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- 4321234, on 11/15/2009, -10/+234Can I turn my speakers back up now?
- lolwatermelon, on 11/15/2009, -37/+200http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/24/pentium-4-overc ...
The Pentium 4 broke the 7GHz "barrier" in 2007. How is this news? Also, I thought we had established that the GHz race was harmful to the industry and had put that behind us? - i23Photography, on 11/15/2009, -1/+157Does this mean Crysis 2 is coming soon?
- Shadic, on 11/15/2009, -10/+137http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
*****, DO YOU SPEAK IT? - Firesniper20, on 11/15/2009, -18/+122But will it blend?
- Jo9100, on 11/15/2009, -4/+90What's up 2006? Long time no see!
- TylerDuhrdan, on 11/15/2009, -7/+88Sure, let me run to the "overclock store" pick up some liquid helium and have a 7Ghz computer in my own house.
Let me know when this is realistic.
Oh, and that video sucked, no info, just a crappy music video. - lorddazzer, on 11/15/2009, -4/+81Don't forget that the Phenom II is a quad core processor, meaning that there are 4 cores producing heat. 4 cores producing heat = 4 times the heat.
So if P4 at 7Ghz gives off X amount of heat, a Phenom II would "theoretically" produce 4X amount of heat (theoretically because of different factors such as architecture, design etc.)
You're right though. There is no "BARRIER" as such. I could technically get any processor and overclock it to a high enough clock cycle to go over any speed. But it would probably blow up within a couple of seconds.
While 3 years ago it would have been possible to hit 7Ghz with a Pentium 4, it is a entirely different thing for a Phenom (or a Quad core for that matter) getting all 4 cores to 7ghz. So lets give these guys a pat in the back for some good OC and applaud the advancement of cooling technology through reckless abandonment of personal safety. :D
Bad title, but good effort. - dha07030, on 11/15/2009, -3/+74I think the point is that even using those methods it is still pretty amazing.
- ChromaVita, on 11/15/2009, -3/+70Oh its the Black Edition, of course it can run faster.
- trghpy, on 11/15/2009, -37/+102Not to be the negative nelly, but using liquid nitrogen or helium to over clock stuff is nothing new.
Please wake me when we can break 7gz barrier with a standard heat sink and fan. - Remingtonh, on 11/15/2009, -0/+60That's why you need 7 GHz
- shodanx, on 11/15/2009, -4/+63so 40% of the video is a really quick look a previous attempts
then a few seconds showing their new rig and "record" setting (like 3dmark is some kind of calibrated measuring device ... laughable) then they spend the last half of the videos presenting the characters of some sitcom about overclocking I guess... - Rhendal, on 11/15/2009, -6/+64The joke and the game are 2 years old now, so yes, it can.
- Lordy1952, on 11/15/2009, -1/+59http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permal ...
its with AMD Phenom™ II X4 965 Black Edition 125W - Tubal22, on 11/15/2009, -0/+42I hate negative Nelly's.
- chriswastaken, on 11/15/2009, -0/+40He's more of a Negative Nancy anyway.
- Shadic, on 11/16/2009, -1/+36How dare I quote Pulp Fiction!
***** off. - lolwatermelon, on 11/15/2009, -18/+53Burried? Are you serious? They claim this processor's breaking the 7GHz "barrier" like nobody's been able to do it before, and I spent 5 seconds on google to find a Pentium 4 from 2007 overclocked to 8GHz.
- Dustmuffins, on 11/15/2009, -0/+34Finally something that can effectively run youtube's flash fullscreen in HD.
- anthropodeus, on 11/15/2009, -0/+32don't breathe that! that's dragon smoke.
- GTRagnarok, on 11/15/2009, -2/+31You should look into that. Youtube videos load just fine.
- leon1337, on 11/15/2009, -7/+32This has already been done. It was on one of the early Diggnations.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Japanese_Man_Overclocks_ ... - ienjoyrolling, on 11/15/2009, -2/+25Of Course it can, Your comment is so old that even processors from back then could run Crysis.
- Shnuffles, on 11/15/2009, -8/+31Sound Barrier has been broken.... and it's still the sound barrier
- Ophie, on 11/15/2009, -4/+26I can't.
