P4 2.4 up to 4GH!!!

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It is unbelieveable how high some of these overclocks are. I don't even know if this merits news, but I just find it amazing!!!

http://www.vr-zone.com/guides/Intel/Northwood/


http://www.maxreboot.com/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1017334946,5546

Over at virtual zone they now have in their database a P4 clock at an amazing 4Ghz!
The original processor was a P4 2.4Ghz Northwood
This comes days after someone got the P4 to 3.9 GHz.

The system used.
• Intel P4 Northwood 2.4Ghz (Locked)
• SL65R Malay
• ASUS P4B266 rev 2.01
• PC2100 128MB SDRAM
• Millennium 4MB PCI
• PROMISE Ultra100TX2 Quantum AS
• VCore 2.2v
• Temp -175
• LN2 Cooling
• Windows ME
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Yes , the chip is capable, but LN2 cooling is hardly practical everyday cooling for most of us
 
Wonder how long he managed to use the CPU at 4GHz... No mention of that in the site... {g}
 
Here's a quick review from The Inquirer on the new P4 2.4:


http://www.theinquirer.net/2_4_4.htm
By Andrew Thomas, 05/03/2002 16:11:36 BST

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF OUR SAMPLE Pentium 4 2.4GHz chip - due for launch any day now - are pretty good. The Northwood part is built on a 130 nanometre (0.13µ) process which gives benefits in terms of power requirements, heat output and the amount of real estate available on the die.
The shrink from 180nm means that the on die L2 cache is 512K - double that of the earlier P4 Willamette parts. At full power the 2.4GHz Northwood has a thermal design power of 57.8W (2GHz Willamette 75.3W) with a core voltage of 1.5V (down from the 1.7V of Willamette) and our sample peaks at 38 degrees C after six hours of 100 per cent CPU utilisation running the SETI client in the background. Not bad considering exactly the same heatsink is used.

No surprise then that the newer 130nm P4s (1.6, 1.8, 2.0 and 2.2 GHz parts are already available) are finding their way into notebooks as well as desktops, despite warnings from Intel that constraints on heatsink size will invariably mean that the chips spend most of their lives throttled back by their thermal protection circuitry.

On Sandra 2002 tests, the 2.5GHz part returned 4677Mips, 1250 FPU Mflops and 2897 SSE2 Mflops. A reference Athlon XP1800+ delivers 4240Mips and 2124 FPU MflopsiSSE2: 9485 (8370) it/s and Floating Point 11593 (9760) it/s. µ


There are some more Sandra benchmarks comparing the P4 you might want to check out at the Inquirer.
 
Here's another review:

Intel's Pentium 4 2.4GHz processor
Furiously fast—no foolin'

by Scott Wasson — April 2, 2002
http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2002q2/pentium4-2.4/index.x?pg=1

THEY SAY sportswriters have to be some of the most inventive, creative writers anywhere in order to keep their reports about an endless series of sporting events interesting. I say those guys have nothing on us, because if you compare Craig Barrett to Latrell Sprewell...

OK, let's not do that.

But you get the idea. Today, we're looking at yet another speed grade of the Pentium 4, following closely on the heels of a little clock speed bump from AMD for its Athlon XP. This processor is—wait for it—0.2GHz faster than the last revision of the Pentium 4. And that's about it.

However, we're bound and determined to keep this thing interesting, and we're fortunate to have an ample dose of help from Intel and AMD. Last week, Intel broke its long and determined spell of pretending AMD doesn't exist, only to start talking smack about AMD's processor "model number" scheme (in which the Athlon XP 1.73GHz, for instance, is called the Athlon XP 2100+.) Intel even slipped a fifty to a journalist covering the beat to write up the story. No doubt Jerry "Colonel" Sanders cut out the choicest quotations and hung 'em in the break room for the Hammer development team to read.
 
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