A whopping 8GHz was achieved on a liquid hydrogen cooled Pentium 4 631 the other day mounted on an ASUS P5B Motherboard. Wow. 8GHz is amazing on any sort of processor, but on a Pentium? (Too bad, it will still barley run Vista ;)) How did they do it!?!!

Attached to it was thousands of dollars worth of liquid nitrogen cooling That’s how. To me this seems all very cool, but I think it’s about as useless as installing Linux on an old style Rotary Phone.. The poor ASUS Mobo could barley handle it. In fact, it couldn’t. After a few voltage mods and a bunch of copper piping for more nitrogen powered cooling, it finnaly just allowed all laws of physics be tossed out the window allowing the core clock speed to reach just over 8GHz. And the resulting product looked more like an old tube radio… I can hear the static now… And speaking of static, I’m actually surprised that the processor didn’t explode in a morbidly expansive, universe collapsing, fiery death. So all our most sincerest congrats, good ol’ OC Team Italy.

See you in the record books

[…] So that’s how it looks, here’s how it preforms. At the heart of the machine is an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Dual Core Processor. With dual core technology (pretty much the standard of today) running at 2.40 GHz with a whopping 4MB L2 Cache, and of course all with 64 bit technology. Maybe we could get OC Team Italy to overclock this baby to over 8GHz (Or 40…) […]