Overclocking: Tom's Sets World Record

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Earlier this year, our counterparts in France set out to break the overclocking record with a Core 2 Quad Q6600--and they succeeded.

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[chechnyan]

ohh my god how he could do that in the picture 11
its insane

 

[Acethechosenone]

Congrats Tom, a 5Ghz Q6600! Next step : Sponsorship from McDonald's

 

[JohnnyMash]

Nice job of hitting 5+GHz! While it is usually customary to go into huge amounts of detail when reporting a LN2 'dyno run', there is very little information and a couple too many shots of beaming tech-heads and them eating at Macca's, and general uninformative detail in system photos. Given that this is a 'world record', it was quite unspectacular.

Give the camera to that balding dude next time!

 

[outlw6669]

WTG Toms!
That is a hell of an overclock!

 

[caskachan]

ok so how many more pages do i have to skim trough to know the actual record?

 

[fallen2004]

wow dats impressive, kinda a waste of time n money bt stil its fun
Bt y use a P35 board wouldnt an X48 have been beter?

 

[lucuis]

Damn that's impressive. I wish it had any real world application though.

 

[3Ball]

Very impressive guys. Grats!

Best,

3Ball

 

[randomizer]

So what was the record, highest Q6600 clockspeed?

 

[jaragon13]

holy ****.

 

[cmashwin]

Why is the CPU-Z showing only 2 cores and 2 threads?? Were the other 2 cores disabled?? If so, its not REALLY valid right?"

 

[Noya]

Of course it's a non-USA Tom's...

 

[truehighroller]

I hope this isn't a double post first off. They were all kids?? I should have been invited. I could have beat that score. I would love to become a hardware tester for companies.

 

[martel80]

I would think that E7200 would beat Q6600 in overclock (if just GHz matters).

 

[cah027]

Wonder how fast you could shrink a 2 hour dvd with that !

 

[caamsa]

All that and no benchmarks............sigh...............

 

[Shadow703793]

While the overclocking is done mostly under Windows, a properly adjusted BIOS is an advantage.

:lol: You should NEVER OC through Windows.

A full spec set (ie. RAM,etc) would also have been useful. One fact to note was that the motherboard was based on the P35 chipset.

 

[LsRamAir]

Ummm, that isnt a Q6600 anymore once you deactivate half the cores. Its just a core 2 duo now, the real World Record needs to have cores 2 and 3 functioning... since they are less stable.

 

[martin0642]

Well, since they were there and setup already it would have been nice if they tested a processor that was actually nice, like a 45nm dual-core part. Less complexity, an extreme edition that was bin sorted, and smaller fab might have resulted in a higher clock. Not that going from 2.4 to 5.1 on a quad isn't impressive in and of itself, it is, but since everyone was already dressed up you might as well do the full party.

 

[physx7]

Wow... Will be interesting to know what kind of benchies that will get.

Good article

 

[badge]

Stable at over 5GHz and France didn't surrender?

 

[physx7]

So what was the record, highest Q6600 clockspeed?

''The Record: 5,112 MHz with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2 (2.4 GHz). That frequency was validated, but the team actually managed to attain 5,124 MHz (not validated).''

 

[thurst0n]

That is CRAZY! Nice!

 

[aevm]

Why do I need to click 20 images just to see what CPU, what motherboard, what frequency. And I still don't know anything about the RAM.

I'd rather buy a second PC with a Q6600, instead of making all that mess and spending all those dollars on cute cooling solutions. The GF would kill me if I filled the room with machinery just to have a CPU at 5GHz instead of 3GHz.

It's like that old story about NASA spending millions to develop a pen that writes in space, rather than just using a pencil.