Someone in China overclocked a 2006 Celeron to 8.3 Ghz as reported to hwBot

[WillyW]

Summary

User ivanqu0208 from China overclocked a Intel Celeron D 347 to 8362.21 mhz with what looks like a paper cup and ln2, and a Asus P5E64 WS Professional motherboard. While he didn't achieve the world record for that processor nor absolute highest CPU overclock, it was an impressive effort.

 

Quotes

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As impressive as 8,362.21MHz is out of a 14-year-old CPU, it’s not even the world record. According to HWBot, ivanqu0208’s overclock ranks in second place. The top overclock for the Celeron D 347, at 8,516.17MHz, was submitted by Chinese overclocker wytiwx back in 2013.

 

My thoughts

With the given shortages of all things gaming processors, now might be the best time to browse on eBay and find some old hardware to try to overclock.

 

Sources

Gizmodo article

HWBot

Techspot

[Kanna]

Well gaming doesn’t really need the ghz that much more the cores and threads 

[Letgomyleghoe]

" Ah, just chillin in the office, with an LN2 pot, overclocking my celeron 347, had to cool down my kool aid so i popped it in the LN2 pot for a minute, you can see it in the picture. Hope my manager doesn't see, you better not tell him."

[FakeFBI]

10 minutes ago, Kanna said:

Well gaming doesn’t really need the ghz that much more the cores and threads 

oooother way around, usaully today most games only use 2-4 cores max, unless its a strategy game with alot going on

[DoctorNick]

Arh Celeron D. I remember you well. Not able to play any game. Now who is laughing now, eh?

[FakeFBI]

4 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

Arh Celeron D. I remember you well. Not able to play any game. Now who is laughing now, eh?

cooooooooooorrect, any celeron today cant even run games.

[mahyar]

thats what i call a golden sample

[FakeFBI]

3 minutes ago, mahyar said:

thats what i call a golden sample

yes

[RejZoR]

LN2 pot is for rich pretentious overclockers. LN2 cup is the new stonks.

[Letgomyleghoe]

2 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

LN2 pot is for rich pretentious overclockers. LN2 cup is the new stonks.

he still has a pot, you can see it, for some reason he just decided to place a cup in the pot, I think this man is just such an extreme chad that he decided to cool his kool aid down in the LN2 pot. 

[RejZoR]

Ah, I think I know what he did. He used the cup as a funnel, so he can more easily pour LN into the pot which is usually quite narrow.

[Sandro Linux]

Pretty cool, still don't think it would perform well. Ghz aren't everything

[PlayStation 2]

3 minutes ago, Sandro Linux said:

Pretty cool, still don't think it would perform well. Ghz aren't everything

I mean, these Celeron Ds were total shit even back in the day as its cache setup really sucked. That combined with the terribleness of the Netburst architecture means that you're struggling to compete against Pentium IIIs from 1999... probably even at 8GHz.

[Spindel]

What the hell does that person work with, or where to be able to do this in the office?  

[Sandro Linux]

2 minutes ago, handymanshandle said:

I mean, these Celeron Ds were total shit even back in the day as its cache setup really sucked. That combined with the terribleness of the Netburst architecture means that you're struggling to compete against Pentium IIIs from 1999... probably even at 8GHz.

Yeah as I said GHZs is not all

[Kanna]

1 hour ago, ComputerBuilder said:

oooother way around, usaully today most games only use 2-4 cores max, unless its a strategy game with alot going on

Or unless it's onoptimized crap or graphical but that won't run anything modern really

[thechinchinsong]

2 hours ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

" Ah, just chillin in the office, with an LN2 pot, overclocking my celeron 347, had to cool down my kool aid so i popped it in the LN2 pot for a minute, you can see it in the picture. Hope my manager doesn't see, you better not tell him."

The standard grey office cubicle layout is what gets me the most.

[Levent]

gHz DoEsNt MeAn AnYtHiNg. Overclocking to this level was so much harder on older hardware, you would have to set the voltage to a extreme levels, set FSB low to begin with then hope that windows boots then start overclocking using SetFSB. They used to make such a big fuss out LN2 overclocking too, I remember seeing massive LN2 tanks brought into events for overclocking stuff.  Now the local ice cream shop has a tank full of LN2 for making icecream.

[Kanna]

1 minute ago, Levent said:

gHz DoEsNt MeAn AnYtHiNg. Overclocking to this level was so much harder on older hardware, you would have to set the voltage to a extreme levels, set FSB low to begin with then hope that windows boots then start overclocking using SetFSB. They used to make such a big fuss out LN2 overclocking too, I remember seeing massive LN2 tanks brought into events for overclocking stuff.  Now the local ice cream shop has a tank full of LN2 for making icecream.

Didn't say it wasn't impressive nor that GHz is just a number it still means but the way I read it is that OP mean since new CPUs are hard to get you should get this that is not what you should do

[Sauron]

It's especially funny that they're just doing this at their office  

[Jet_ski]

I see Intel 12th Gen has already leaked.

[Dabombinable]

It was the pinnacle of Netburst, of course they managed it. Only Bulldozer could compete with it when it came to LN2 clock speeds.

[Justaphysicsnerd]

Derbauer : Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be Legendary

[FakeFBI]

bois i found a video in russian i can read it. it says that they overclocked a fx to 10.2ghz and when playing pubg it hits 900fps max

[sub68]

7 hours ago, Spindel said:

What the hell does that person work with, or where to be able to do this in the office?  

 

 

8 hours ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

ou can see it in the picture. Hope my manager doesn't see, you better not tell him."

ok It looks like a asus office one the cubical beside the test is a rog sweatshirt.

also in that cubical you can see some sort of asus inventory tag on a back of a monitor