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the odds of a duron being overclocked to 3.8ghz are very remote. the older k7 chips were crap when it came to overclocking. however, we can not prove that these videos are real or fake. i have to partly agree with C38368 that the CPUID readings were probably spoofed, ots really easy to edit that kind of stuff in photoshop. however, we have no proof either way.
i did see these videos before, still pretty cool. i like to see things blow up!
the mac hater had no clue what he was talking about. he obviously has no clue how to use a computer, or a mouse, and probably at the bottom of the evolutionary chain. then he says he put everything together on a macintosh! WTF! good for a laugh though
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Last edited by Dragokatzov; January 22nd, 2006 at 02:37 PM.
the mac hater had no clue what he was talking about. he obviously has no clue how to use a computer, or a mouse, and probably at the bottom of the evolutionary chain. then he says he put everything together on a macintosh! WTF! good for a laugh though
Repeat after me: sarcasm.
@CC~ Simple enough: Durons cannot clock that high. Their design (particularly pipeline length) makes it impossible. The shots of the monitor were either showing photochops from another computer.
Another way way to tell is by the fact that the HSF wasn't attached; the Duron would've cooked itself by the time they got around to lifting it.
The same was true for the P4, except that those don't overheat, they just underclock to the point of freezing.
And I've seen chips overheat before. They don't explode, they just smoke. Sometimes a cap or two will pop, but that's it.
i don't doubt it was spoofed myself, either, but i just have to keep the slight chance if it actually being true in my mind, its someithng you learn if you go to the same university i do
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the dark art of overclocking 
(click the spoiler or watch it to find out how they cooled it)
(or if not, what was the fastest?)
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