Insane overclocking experiment is one for the record books.
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From the Mad Science Files comes the wild and woolly tale of the fastest X86 processor evar.
A team of overclockers -- presumably related to the nutbars who tweak car speakers to insane decibels -- have managed to squeeze just over 8 GHZ of power from a standard, off the shelf 3GHz Cedear Mill Pentium 4 631 processor. The secret? A liquid nitrogen cooling system, of course.
The famous chip was housed in an unmodified Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard for its maiden voyage, where it achieved record-breaking speeds of 7.4 GHZ In true Mythbusters' style however, the tweakers proved that anything worth doing is worth overdoing by modifying the P5B to accept further headroom (presumably by scissoring off the windshield and rollbars and replacing the gas tank with a jerrycan).
After modifications the board and chip combo hit maximum warp, aka 8000.1 GHZ This speed has been verified by the CPU-Z validator's hall of fame as the highest recorded frequency ever achieved on an X86 processor -- a 166% bus overclock.
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Check out the action shot of this bad boy belching smoke and whirring away at a core temperature of -190 Celsius, thanks to the nitro cooling. Rad.
If this unholy beast was alive and kicking, you know it would be the product of the Umbrella Corporation. Presumably you can even run Crysis on it! (Props to bit-tech for the story!)
This record four years ago, to view current records:http://valid.canardpc.com/records.php
