Fastest Single Core CPU?

[Thorax_the_Impaler]

Hello everyone!

So I was researching this to curb my curiosity, and I read from a couple different online sources that, the fastest single core CPU clock speed ever recorded was 8.6GHz, and it was indeed an overclock of an existing processor. I do not know the conditions of the cooling system used, nor do i know which CPU model it was.

Does anyone know if this is correct? If it is, I have to say even for today's standards in processing 8.6GHz from one core is amazing.

 

[carnageX]

Hello everyone!

So I was researching this to curb my curiosity, and I read from a couple different online sources that, the fastest single core CPU clock speed ever recorded was 8.6GHz, and it was indeed an overclock of an existing processor. I do not know the conditions of the cooling system used, nor do i know which CPU model it was.

Does anyone know if this is correct? If it is, I have to say even for today's standards in processing 8.6GHz from one core is amazing.

It most likely would have been from LN2 (liquid nitrogen).

 

[PP Mguire]

Fastest single core CPU is a Celeron 347 at 8.4GHz cooled with LN2.

Fastest world record CPU to date is an AMD FX 8150 @ 8.7GHz cooled with LN2.

AndreYang`s CPU Frequency score: 8709 mhz with a FX-8150
wytiwx`s CPU Frequency score: 8452.67 mhz with a Celeron LGA775 347

CPU Frequency overclocking records @ HWBOT

 

[Thorax_the_Impaler]

Fastest single core CPU is a Celeron 347 at 8.4GHz cooled with LN2.

Fastest world record CPU to date is an AMD FX 8150 @ 8.7GHz cooled with LN2.

AndreYang`s CPU Frequency score: 8709 mhz with a FX-8150
wytiwx`s CPU Frequency score: 8452.67 mhz with a Celeron LGA775 347

CPU Frequency overclocking records @ HWBOT

I'm actually curious how it would feel using a machine with that processor speed.

 

[Oreo]

I'm actually curious how it would feel using a machine with that processor speed.

Not very good considering it would BSOD every 10 minutes even with LN2.

 

[PP Mguire]

I'm actually curious how it would feel using a machine with that processor speed.

Despite what Kman saying being true, it would still be slow. A Celery at 8GHz is still a Celery no matter what. It's of the old P4 Netburst architecture and so essentially still sucks mass amounts of ass.

The FX8150 has all but one module disabled.

 

[Veraster]

I was running a 3.4GHz Pentium 4 in my socket 478 motherboard several years ago and I thought I was pretty baddass. It was almost fast enough to pretend it wasn't netburst.

 

[PP Mguire]

Now try it again, you'll realize how **** it is lol.

 

[Thorax_the_Impaler]

Despite what Kman saying being true, it would still be slow. A Celery at 8GHz is still a Celery no matter what. It's of the old P4 Netburst architecture and so essentially still sucks mass amounts of ass.

The FX8150 has all but one module disabled.

I guess if your goal is clock speed then performance doesn't really matter; but that's still too bad it'd suck. 8.7GHz sounds like a number that'd blitz through quite a bit of data; at least in today's world.

 

[PP Mguire]

Well sure but to get those results they are using short bursts of LN2 and ramming the volts through the roof. They disable 90% of the chip and go for the highest GHz they can get stable enough to verify through CPU-Z. At those conditions they wouldn't be able to pull off any benches, let alone any kind of real work.