Intel has found themselves in the wake among enthusiasts after the launch of the Prescott core that shocked everybody with its enormous heat dissipation and lack of increased performance. Intel thought that they could increase the clock frequencies and therefore gain what was lost by adding another pipeline-step. Since then, Intel?s engineers have worked hard with refining the manufacturing technique and to reduce the current leakage in order to increase the frequencies. The stepping is now at its third edition and despite the fact that it still have problems with the heat dissipation; they have managed to get the CPU up to higher frequencies.

We will, as in the previous article, mainly concentrate on how much the CPU can be overclocked using different types of cooling-devices. To test the stability of the CPU we will be using the software SuperPi and even if the CPU doesn?t have to be very stabile to run a 1M calculation, it takes a lot more to run a 32M calculation.

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