Intel’s Core architecture and its Conroe model for the stationary market seems to be a real overclocking monster. We’ve already seen results of overclocks close to 4.0GHz using extreme cooling and as Intel’s Conroe processors are at best clocked at 2.6GHz stock this has to be considered quite an achievement. However, now overclocker Coolaler, which have been one of the most prominent ones, has taken the thing to a whole new level and overclocked his Conroe E6700 (2.6GHz) to unimaginable 4.53GHz by using liquid nitrogen. With this enormous speed and a bus running at neat 1.8GHz the Conroe performs almost unreal SuperPi 1M results.
We’ve earlier seen a Conroe processor at 3.9GHz landing at 12.984 seconds with SuperPi 1M, over 1.5 seconds slower than what Cooaler’s 4.53GHz Conroe performs. It namely took him 11.266 seconds to finish this calculation with a Conroe clocked at 4.53GHz. For those who have a hard time grasping how fast this really is you can compare it to the record with AMD’s fastest processor in the same test. The current record is at 20.844 seconds with an Athlon 64 FX-57 clocked at 4.05GHz. A difference hard to describe and even if SuperPi is a test that Intel’s architectures always have been very efficient with it is still a nice indication of the power of Intel’s new architecture. Now we’re just waiting for someone to climb down to 10 sec, or why not down to single digits?
