Overclocker Takes Intel’s Ancient, 14-Year-Old Celeron D 347 Processor to 8.36 GHz

[Tsing]

Image: Intel



Overclockers never cease to amaze us with their curiosity and crazy feats. El Chapuzas Informatico (via MyDrivers) has reported on a new achievement from Chinese overclocker ivanqu0208, who decided to push the limits of Intel’s 14-year-old (2006) Celeron D 347 processor to an incredible 8.36 GHz. That happens to be an improvement of over 170 percent based on the CPU’s standard frequency of 3.06 GHz.



While the fastest record for this particular chip is actually 8.51 GHz, ivanqu0208’s feat...

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[Space_Ranger]

Holy ****e!

 

[Burticus]

Obligatory "can it play Crysis?" comment

 

[Auer]

Obligatory "can it play Crysis?" comment

It's "Can it play CP2077"

Boomers...

 

[Armenius]

It's "Can it play CP2077"

Boomers...

To be fair, this CPU is from the time period that Crysis first came out in.

 

[ThreeDee]

it would be interesting to see it's single core Cinebench score

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

To be fair, this CPU is from the time period that Crysis first came out in.

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I'd only add that the last figure should have an implant or something.

 

[Nanobot]

I'd only add that the last figure should have an implant or something.

I was thinking he should be looking down at his smartphone.