A Japanese overclocker has managed to overclock Intel Pentium 4 670 microprocessor to 7.132GHz and even run certain benchmarks on the system that was cooled down by liquid nitrogen. In order to accomplish the extreme overclocking Japanese enthusiast Memesana, who published his results at XtremeSystems web-site, used ASUS P5WD2 Premium mainboard based on Intel’s i955X core-logic, Corsair PC2-5400UL 512MB memory modules as well as Intel Pentium 4 670 processor with stock speed of 3.80GHz. The processor system bus was overclocked to 1520MHz; processor’s voltage was pumped up to 1.70V, significantly higher than default setting; memory latency settings were CL4 3-3-4, memory voltage was set to 2.3V. According to the posted statement, the system managed to calculate π (pi) number to 1 million decimal places in 18.516 seconds, which is currently the world’s record. Earlier this year another overclocker has managed to push hit Intel Pentium 4 570J chip to 7.22GHz, but at that clock-speed the PC could function only in BIOS. The maximum speed at which he could boot Windows XP operating system and perform memory testing was 6.60GHz. this information came from http://www.xbitlabs.com/web/display/20050811231553.html o_0
Yeah i was reading about that it's crazy, would love to see benchmarks there talking about. Think i'll get me some liquid nitrogen
Here are some more people that have gone crazy with Northwood’s http://www.vr-zone.com/guides/Intel/Northwood/
overclocking is to make something go faster than was designed to. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/83263
When did you buy your dell and is it still on warranty cos' you don't wanna tamper with the insides of your pc if its still on warranty. Incase you didn't realise overclocking is achieved by tampering. There's loads of guides on the net and if your not sure then dont do it, chances are that it will mess up your system.
My computer is still on dell's warranty, SO you have to open the computer to overclock? Or can you overclock it with programs?
Your on warranty so don't try anything to do with overclocking your pc, as ddp mentioned above you fry, you pay. You got 3.2ghz its good as it is
No you don’t have to open anything unless you’re adding a hsf or something like that but that's only if you want high overclocking ratio's. Overclocking sounds easy but one wrong click and you could find yourself with a paperweight rather than a PC and it's not just a CPU you risk it's the whole system (mobo, ram, gfx card, pci cards etc.), you need to know things like temps for your CPU & mobo when there under load b4 you start anything, if i was you i read a up a bit b4 you do anything at all.
