Details Of Ivy Bridge Overclocking Attempts Hit The 'Net

Brink · 18 Apr 2012

With the rumored release of Ivy Bridge just around the corner, we're finally starting to see some early benchmarks roll in from the lucky few who have managed to lay hands on Intel's new CPU a bit early. Yesterday, we highlighted a review of an Ivy Bridge-rocking HP EliteBook, prompting several commenters to say "Desktop overclocking numbers or GTFO." Fortunately, some of those very benchmarks have popped up on the Web in the past 24 hours. (That's good, because we didn't feel like going anywhere.)

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ignatzatsonic · 18 Apr 2012

Super Pi 1M in 5.585 seconds.

A few comparison points:

Pentium 90, circa 1995: 35 minutes.

Pentium 3 at 733 mhz: 3 minutes 42 seconds

PC world record may 24, 2006, 11.359 seconds with a Conroe 2.66 overclocked to 4.470

Intel 2600K at 5.5 GHz: 6.786 seconds.