Largest CPU multiplier ever?

[quantumsheep]

I was looking at my old Northwood the other day and realized it has possibly the largest CPU multiplier ever, a 28x multiplier! It's FSB speed is 100MHZ stock giving a total clock speed of 2.8GHZ. This interested my because i believe that is the largest multiplier of any home-use CPU that has ever been produced

Can anyone else think of a CPU that had a larger multiplier?

 

[sailer]

Don't know if there's any multiplier that's higher, but I suspect that old cpu might burn up before you got it that high. Does give one a moment of thought, though.

 

[quantumsheep]

Don't know if there's any multiplier that's higher, but I suspect that old cpu might burn up before you got it that high. Does give one a moment of thought, though.

That's the stock speed, currently im running at 3.5ghz with the stock cooler (FSB of 125) but it's stable at 3.7ghz stock cooler! For a 130nm P4 i think that's VERY impressive, imagine what these things would be like with 2mb Cache and 65nm!

 

[dasickninja]

I've done some research and it seems that Intel has the highest frequency multipliers in the microprocessor industry.
I'll continue to look.

 

[quantumsheep]

I've done some research and it seems that Intel has the highest frequency multipliers in the microprocessor industry.
I'll continue to look.

I wasn't wondering how big Intel's mulitpliers were, i wanted to know if the multi on my CPU was the biggest ever made cos 28x seems really rather large.

 

[exit2dos]

The Xeon 3.0 has a 30x multiplier. Check out the first link.

Xeon
Pentium 4
Pentium D
Pentium M
Celeron
Core Solo and Core Duo
Core2Duo

AMD Athlon
Athlon 64
Athlon XP
Duron
Opteron
Sempron
Turion

I know, TMI - but I thought I should include all the platforms in case somebody is looking for a comparison.

 

[quantumsheep]

The Xeon 3.0 has a 30x multiplier. Check out the first link.

Xeon
Pentium 4
Pentium D
Pentium M
Celeron
Core Solo and Core Duo
Core2Duo

AMD Athlon
Athlon 64
Athlon XP
Duron
Opteron
Sempron
Turion

I know, TMI - but I thought I should include all the platforms in case somebody is looking for a comparison.

Thanks a lot!

It's actually quite interesting reading up on all the old CPUs and seeing just how far we have advanced...

 

[Howard_Stern]

Scary picture exit2dos.

 

[exit2dos]

Scary picture exit2dos.

To paraphrase Quantumsheep's sig:
My wisdom is only matched by my beauty.

 

[NMDante]

Scary picture exit2dos.

To paraphrase Quantumsheep's sig:
My wisdom is only matched by my beauty.

Just punch/pop the clown's nose...they spin and explode!!!



KCFOS. A very strange movie, indeed. I did like the whole wrapped in cotton candy concept, though. LOL

 

[exit2dos]

Shhhh, don't give away my weakness.

 

[quantumsheep]

Never seen that movie, it any good?

 

[exit2dos]

It's a low budget "Kamp Komedy". If you enjoy B-movies, you'll probably like this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space

 

[quantumsheep]

It's a low budget "Kamp Komedy". If you enjoy B-movies, you'll probably like this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space

Gotta love a good B movie. You ever seen Dog Soldiers? It's a very low budget British film about wearwolves, but it's actually suprisingly good! Very British in it's execution however.

 

[exit2dos]

No, I just checked out the wiki, and it looks like a good candidate for the next B-movie night - about once every 6 weeks, a few friends and I get together and watch B-movies. It's become a competition to see who can come up with the best bad movie. The downside is that it was mandated that we could only drink cheap beer and eat generic snacks during the movies. A bunch of people drinking Milwaukee's Best (or worse) and eating off-brand Doritos - I don't like it when it's my turn to host, as I only have one bathroom and it doesn't have a commercial grade exhaust fan.

 

[Grimmy]

@subject..

It's not how big your multiplier, but the motion of the FSB... . o O (NM!!)

 

[quantumsheep]

No, I just checked out the wiki, and it looks like a good candidate for the next B-movie night - about once every 6 weeks, a few friends and I get together and watch B-movies. It's become a competition to see who can come up with the best bad movie. The downside is that it was mandated that we could only drink cheap beer and eat generic snacks during the movies. A bunch of people drinking Milwaukee's Best (or worse) and eating off-brand Doritos - I don't like it when it's my turn to host, as I only have one bathroom and it doesn't have a commercial grade exhaust fan.

It is a very good film, thoroughly recommended.

 

[drcroubie]

hmmm...
that xeon was 30*100 = 3GHz, but taking into account the fsb being 400MT/s, it's only a core/bus of 7.5.

Celery 766 was 11.5*66 MT/s, and celery Tualatin was 14*100 MT/s.
now that's FSB bottlenecking...

 

[dasickninja]

@subject..

It's not how big your multiplier, but the motion of the FSB... . o O (NM!!)

....Dirty bastard.... you took my idea.

 

[gm0n3y]

The only scene I remember from KKFOS is one where some sort of sock puppet-like clown comes out of a laundry basket (i think) to attack somebody and you can see the dudes arm holding the thing up. I saw that movie about 10 years ago though, so I could be thinking of something else.

 

[biohazard420420]

If you want a cheesely bad B-movie you should check out Q the winged serpent its great, ohh also Death race 2000 although that does have a couple big stars. Or any of the Troma Team movies are good too.

 

[gm0n3y]

I have seen many Troma movies. And I love the 'hand' grenade in DR2k. Have you ever seen a movie called Cannibals? Its a musical staring Trey Parker and is an awesome movie. What about the classic Surf Nazis Must Die?

 

[quantumsheep]

@subject..

It's not how big your multiplier, but the motion of the FSB... . o O (NM!!)

....Dirty bastard.... you took my idea.

Unlucky!