Overclocking is something most computer users has come in the vicinty off, one way or another. During the Swedish Championship we arrange every year the focus on overclocking is more than ever here at NordicHardware. Last year Robert “Crotale” Kihlberg took home the category for Percentual Overclocking, where we’re talking about pure processor overclocking. Since then Robert has been a respected member of our staff and published several interesting articles and reviews. Now Robert has a new article ready that is about just that, extreme processor overclocking. The concept is the same as with the earlier Athlon 64 FX-57 article, I.e simply to overclock a processor as much as possible with different cooling methods. However this time its a Pentium 4 660 processor which is tested. Worth mentioning is that in this article Robert uses yet another type of cooling, namely a cascade system. A cooling system consisting out of two compressors to reach temperatures down to -100°C. Those who wants to see some extreme processor overlocking this is the article for you.
“We will, as in the previous article, mainly concentrate on how much the CPU can be overclocked using different types of cooling devices. To test the stability of the CPU we will be using the software SuperPi and even if the CPU doesn’t have to be very stabile to run a 1M calculation, it takes a lot more to run a 32M calculation.”
