cm0002@piefed.social to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 4 days agoUltra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down13
arrow-up1103arrow-down1external-linkUltra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980www.tomshardware.comcm0002@piefed.social to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squarebacon_pdp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·4 days agoThere were hundreds of people with those back in the day on overclocking forums, a few got those chips to 6Ghz with liquid nitrogen.
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up13·4 days agoThe point is, this is not an overclocked chip. The factory speeds for released chips topped out at 3.8 GHz, but this is a factory Pentium 4 with a base clock of 4GHz.
There were hundreds of people with those back in the day on overclocking forums, a few got those chips to 6Ghz with liquid nitrogen.
The point is, this is not an overclocked chip.
The factory speeds for released chips topped out at 3.8 GHz, but this is a factory Pentium 4 with a base clock of 4GHz.