- lolwatermelon, on 11/15/2009, -14/+36The title is "Breaks 7GHz Barrier" it's not a barrier if it's been broken already. Three years ago.
- bradleyland, on 11/15/2009, -0/+22He's not the only one. I'm not sure what's up lately, but at peak hours, YouTube videos are painfully slow to load.
- TheGooseyOne, on 11/16/2009, -0/+21DAMMIT! I submitted that story and got it on diggnation and have smiled the years since as it has sat pretty at 1337 diggs.
I hate you all! - sh0em0nkey, on 11/15/2009, -6/+27***** YouTube videos. It moves at a snails pace, especially when it's something I wanna watch. I haven't been able to watch this video without a buffer every friggin 10 secs.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/623563643.png
Ugh, and now I have nothing useful to add, just this mini rant. - steviesteveo, on 11/16/2009, -0/+20Dugg for "getting" how optical computing works
/s - thatruth101, on 11/15/2009, -9/+28this is the FIRST processor to ever be able to take liquid nitrogen at such low temperatures, that is what makes this new. Also the overclock is RECORD BREAKING. If you tried to run this test on any other processor on the market it'd choke and die.
I remember when people we're cooling stuff to get 2ghz out of 1ghz, and now we have processors running at or near 4ghz stock.
We can reach 7ghz on silicon, if we can manufacture it at smaller sizes...we just can't do that yet though. But before we get that far we may not be using silicon at all anymore considering there's other technologies which can break the 7ghz barrier such as quantum and optical computers.
I think they squeezed 100+mhz out of a single photon. considering a single light bulb gives off billions or even trillions of photons it's safe to say that optical computing can bring us far beyond the ghz barrier. - tgc1, on 11/16/2009, -0/+19People don't take kindly to facts around here.
- ruckfules, on 11/15/2009, -0/+18Hello... TigerDirect?
I was wondering if you had 10 gallons of liquid helium... - shieldwolf, on 11/16/2009, -7/+25I hope you are kidding, he meant:
"For those of you who don't know, Liquid He [As in HElium] is the stuff they use to cool down super conductors." - 1b2a, on 11/15/2009, -3/+20Lol you're getting buried
- mRku, on 11/15/2009, -1/+18Nothing.
You can't use i7 when cooling with liquid helium.
Google: cold bug. - msgdealer, on 11/15/2009, -0/+17The Cry Team has three of these solely for the development of CryEngine 3
- Mapekz, on 11/16/2009, -0/+17Crysis III
Minimum System Requirements:
-Four quad-core CPUs OC'd to 7 GHz linked in parallel to each other
-Movie theater sized projection screen
-Olympic sized pool full of liquid helium
-The user's ability to settle for the lowest graphic settings despite having paid $10 million for all of the above - Rockyn, on 11/15/2009, -0/+16I got new glasses and now I can see in HD fullscreen.
- eljitto, on 11/15/2009, -2/+18youtube is this way -->
love the Pulp Fiction reference, BTW - DoctorPeptalk, on 11/15/2009, -0/+15http://www.speedtest.net/result/623649239.png
- geoboy, on 11/16/2009, -0/+14And it can jump higher. But it can't swim better.
- Legoman513, on 11/16/2009, -0/+14No, it isn't. The sound barrier is the speed of sound, an actual significant measurement. There is nothing critical or different at 7Ghz. The "barrier" of physics becomes progressively more difficult to overcome as you increase speeds, but it's not at any one particular point.
- greevar, on 11/16/2009, -0/+13Call me when it's over 9000.
- GTRagnarok, on 11/15/2009, -2/+15It would never reach such high clock speeds simply because the Phenom IIs can run at really low temperatures.
- BIOHazard87, on 11/15/2009, -1/+14You are wrong deus.
Ghz are Ghz. The Pentium 4's did clock higher, even as high as 8Ghz, but, performance wise it will still lose to even a 5ghz Intel Core 2 - ElAmo, on 11/15/2009, -1/+13wtf don't steal syntaxgs' glory
- xenuxenuts, on 11/16/2009, -0/+11but does he dance?
- slashdotordigg, on 11/16/2009, -1/+12just wait till we have 1024 cores under the hood. then you can run the trailer of that game.
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