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Jason Dunn
07-31-2008, 11:01 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/462-20-overclocking-world-record.html' target='_blank'>http://www.tomshardware.com/picture...rld-record.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"On Saturday February 23, members of the Jmax-Hardware, Tom's Hardware, and Tom's Guide forums met in the offices of Bestofmedia. They had come to try to set a new world record for overclocking. And they succeeded. The team consisted of 13 members: six from Jmax-Hardware, four from the Tom's Hardware forums, and three members of the Tom's Guide forums. The hardware used to set the record consisted of four test platforms; three using a liquid-nitrogen cooling system and one with a compressor-based (DoD or Direct-on-Die) cooling system."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com//dht/auto/1217541362.usr1.png" border="1" /></p><p>A picture is worth a thousand words: and <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/462-overclocking-world-record.html" target="_blank">that's one fast computer</a>! That's the same CPU I <a href="http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/89491/to-quad-or-not-to-quad-that-is-the-question.html" target="_blank">used in this article</a>, and sheesh, I couldn't get it past 2.83 Ghz. Guess I needed some liquid-nitrogen cooling...</p>

jeffd
08-01-2008, 06:27 AM
world record was sort of debunked over at engadget,
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/team-overclocks-core-2-quad-to-5-1ghz-claims-world-record-to/

although not quite so cut and dry because its a multi core cpu this time.