Nearly 5000 MHz: TAGG claims two gold medals for Intel Celeron 430

Austrian overclocker TAGG is back at it, exploring the overclocking potential and benchmarking classic LGA 775 processors. This time, the enthusiast was determined to beat the scores of Germany's Digg_de and Russia's TerraRaptor, and he pulled it off.

Armed with a phase-change cooling system, TAGG pushed his Intel Celeron 430 to an impressive 4949 MHz. This high clock speed secured him the top spots in the CPU's rankings for both SuperPi - 1M and SuperPi - 32M:

The overclocker's test bench consisted of the following components:

• Motherboard: ASUS Rampage Extreme;

• RAM: two 2GB modules of Corsair Dominator GT with CL6.0 7-6-20 1T timings;

• Power supply: 850W SuperNOVA G2;

• OS: Windows XP SP3.

Source: The enthusiast's profile on HWBot