AMD ATHLON 64 X2 4200+ OC @ 8.06 Ghz ?????

READ BEFORE YOU MAKE A SILLY COMMENT.

Accidentally discovered I can seemingly unlock the mutiplier on my Athlon X2 4200+ and super overclock it. I set the priority to realtime on SuperPi and away she goes. First attempt she went even higher. 8.214Ghz ... What the ?&$% is happening? Actually it turns out to be a software glitch. By setting SuperPi priority to real time the monitoring software can not keep up with the system performance and hence shows false readings.

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[crazybuddhist]

The clock rate is the rate in cycles per second (measured in hertz) or the frequency of the clock in any synchronous circuit, such as a central processing unit (CPU). The clock period is measured in time units (not cycles) and is the time between successive cycles.

[kilralpine]

i like how his NB fan speed is 6700 LOL

[crazybuddhist]

@kilralpine It actually is that high ... it's a very nice NB cooler :) works well too.

[ImyManz99]

software clock = fail.

BIOS clock = win.

[crazybuddhist]

That is dumb ... really dumb.

Gigahertz -= 1000 Mhz these are scientific terms not computing so you DO NOT divide by 1024, but by 1000

n00b

[MichaelYoshiFan]

windows 2000?

[Edge0fPain]

1:06

lol 1 hz

[DACIIANDATACORE]

pure power but so far away

[7heReaper]

@Technorocker2008 i say 7

[crazybuddhist]

@Kabal0114 dufus read the info

[crazybuddhist]

@7heReaper 3 Billion actually:

"The first commercial PC, the Altair 8800 (by MITS), used an Intel 8080 CPU with a clock rate of 2 MHz (2 million cycles/second). The original IBM PC (c. 1981) had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (4,772,727 cycles/second). In 1995, Intel's P5 Pentium chip ran at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second), and in 2002, an Intel Pentium 4 model was introduced as the first CPU with a clock rate of 3 GHz (three billion cycles/second corresponding to ~0.3 10−9seconds per cycle)."

[crazybuddhist]

@craioveanu95 dufus

"The clock rate is the rate in cycles per second (measured in hertz) or the frequency of the clock in any synchronous circuit, such as a central processing unit (CPU). The clock period is measured in time units (not cycles) and is the time between successive cycles." Wikipedia