Overclocking: Tom's Sets World Record

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The Record: 5,112 MHz with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4 GHz). That frequency was validated, but the team actually managed to attain 5,124 MHz (not validated).

In addition to the DFI motherboard and the Intel processor, the configuration had one 1 GB DIMM of DDR2 memory and a Geforce 8800 GTS 512 MB graphics card.

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[4T7]

I don't think its a world record well maybe for this particular processor

 

[amritpal2489]

Wow... amazing...

 

[xbonez]

whoa! thats more than a 100% overclock

 

[hellgate]

afaik Darklord also did something similar with a Q6600 under dice.

 

[nish_higher]

wth 2cores and 2 threads?
Q6600 has 4cores,4threads ! :O

 

[MetalheadGautham]

this must be old. penryn and nehalem OC much much much more.

 

[nish_higher]

^This is the Q6600 oc record and not the overall highest clock record
and i have not seen non extreme 45nm Q's going this far.but nehalems really kick all proccy's ***

 

[MetalheadGautham]

^^ in the penryn quads, the 9300 is supposed to be the best clocker because it has lesser L2 cache. Forgot the logic.

 

[nish_higher]

its unstable above 3.5ghz and starts heating up if more vcore is supplied.
the max OC i've seen so far is this
*www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&number=1&artpage=3431&articID=824
which is sub-zero
nowhere near Q9450 or Q6600

+ i dont understand the concept of using just 1 or 2 cores and disabling others for such OC's..can someone explain?