The German overclocker under the pseudonym Kolby_Powers refreshed the stagnant current ranks of the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 chip (45nm Yorkfield-12M core) in the SuperPi – 32M discipline with a brand new record.
Armed with dry ice, a GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-UD3R motherboard, and a dual-channel DDR3 Corsair Dominator GT RAM kit, the enthusiast overclocked the processor to an impressive 4709MHz:
It should be noted that the frequency obtained by Kolby_Powers is not very low for a quad-core LGA 775-compatible processor, because under the cover of the Core 2 Quad Q9550 there are two 45-nm crystals at once, and overclocking the CPU data is associated with a painstaking selection of successful samples and a long system tuning (frequency and timings RAM, FSB, and so on).
The result of the bench session was the result of 9 minutes, 38 seconds and 860 milliseconds:
The last thing I would like to note: tests in the SuperPi – 32M discipline are most profitable to be carried out under the Windows XP operating system, but if for some reason the hardware refuses to work with XP, try Windows 7.
Source: Result page on the HWBot website
