Overclocking Legends Push Intel Pentium 4 to 6.0GHz

[Unknown Soldier]

Yet another overclocking milestone has been passed by Intel‘s Pentium 4 microprocessor and Team Akiba that consists of two world’s top overclockers – macci and The Stilt. Using a modified ASUS P5P800 mainboard along with Intel Pentium 4 560 processor on Prescott core, the specialists known for their extreme overclocking experiences achieved unbelievable 6.009GHz speed.

News Source: XtremeSystems

 

[Killer-Kris]

Now what the really interesting news isn't this one overclock, but rather what this demonstrates. The P4 is thermally limited, and not interconnect limited. So when Intel shifts to 65nm with trigate, and all their other leakage prevention techniques P4 should scale to some rather impressive heights. Now if only someone could convince them to finally put an ondie memory controller in there somewhere they'll be able to really compete again.

 

[Sxotty]

Last I checked it could not complete benchmarks though is this still the case?

 

[epicstruggle]

whats the highest overclocked speed achieved by an amd chip? anything close?

epic

 

[Killer-Kris]

whats the highest overclocked speed achieved by an amd chip? anything close?

epic

I've heard the same people got an A64 upto 3.2GHz; though I haven't been able to find a link to it.

Overall I'm going to be a very happy consumer if Intel can get back into the performance game, yay for price wars!

 

[jvd]

3.2 ghz athlon 64 may be close in speed to that 6 ghz p4

 

[Killer-Kris]

3.2 ghz athlon 64 may be close in speed to that 6 ghz p4

I'd imagine they will be REALLY close, so yeah, we're all going to win in the long run .

 

[jvd]

3.2 ghz athlon 64 may be close in speed to that 6 ghz p4

I'd imagine they will be REALLY close, so yeah, we're all going to win in the long run .

i was being a bit sarcastic . I think a 3.5 athlon 64 would be needed .

 

[Killer-Kris]

3.2 ghz athlon 64 may be close in speed to that 6 ghz p4

I'd imagine they will be REALLY close, so yeah, we're all going to win in the long run .

i was being a bit sarcastic . I think a 3.5 athlon 64 would be needed .

I dunno, P4's performance probably won't scale so well in most apps since it is going to be massively starved for data. Granted the A64 will be in the same boat but with the ondie memory controller it probably has the upper hand in alleviating that problem.

Well either way things should be interesting and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing how they turn out.

 

[Thowllly]

3.6Ghz Athlon FX

 

[Sxotty]

Well with a clock like that it seems 3ghz is acheivable in the near term by AMD doesn't it? I mean on retail cpus btw.

 

[T2k]

3.2 ghz athlon 64 may be close in speed to that 6 ghz p4

I'd imagine they will be REALLY close, so yeah, we're all going to win in the long run .

i was being a bit sarcastic . I think a 3.5 athlon 64 would be needed .

Pardon?
Even a ~2GHz dual channel Athlon 64 beats the latest-greatest 3.6GHz (DDR2/etc) or 3.4GHz EE of Intel in most of the benchmarks: compression/decompression (WinRAR), multimedia encoding (Divx, OGG, MP3) gaming (UT botmatch) and we're not discussing about linear scaling.

This whole current P4 architecture is a dead end - Intel knows it very well.
I stated this long months ago: Prescott is DEAD.
Since then even Intel admitted it canning Tejas etc.
The only competitor they have is the mobile part - but that's not ready yet to be a successor on the desktop market.

 

[T2k]

Well with a clock like that it seems 3ghz is acheivable in the near term by AMD doesn't it? I mean on retail cpus btw.

Everything depends on their 90nm SOI: if it works out well and soon, they'll eventually beat the shit out of Intel. If not, they'll stay on David-sized company.

 

[jvd]

Pardon?
Even a ~2GHz dual channel Athlon 64 beats the latest-greatest 3.6GHz (DDR2/etc) or 3.4GHz EE of Intel in most of the benchmarks: compression/decompression (WinRAR), multimedia encoding (Divx, OGG, MP3) gaming (UT botmatch) and we're not discussing about linear scaling.

Right , 2ghz athlon 64 beating a 3.6 ghz p4 , that is 1.6 ghz diffrence . 3.2 ghz athlon 64 would be 2.8 ghz diffrence in speed . You think the athlon 64 could make up such a massive speed diffrence ?

 

[T2k]

Pardon?
Even a ~2GHz dual channel Athlon 64 beats the latest-greatest 3.6GHz (DDR2/etc) or 3.4GHz EE of Intel in most of the benchmarks: compression/decompression (WinRAR), multimedia encoding (Divx, OGG, MP3) gaming (UT botmatch) and we're not discussing about linear scaling.

Right , 2ghz athlon 64 beating a 3.6 ghz p4 , that is 1.6 ghz diffrence . 3.2 ghz athlon 64 would be 2.8 ghz diffrence in speed . You think the athlon 64 could make up such a massive speed diffrence ?

Depends on the benchmark. In compression, multimedia encoding the dual channel A64 ones REALLY leave the P4 in the dust.

 

[jvd]

Pardon?
Even a ~2GHz dual channel Athlon 64 beats the latest-greatest 3.6GHz (DDR2/etc) or 3.4GHz EE of Intel in most of the benchmarks: compression/decompression (WinRAR), multimedia encoding (Divx, OGG, MP3) gaming (UT botmatch) and we're not discussing about linear scaling.

Right , 2ghz athlon 64 beating a 3.6 ghz p4 , that is 1.6 ghz diffrence . 3.2 ghz athlon 64 would be 2.8 ghz diffrence in speed . You think the athlon 64 could make up such a massive speed diffrence ?

Depends on the benchmark. In compression, multimedia encoding the dual channel A64 ones REALLY leave the P4 in the dust.

But enough to negate and beat an almost double the clock speed advantage ?

 

[T2k]

Pardon?
Even a ~2GHz dual channel Athlon 64 beats the latest-greatest 3.6GHz (DDR2/etc) or 3.4GHz EE of Intel in most of the benchmarks: compression/decompression (WinRAR), multimedia encoding (Divx, OGG, MP3) gaming (UT botmatch) and we're not discussing about linear scaling.

Right , 2ghz athlon 64 beating a 3.6 ghz p4 , that is 1.6 ghz diffrence . 3.2 ghz athlon 64 would be 2.8 ghz diffrence in speed . You think the athlon 64 could make up such a massive speed diffrence ?

Depends on the benchmark. In compression, multimedia encoding the dual channel A64 ones REALLY leave the P4 in the dust.

But enough to negate and beat an almost double the clock speed advantage ?

Dunno. A 3400-3500 A64 would get around ~140secs in WinRAR compression where a 3.6P4 would get ~200 secs - that's a huge advantage in performance on Athlon side, despite the double sized cache and 60+ % clock advantage on the P4 side.

 

[jvd]

Yes i'm not saying the athlon wont win a few tests , but enough to make it faster than a 6ghz p4 ?

 

[T2k]

Yes i'm not saying the athlon wont win a few tests , but enough to make it faster than a 6ghz p4 ?

Geee... if it will win some tests then it'll be faste in those tests, yes.

What's your question actually?

 

[jvd]

Yes i'm not saying the athlon wont win a few tests , but enough to make it faster than a 6ghz p4 ?

Geee... if it will win some tests then it'll be faste in those tests, yes.

What's your question actually?

For us to consider a chip faster than another it has to win in a majority of tests Not one or two.