Austrian overclocker TAGG sets multiple records with Intel Pentium E5300

The LGA775 platform remains incredibly popular within the overclocking community, not just for its relatively low cost, but also for the satisfaction derived from pushing its limits.

Overclocking LGA775 CPUs offers a much more romantic challenge than simply adjusting multipliers on most modern processors. Today, Austrian overclocker TAGG delighted us with two new records on the once-popular, budget-friendly Intel Pentium E5300:

The enthusiast secured the first-place ranking in the Pentium E5300 model category for the SuperPi - 1M benchmark.

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To achieve this, he had to use liquid nitrogen and push the processor to a clock speed of 5852 MHz:

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The final result was 9 seconds and 391 milliseconds.

The second record is arguably even more impressive: a first-place finish in the wPrime - 32m discipline for the same CPU model category.

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Here, TAGG couldn't maintain the same CPU frequency, with it dropping to 5785 MHz:

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This allowed the overclocker to achieve a time of 12 seconds and 916 milliseconds.

Pretty impressive results.

The record-breaking test bench configuration was as follows:

TAGG utilized a top-tier LGA775 motherboard, specifically the ASUS Rampage Extreme, based on the X48 chipset. Two sticks of Corsair Dominator GTX2 RAM were installed in the memory slots. As is typical for CPU-only benchmarks, a basic GeForce 9500GT served as the graphics card placeholder.

Surprisingly, TAGG even specified his power supply: an EVGA SuperNova G2 850W unit.

In the comments section for one of his results, TAGG also answered a question about how many processors he went through to achieve these records:

Given their low cost, that's entirely believable.

Source: TAGG's profile on HWBot