enthusiast.hardocp.com — So far, with minimal tweaking and a stock core voltage, we have been able to be a fairly solid 3.5GHz (10x350) processor speed along with a DDR2-1170MHz memory bus speed with some fancy prototype Corsair RAM. The last shot above if our 1M Super Pi time of 14.453 seconds. Checksum is 9D24384A for those of you that need to validate it.
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Closed AccountJul 17, 2006
I meant not the Pi calculations. The Gaming and other CPU-Intensive tasks. Most people wont use a OCed computer to calculate Pi
Closed AccountJul 17, 2006
@dacheetahI wrote a program for my TI-83+ which could calculate PI to 12 digits in about 4 hours. How long ago did you write that program?
rambleJul 17, 2006
The blurb says stock core voltage, not stock cooling.Anyway, since they hadn't changed the voltage, then the retail HSF would work fine.
swimming_birdJul 17, 2006
The swiftec storm (designed by cathar) is the best wb on the market. Cathar's G8 is better but he only sold 14 of them lol.The most difficult aspect of a DIY kit is the mounting of the items within the case.
millixawJul 17, 2006
I'll buy that for a dollar!
Closed AccountJul 17, 2006
We still have hard drives slow as frozen peanut butter!
dacheetahJul 18, 2006
@foolfromhellIt was at least 11 years ago, I was in primary school (so no older than 12), and it was run on an 8088, in QBASIC, and I don't think it was compiled... I'm sure my Athlon2800+ and c++ skills could produce something alot faster these days though.
sirmasterboyJul 20, 2006
This is nothing... awhile ago they got an X6800 to 5Ghz with a 1M SuperPi of 10.312sec<a class="user" href="http://laminatedkitten.com/sirmasterboy/X6800.gif">http://laminatedkitten.com/sirmasterboy/X6800.gif</a>
lastdinosaurSep 13, 2006
i don't think we'll be seeing very significant increases in hard drive speeds soon. unless you build yourself one of those ram-drives, which is more of a novelty than a feasible, mass-market solution, you'll have to wait on the incremental developments of bus-speed and technologies such as native command queueing, and the proliferation of perpendicular storage drives. the bottleneck of seek time is always an issue as long as a platter solution is used.