[Solved] 4.0 GHz computers are out now?

Hi, I just googled on "4.0 GHz" and on the first page, about 3rd from the top, was a link to a 4.0 GHz water-cooled AMD X6 1055T for sale at Amazon.com. It was called a "Trinity Mini" designed by Liquid Nitrogen Overclocking (dot com) and I was wondering if anyone has heard of them, or this computer? Thanks if you can help out.

Hi AllanCameron and welcome to Tom's forum.

For that price ($2250.00) u can build much better spec even u can build an i7 rig for that price.

My advice: Don't waste the money build yourself and overclock it to 4GHz.

So many of the current gen processors hit 4ghz you don't need to look at prebuilds like that, which are going to be overpriced. Almost any "i" core from Intel will hit 4ghz on air, and AMD 965 BE or their X6s can generally do 4ghz on air as well...

Spend only what you need. Do some research and you can spend half as much for more PC.

I dont have a SSD, but that's still maybe a grand for total build. I think that learning to oc and tinker and know your system is the best way to go.

Hello again,

This is the link I saw posted that showed the parts for the build.

http://southjersey.craigslist.org/cps/2004840646.html

Looks like the SSD is extra, and it also only has a GTS 250 video card wich is mid range.

So, what do you plan to use the PC for? That one isn't bad but it's still... a little much, I guess.

Well, it's true that stock you generally don't find 4ghz, and that's even the case here. The X6 isn't 4ghz. But it's overclocked. The thing about overclocking is that you can do it at home over a weekend. Like I said before, most of the newest CPUs can hit 4ghz on air cooling. I've had my i5 750 at 4ghz, even tho stock it's 2.6ghz. Right now I run it at 3.7ghz with turbo on, which is a nice feature. So if a program is running only a single thread my CPU hits a nice 4.25ghz.

You might be interested in waiting a few months if there's no hurry now, because Intel is about to release their "sandy bridge" CPUs which are a nice little improvement over current gen (but restricted overclocking except on specific "K" models) and also AMD is going to release some new CPUs. Even then, current generation CPUs are fast and won't be outdated for at least several years (by outdated I mean will be "slow" ).

The architecture argument is perfectly valid, and there is an easy enough way to see which system is faster through running benchmarks.

If Wolfram and amirp wouldn't mind, I'd like to see how your systems do running the benchmark application that is on the overclocking company's page. I downloaded it and ran it, it's basically a DOS console type app, but it is complied for use with 64-bit hardware.

You can read all about it (single threaded, 64-bit, requires 1 GB to run, will create a "report.txt" file when it's done, makes a whole bunch of other smaller files as it runs which you can throw out).

http://www.liquidnitrogenoverclock [...] l#page_top

The top reported speed was by an Intel Xeon W3580 @ 4.95 GHz, and the running time was 3 hours, 12 min, 40 seconds.

My own time was much, much longer (5 hours+) but I am running it on an old machine.

I'd like to know what your system at 4.0 GHz can do, versus what the performance of the systems for sale can do.

Best answer selected by AllanCameron.

If you look at the benchmarking results on the Liquid Nitrogen Overclocking site, you can see some of the people who participated in hwbot rankings. Where there are hyperlinks to their names, it takes you directly to their HWBOT profiles.

http://www.liquidnitrogenoverclock [...] l#page_top

I'm getting the Intel i7-860 version with 4 processors, 12 GB RAM, and a 1 TB drive.

http://www.amazon.com/Trinity-Wate [...] 043&sr=1-3

I was quoted a price of $2050 with shipping for buying direct rather than through the Amazon store, which is what I am going to do. The systems just looks too cool not to own!

LN is for extreme overclock and benchmarking not for normal use. With a good cooler or if u want something better with a LCS is more that enough.

Now the question was mark as solved.