A blast from the past! It appears someone has managed to overclock INTEL’s 14-year old Celeron D 347 CPU to almost 8.37 GHz with Liquid Nitrogen cooling. This 2006 single-core LEGACY Celeron D 347 CPU belongs to the Intel Celeron D 300-series family of processors codenamed as “Cedar Mill”.
In case you didn’t know, the final revision of Pentium 4 was Cedar Mill, released in January 2006. This was a die shrink of the Prescott-based 600 series core to 65 nm, with no real feature additions but significantly reduced power and thermal consumption.
Celeron D 347 CPU was based on Intel’s Netburst microarchitecture and made using 65nm process technology.
Recently one overclocker from China broke the 8.0 GHz barrier with his Celeron D 347 chip. This single-core Celeron D 347 chip has a default base frequency of 3.06 GHz, and an 86 Watts TDP.
The overclocker @Ivanqu0208 used the Asus P5E64 WS Professional motherboard which is based on the Intel X38 chipset for this processor, though we don’t know whether he did some modifications to the board’s voltage regulating module/VRM as well. This board supports the LGA 775 socket.
Achieving around 8362 MHz was no simple feat, and is a spectacular result for a 2006 chip made using Intel’s 65 nm process technology. But of course, you need Liquid Nitrogen/LN2 cooling to achieve such high clock speed values. Not what an average gamer would be doing on a daily basis, because this is all about breaking world records.
Regardless, this score is actually the 16th highest frequency ever achieved for an x86 processor, and has been validated by the CPU-Z software.
The highest OC score actually belongs to the Celeron D 352 processor which was overclocked by wytiwx to 8543 MHz.
AMD’s FX-8370 processor has the highest OC record of 8722 MHz though, which was also cooled using liquid nitrogen. “The Stilt” set this OC record in 2014.
Breaking the 8.0 GHz barrier is not an easy task, and only 117 processors have managed to pass it till now. Basically, mostly AMD’s FX 8000-series, as well as Intel’s Cedar Mill-based Celeron D/Pentium CPUs were able to hit 8.0 GHz or higher frequency.
IVANQU0208`s test setup, used for the Celeron D 347 chip:
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But, can it run crisis?
That’s a good question .:D
If the other components could match could be interesting. Crysis pretty was single threaded.
Well Netburst was originally intended to scale up to 10GHz over time, so close enough?
Has any CPU got past or even get very close to 10 GHz barrier though ?
No it hasn’t, that’s why I said originally intended. And the article goes into detail about the highest CPU clock speeds ever achieved.
Oh yeah, my bad…I didn’t notice that. Looks like 8722 MHz is the highest score thus far…
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lol
Wow, people still have these OLD processors, and Motherboards ? But how ? This won’t be available in Retail shops though. but in any case, the user must have taken good care of this CPU since he bought it.
These are Single core units, so that’s why they also easily overclock to 8 GHz ? Yup, obviously this is all bout breaking world records. We can’t do all this. But based on 65 nm process node, this is insanely high clock value, lol
He didn’t mention the Temperature reading value I think. Do organizations or companies still use these old Single core units ?
temp within MINUS degrees due to LN2 cooling, so the CPU won’t get hot at all. No chance in hell.
Easily? It took 14 years and LN2 with a very experienced overclocker.
Nope. I didn’t mean to say that OC was damn easy. I asked maybe this is a SINGLE core CPU, so that’s why he could achieve at least 8 Ghz clock speed ?
unlike other CPUs which are multi-core and multi-threaded in nature (where it is hard to achieve such high clock speed values, 8 Ghz that is).
Sorry I’m a noob when it comes to all this. So pardon my ignorance.
Some people actually have this passion for hardware
You can still buy these CPUs on Ebay for a couple of dollars so if you killed the CPU on a radical overclock it wouldn’t cost much.
Great ! I didn’t know about this. I thought these are obsolete and dead Hardware, so how can these sell even now ! Kind of strange though. I wonder what system drivers, BIOS version and OS will this CPU and that old motherboard support ! ?
IMO, anything above Windows XP OS might not work on his Asus P5E64 WS mobo.
sweet chin music plays while OCs !~