OC Team Italy does it again: 8180MHz !

[Andreas G]

It wasn't all that long ago we reported about the first result over 8GHz. It was OC Team Italy that had managed to push its golden Pentium 4 631 to 8001MHz. Well apparently they weren't happy with that as they've now managed to push another 179MHz to 8180Mhz.  Since the multiplier is locked they had to work with the FSB and push it to an incredible 545MHz. That's a 173% overclock, with a Pentium 4! During our Swedish Overclocking Championship we have similar results, but they are with Celerons running at 1.4-1.5Ghz stock. We congratulate ThuG and OC Team Italy for their amazing result and start to wonder if there perhaps is more than one golden Pentium 4 631...

[Delph1]

quicksilver: I just noticed your post in the other thread, you can take credit for it if you want

//Andreas
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[KTE]

I reckon they'll go further than that.

So some of this was done from software within Windows? Actually I don't recall what the Commando allows in BIOS, but it does allow that anyway, so it probably was just BIOS OC. I've seen it at 570FSB, so that's not a feat for it, but is for the CPU.

I wonder what the Vcore was and why they used 2 sticks of RAM if only going for high CPU OC's? Why not use 1 to attain max figures and for benching later use 2?