Overclocker Pushes Intel's Celeron D to 8.20 GHz
An Intel Celeron D 347 processor was overclocked to a crazy-fast 8199.5 MHz.
An overclocker by the name of “TiN” from XtremeLabs.org claims to have pushed the 65nm Intel Celeron D 347 processor to an insane 8.20 GHz (8199.5 MHz) clock-speed without melting a single face. This new clock speed knocks out the world's previous overclocking champ by a mere 16.8 MHz. That's an amazing feat given that, by default, the single-core Celeron CPU has an official clock speed of 3.06 GHz.
Xbitlabs reports that TiN achieved this blistering speed by using a heavily-modified DFI LanParty UT P35 motherboard (Intel P35, revision A2), OCZ Technology memory, and liquid nitrogen. Hexus adds that the overclocker first heated the Celeron CPU to over 200°C to remove the integrated heat spreader (IHS), and then inserted it into the motherboard.
But despite the amazing clock speed, TiN did not provide benchmarks to show how well the CPU performed at such a high frequency. Although it's interesting to see the Celeron pushed to an extreme limit, Hexus points out that frequencies are no longer the “defining performance characteristics” thanks to multi-threaded computing.
Still, we'd like see this jacked-up CPU tackle a younger, friskier CPU such as the Intel Core i7 clocking in at 3.00 GHz. Perhaps we'll see a few benchmarks soon. In the meantime, check out the forum post... there are a few images showing how TiN reached the overclocked speed.
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YES!!! THIS CELERON WILL PLAY CRYSIS!!!
No, Crysis likes dual cores. A single core clocked at 8GHz will play Crysis at high, medium resolutions and lowered AA, but definitely not VeryHigh/1080p+/AA > x4 or UltraHigh gfx with mods.
YES!!! THIS CELERON WILL PLAY CRYSIS!!!
that gave me a good laugh!
I'm wondering about the vcore haha
YES!!! THIS CELERON WILL PLAY CRYSIS!!!
With the proper graphics, it actually would.
Who cares? Its a Celeron at any speed!
May be its because of the instability at such frequencies. Also i really don't think it can even beat a core i7 processor.
it's a celeron D! lol by all means a bad performer but it's a very high freq none th less
Who cares? Its a Celeron at any speed!
They might have gotten the speed to record highs but GHz doesn't mean much when it's still a Celeron. Would've been much more impressive if they put that effort into an i7 or at least Core 2 generation.
I am impressed..
I'm wondering about the vcore haha
Probably rivals what your house uses.
I'm wondering about the vcore haha
2.096VDC according to the screen shot.
That core voltage has me in shock. I have never even seen a voltage beyond 1.7v that didn't fry a (more modern) CPU.
I'm wondering about the vcore haha
if the cpu-z pic is correct. then its at 2.096v
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Well done to who ever pulled it off. Wonder if they still have some of those "Golden" P4s floating around.
That core voltage has me in shock. I have never even seen a voltage beyond 1.7v that didn't fry a (more modern) CPU.
lol, you haven't done much have you: http://hwbot.org/community/submiss [...] z_3800_mhz
E2180 @ 3.8Ghz with DIY Waterblock.
just another case of dressing up a pig in a skirt. i can make a 1977 cutlass supreme go 300 mph with a rocket straped to it. so what! still an unusable piece of hardware.
Why do people think Crysis scales past a 1.8GHz dual core?
How much money do nerds make overclocking CPUs like this?
To me, it's pretty pointless. Today, in real life situations, you'll probably never us a CPU overclocked that high. 4.0~4.2 Ghz is probably the norm for daily extreme overclockers. I have mine set around 3.6~4.0Ghz daily.
Yeah... I don't really see the point in "recreational overclocking". You can run that bad boy for 15 minutes before your liquid nitrogen stock is fresh out... then what? Back to 3.X or 4.XGHz, inevitably -- some stable speed that can be supported by regular water cooling.
...plus, it's still a celeron. He should upgrade his name to "PlatinuM" and step up to some core 2's.
How much money do nerds make overclocking CPUs like this?To me, it's pretty pointless. Today, in real life situations, you'll probably never us a CPU overclocked that high. 4.0~4.2 Ghz is probably the norm for daily extreme overclockers. I have mine set around 3.6~4.0Ghz daily.
It shows dedication and talent. People admire this and this guy obviously enjoys the kudos he gets from doing it. It's exciting!
hmmm...does he want to buy my old p4 at 3.2ghz stock?
id sell it for 35% of whatever he makes from OCing it...
How much money do nerds make overclocking CPUs like this?To me, it's pretty pointless. Today, in real life situations, you'll probably never us a CPU overclocked that high. 4.0~4.2 Ghz is probably the norm for daily extreme overclockers. I have mine set around 3.6~4.0Ghz daily.
It's not about making money, it's his hobby. Just the same as car modification.
Kudos! But not that much 'cause its just a single core. If this is done for a quad core then all I can say is "Oh hell yeah!".
But Will it RUN the GRAPHICS on CPU rather than GPU?
Outstanding! I want to see the benchmarks, yes I want to see if it can tackle todays powerful cpu's like the i7's or even the powerful C2D's.
Global warming my friends, global warming.. hahaha.
8.20 Ghz!!!!!! Good God!
Anyway It's a celeron only
Oh poor Celeron
OMGosh, dinosaurs still roaming free...
WOW
And yes,It'll play CRYSIS
Celeron is just a name. If that same processor was renamed Core I3, will you guys be impressed?
Intel's timing was kind of bad with Netburst. They stopped it at 65nm, while the next shrink had much lower power use, and that what was holding back the clock speeds.
Netburst on 45nm would have had extremely high clock speeds. This Celeron would have gone way past 10 GHz. I've always wondered what the stock speeds would be on 45nm, but I would think 6 GHz would have been very easy consider how much more power efficient 45nm was.