6 GHz barrier BROKEN!

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:26 pm

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho ... hp?t=42655

From a Prescott 3.6GHz 560....

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:46 pm

wake me when its 6 ghz air cooled.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:36 am

LN2 doesn't count does it? You can't close an LN2 circuit, so it's impossible to maintain without literally, burning the stuff off...

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 5:09 am

Crazy.

BlueFlames · Post by **BlueFlames** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:55 am

LN2 doesn't count does it? You can't close an LN2 circuit, so it's impossible to maintain without literally, burning the stuff off...

That explains the smoke then.

I hate to say it, but I'm with Mobius on this one... With that much smoke, you have a self-destruction device, not a killer overclock. It's about equivilant to the guy who wrote into PC Gamer a long while back with his 386 machine overclocked to 500MHz to play Unreal Tournament. Yeah, that was a 2500% overclock, which would be amazing if it didn't keep bursting into flames every few minutes.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:03 am

Wow, what would I do with 6GHz...

Let's see. Oh yeah, check my email and surf the DBB.

BlueFlames wrote:It's about equivilant to the guy who wrote into PC Gamer a long while back with his 386 machine overclocked to 500MHz to play Unreal Tournament. Yeah, that was a 2500% overclock, which would be amazing if it didn't keep bursting into flames every few minutes.

And lol @ you, sir!

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:03 am

that's not the chip bursting into flames.. that's just nitrogen vapor.

reason you can't close a LN2 circuit is quite simple: the pressure would build up to a point to where the circuit would rupture.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:43 pm

that guy has WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on his hands

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:22 pm

AceCombat wrote:that guy has WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on his hands

I believe it is called a hobby.

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:23 pm

AceCombat wrote:that guy has WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on his hands

He has a much bigger return on his time than certain forum spammers.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:17 pm

AceCombat wrote:that guy has WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on his hands

At least he isnt violating any cats.

LOL

Take it easy, it was a joke. We still buddies right?

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:28 pm

top, if you think i still get even slightly angry or even upset at that..........you need to spend more time reading all the posts about me and cats.

time does move on you know

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:02 pm

Not bench stable - just a screenshot record

Well... At least you get some bitchen fast screenshots, right?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:38 pm

BlueFlames wrote:
LN2 doesn't count does it? You can't close an LN2 circuit, so it's impossible to maintain without literally, burning the stuff off...
That explains the smoke then.

I hate to say it, but I'm with Mobius on this one... With that much smoke, you have a self-destruction device, not a killer overclock. It's about equivilant to the guy who wrote into PC Gamer a long while back with his 386 machine overclocked to 500MHz to play Unreal Tournament. Yeah, that was a 2500% overclock, which would be amazing if it didn't keep bursting into flames every few minutes.

That isn't smoke, it's frozen air vapor. They have super-cooled the CPU see HERE

That's one heck of a setup. I wonder how much money they put into it. Is that meter reading Temp? 18.9 degrees C? o_O

Edit .. yea.. its reading Degrees see Here in the corner there. You can see. It's reading 105 C at that point. Later on when it's covered in frost, it's reading something like 18.9

Site subtitle wrote:What can you expect when you put two monkeys (aka macci + The Stilt), 20l bottle of Ln2 (liquid nitrogen, -196C) and some nice high-end hardware (in this case a 3.6GHz P4) to the same little room?

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:26 am

Actually, its reading -105C Dup...

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:46 am

BLEH 6Ghz Overclock...useless unless you have a pipeline that can make use of it!

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:30 am

BUBBALOU wrote:BLEH 6Ghz Overclock...useless unless you have a pipeline that can make use of it!

Agree

Also i say for it to be a perfect OC is it had to be 100% stable