What is the fastest intel processor?

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Not true at all. Intel would never intentionally design their chips to be overclocked.
Silicon based chips are always designed on the wafer to reach their peak performance potential (think the extreme chips). But for the most part, the chips are unable to sustain stable performance at those clock speeds. So instead of tossing the chips, Intel just lowers the clock speed and rebrands it as a new SKU.
This also applies to n-core chips in the future. Some cores don't may be problematic, so Intel will just turn off one or more of the cores and rebrand it. Think of an 8-core chip selling as a 6-core chip.
Semi's are already doing this in the embedded systems world. I was confused when freescale sent us some prototype dual core ARM's but only one core showed up in the bootROM. There response was, they forgot to change the SKU silk screen. And sure enough, they eventually did. Their single cores are actually dual cores, with one core disabled due to performance quality.
The MOBO makers on the other hand have everything to gain by including clock changing settings in their products.
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Most people mistaken OC as simply increasing the clock speed on the silicone.

There are many articles on the web about the Q66 and OC. Whoever interested can Google for them.
 
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Most people mistaken OC as simply increasing the clock speed on the silicone.

There are many articles on the web about the Q66 and OC. Whoever interested can Google for them.
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silicon is the 14th element on the periodic table and is used to make semiconductors.

silicone on the other hand is used in breast implants and is used to seal around windows...

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- mnx
 
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...silicone on the other hand is used in breast implants and is used to seal around windows...
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I have often wondered why I always felt a stir whenever I brushed up against a window.
 
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I have wondered why I always felt a stir whenever I brushed up against a window.
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Maybe when you retire you can get a part-time job as a window washer... you know, just to keep the juices flowing.
 
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Maybe when you retire you can get a part-time job as a window washer... you know, just to keep the juices flowing.
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meh... silicone doesn't do it for me. I like my windows all natural.
 
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meh... silicone doesn't do it for me. I like my windows all natural.
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Make a note.. as you get older, it' becomes "settle or nothing"...

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i use 45nm chip E8500 (3.0 stock) and overclock it to 3.7 without changing anything but the FSB. I am watercooled on a chip that INTEL intended to run rather cool compared to the "afterburner" HOT HOT chips of before.

When i check the temps after a few hours of letting it run and even play a moronic shooters game i once bought to TEST new setups (Tournament 2003), i pat myself on the face and say "GREAT BUILD". I can NOT get the temp of the cpu over 73 F.

Intel indeed intended the newer chips to be overclocked id desired as another tactic to smash AMD. From 3.0 to 3.7 and no voltage increase etc is dam good. Intel backed off on the HOT chips by lowering the clock speeds. This new chip (nethlem) just might be next build sooner than expected. I like the teens coming over and see how good my office puters are. This new chip will be blasted away when the 32nm chip comes out which looks to have completly new FSB or whatever. I am a trader not a computer whiz.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070918corp_a.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG1C5Hjg4EU

Correction : the chip i bought is the E8400 and i did take it up to 4.3 but have not played with it lately so just have it at 3.7 now, stable as marry a chinese broad in the old days. :D
 
Okay.

I have a Core2 Duo T8100 (Penryn).

All you tech savy people, can I overclock it easily (w/out changing voltages or doing anything physically), and will doing so reap significant and noticeable performance gains, without compromising stability?


Thanks.
 
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