperPi.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=53037&highlight=fugger+7.2ghz

[Who @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

Nice!!! Hard to believe he got that oc PI stable.

[Buzzcut @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

I could totally use a system running at 7Ghz (Super Pi 2M runs around 100 seconds on a P4 660, 15 seconds on SPi 2M is totally awesome).

Not every program is multithreaded. Some programs run no faster on an 8 Opteron system than on a FX-57. For example, FEA programs are not multithreaded.

Phase change rocks, but cryogenic rocks harder.

[SR @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

cryogenics is the bomb, yo. why use liquid nitrogen for stupid stuff like freezing sperm? use it for overclocking, yeah !!111!!11!

[what @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

7GHz? Thats it? My FX-57 is still faster then that POS P4.

[Trigg3r @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

OK. That's super, but how do i install it. some pictures wuld be helpfull. ;P (this is a nice work plese don't be ofended by this coment)

[Ryan @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

I'm sry, that's a little too fast for me. I think I'll stick with my PII.

[Mike @ Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

"If you need that much processing power just buy a 4 socket dual CPU AMD Opteron system. Those 8 cores blow away anything in its path"


It doesn't matter how many cores you have unless the application you are using can support multiple cpu's. You might as well have a million cores.