What a ridiculous project! But how awesome would it be to be the hardcore system building nerds they asked to do this? A couple months ago, a French Tom’s Hardware-related superteam got together to overclock an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz as far as it would go. They just put up the pictures and everything yesterday. They used liquid nitrogen cooling and a pretty serious-looking compressor to suck the heat right out of the thing, and ended up more than doubling the cycles. For reference, it’s generally safe to overclock your stock hardware about five percent, and even the real pros get maybe an extra thirty percent — and at that point you’re risking a lot of errors, artifacts, and so on. If you’ve ever wondered what liquid nitrogen cooling looks like in motion, check out the video (en Francais).
So congratulations to the team, but watch out for this guy (two years ago).
Wow… I gotta get me one of those.
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Ahh, brings back memory’s of /b/.
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Runs awesome for a month. Also only costs 8x times the cost of buying the chips to do it at normal clock speed! Overclocking is so 90s.
but will it run crysis?
of course not, computers cant run crysis
Erm… excuse me. 5% overclock being safe? I normally get 15-20% without trying too hard. Maybe if you were using the stock cooler, then you would have a problem but with even modest air cooling you can get some pretty decent clocks.
Yeah by stock hardware I mean stock cooling too. Most people wouldn’t know where to plug in an extra fan….
Even then, I overclock C2D based chips much higher than that on stock cooling all the time. I’m on a Celeron E1200 at 2.8 on stock cooling, and my case is closed with no extra fans. My Q6600 did 3.4 stable on stock cooling for months and 3.6 on a Zalman hunk of copper. AMD chips are the ones that usually don’t get more than 5%. (For the record, I’m an AMD fan. Intel’s just way in the lead right now.) Nevertheless, it’s very pleasing to see a 5GHz+ Q6600. ;-)
THE FALCON HAS SOME SERIOUS OVERCLOCKING ON HER NAVICOMP!! LooL361
Uhm… world record… in what? The pros are up to 8Ghz, so this seems a bit old. Is this some sort of subrecord for systems okay for prolonged use or something? I sort of doubt it what with the liquid nitrogen.
I think that the world record is in percentage increase over the stock speed. The 8GHz ones would be on procs stock clocked to like 4.5GHZ or something. Got any links? If I’m wrong, I’m wrong.
it was a world record for the Q6600.
at least thats what the article on Toms Hardware said.
I’ve run my Q6600 2.4Ghz at 3.6GHz for a year now. Cool, stable and quiet. And no, I did not spend 8x the money. Antec 900 Case, Asus P5E Mobo and Asus Silent Knight CPU Fan is all it took for me. It can probably go higher than 3.6 GHz but all I’ve done is to raise the FSB speed. Didn’t even raise voltage or anything.
If being able to overclock you CPU with 50% for very little effort and money is 90s then I’m only too happy to be a nineties guy :p
As Arhcie Bunker used to say, “Whoopty Doo, I’ll whip up a batch of cookies”
LMAO
Wow, sounds like these Geeks have a LOT of spare time on their hands!
JT
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world record？
5%? Hmmm, let’s see, back when the Celeron 300A come out we were getting 50% overclock(66Mhz FSB upped to 100Mhz). Currently, I have a 1.6Ghz Celeron E1200 running at 3.2Ghz with a $10 Cooler master heatsink and an fan attached to the northbridge. Amazing the performance I can get out of a $50 chip(yeah, not a lot of L2, but I tested and E6600 at 3.6Ghz and it was only about 20% faster at encoding, and consider that they were about $150 a while back, that’s not worth the extra speed. Further, I’ve had the E1200 running at 3.4. When I get a better cooler, I may try faster.
Hi Larry. Gee, the Internet is small.
Steam machine that runs on hot coffee?
But hey not a bad OC for a Q6600..
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sorry guys but i am not impressed. this thing is the same as claiming a world record of maximum velocity just by racing a car on ice or any other non-friction surface… I mean, what you can get from this? sorry but that’s what I think. PS:btw what else you can do with liquid nitrogen? ultra-fast beer cooling?
I would love to have a cpu half that fast.
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Paul, robert. itsalayonwords just cool it and relax don’t be so harsh on Gravix……………………….you pack of Fucktards (which means that you are fucking retarded dickheaded cunts)
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