Team overclocks Core 2 Quad to 5.1GHz, claims world record -- too bad it's not
By Nilay Patel 
posted July 31st 2008 5:02PM
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That's irrelevant. The Core 2 Extreme is a 45nm CPU. While this Core 2 Quad is a 65nm.
They aren't the same, and Toms Hardware isn't claiming it to be the highest clocked CPU ever. It's a world record for the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Got it?
Well I hold the world's record for the loudest fucking left fan in a Macbook Pro but you don't see my waving my genitalia about it.
...i saw you.
Dear god! How can engadget have fallen so far! Clock speed is not relevant unless you are comparing two of the same exact processors. This processor would rip that 8ghz p4 to shreds. They probably have the record for quad core which is pretty cool. Single thread applications are not important in this case. Any single core application would finish extremely quickly, all video rendering/converting programs are dual or usually quad core optimized by now.
We'll probably be able to buy a more powerful CPU off the shelf in two years. (Maybe it won't be higher gigahertz, but it'll have more cores and more instructions-per-cycle for greater overall gigaflops.)
They infuse the electrons running through the busses with NOS and let them drift!
Wow liquid nitrogen yet they are using white thermal paste(as opposed to the silver stuff) and it doesnt look like they've lapped the cpu or cooler for maximum contact.
thats like putting in a beastly engine but using shitty motor oil
That was a pretty fat drop of ceramic-based paste, I bet. Were they scared of shorting something out? I don't know. It just seems stupid considering they went through the trouble of liquid nitrogen cooling but couldn't or wouldn't get silver-based paste. They could've done better than 108F (~42C) at idle.
They use Ceramique because Ceramique has the lowest available sub-zero C operating temperatures of any thermal paste. The "silver" pastes have a max of -30C, and begin to operate as insulators, rather than helping to cool it.
Wow, not sure where the bigger gathering of geeks are, on that video or on this blog.....
And I thought the iPhone news was getting boring.
YEAHH BOY you wuz OWNED beotch!
I was watching that video clip fully expecting to see the Zune tattoo guy show up.
you have an E66 bmw?
On page 20 of the Tom's Hardware review...
Update: As has been observed, the processor used in this test was a Core 2 Quad Q6600, with two of the cores disabled by the team in France. This configuration was used in order to hit the highest frequencies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/frequency possible, rather than to yield a fast and usable system.
It's technically only a dual core processor now.
We are not impressed.
We have come to expect this much... thanks for finding the admission of guilt.
still faster than my computer =P
Just wait till I'm finished OCing the octocore rig spread on my working table, just wait...
Tom's from Cologne Germany originally I believe. They probably consume too much Koelsch at their office test center.
Engadget (and TUAW, while I'm at it), I beg of you guys. Instead of posting a knee-jerk reaction that comes from skimming an article, in this case Tom's, try doing some research before you post. You HAVE to know half-ass write-ups like Nilay's here make you look like a two-bit mom and pop blog.
Two-bit mom? You mean like yours?
Didn't anyone read the article. The first paragraphs say:
"On Saturday February 23, members of the Jmax, Tom’s Hardware, and Tom’s Guide forums met in the offices of Bestofmedia. They had come to try to set a new world record for overclocking. And they succeeded. "
This was 5 months ago. 2 months before the QX9775 was OC'd to 6.1GHz.
I've never quite understood what the facination overclockers have for liquid nitrogen. Yes it's damn cold (-196C), but it evaporates so fast that the thermal conductivity is crap. Example: put your hand in liquid nitrogen...you CAN hold it there for a second or two without any damage whatsoever. Now try this with dry ice in acetone and you're going to the hospital. The best coolant would probably be a slush bath using something like propanol or dichlorofluoromethane (a freon) as it would have a high thermal conductivity yet still be cold as hell.
well... you are a chemist
Nitrogen is absolutely safe? (Not a chemist, so I don't know about propanol; I do know that acetone vapor's not real healthy, and the word "freon" nets you 5 million angry comments about the ozone layer...)
I guess 4.8 is the new 5.1?
btw, nice job drowning the processor in thermal paste.
but... can.... it...... play........ Crysi......... I CAN'T DO IT!!!! Make me stop make me stop before I...... ARRRRGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
This is going to be SO atari in 20 years.
Look at our grandfathers cooling a pc with liquid nitrogen. How pre-historic.
look at our children cooling a pc with liquid hydrogen.
ohh shiiiiii *fwoosh*
Hate to disappoint but they disabled 2 of the cores, essentially rendering it an e6600.
The author of the story missed the point; it's the highest overclock of a Q6600! Not the fastest overclock of a processor in general.
I'm fairly sure that they mean they have the record for this sort of proc, not all time.
Amazing. I wish I was rich. I'd join this sport in a heartbeat! Yes, it's a sport.
why aren't they running vista? Would be slow even at 5.1ghz :-)?
you can raise the viscosity by adding a complex glucose derivative during the emulsification process. And it turns out, I was right.....
omg they overclocked only to 5.1ghz and try to claim the "WORLD RECORD" already?!
maybe they did caved in too much that didnt check the "WORLD RECORD" standing right now
its 8180Mhz
http://hwbot.org/hallOfFame.do?type=result&applicationId=13
and they uses Pentium 4 631
Read the thread. Then re-read your comment.
i know
but that team claimed to be the world record thats just non-sense
correct me if i'm wrong but that 8179.25Mhz was posted the end of march in 2007!!!
so why claim the "WORLD RECORD" after that or before??
Am I to believe that's the best background music German geeks can come up with??!? You're breaking a world record here! Throw on some Rammstein or at least Kraftwerk!
i hope they dont mix that coffee thermos with their lunch thermos.
should they use a funnel to pour the nitro into the tube??
Will is run Crysis??!!?!?!!?!?!?!