Another day, another pantsload of world records

If Ian Thorpe was a CPU, he'd be strapped to a chair in the Atomic Labs.

Issue #82 of Atomic is a CPU epic. We’ve got a mammoth CPU roundup, we’ve got CPU stories you’re going to want to eat – and we’ve got an extreme cooling feature the likes of which would make Satan crap his daks.

All day we played with LN2 and Dice, all night we played with Frozen Cascade, the one of a kind phase change cooler we just bought from phase change forum guru Kayl. This cooler is capable of consistent temperatures below -100°C.

And along the Atomic's Josh 'moloko' Collins just happened to break a few world records.

EIGHT top 5 records, including THREE NUMBER ONE SPOTS. Yes. Yes, of course we bloody did!

Liquid nitrogen arrives at Atomic reception, many flowers were snap frozen and smashed that wonderful day.

Very Atomic.

It turns out that the Intel Celeron 460 (based on the Core micro-architecture, core name Conroe-L) is a Celeron 300A reborn! The game was on!

Quickly stepping upwards through FSB frequency intervals of 10MHz, we then used intervals of 1MHz as we started to reach the limit.

Topping out at a 385MHz FSB (stock 200MHz) and utilising the maximum available multiple of 12, we had smashed our way through to 4620.3MHz from a stock 2400MHz processor. Stoked with the achievement, we then realised that we’d also managed to obtain the 3rd fastest maximum frequency of any Celeron 460 in the world – talk about icing on the cake!

Knowing our maximum limit, we started running some CPU and memory intensive benchmarks. These benchmarks were Super Pi 1M, Super Pi 32M, wPrime 32M and wPrime 1024M.

That gave us three more world records for the Celeron 460 class and an admirable 2nd to top it off –just missing the Cinderella story of a flat out 4 world records.

Dice, it's the nice ice that adds spice.

Knowing we were sitting on a gold mine of points for the HWBot challenge (www.hwbot.org) we gifted them to our mates at team i4memory.com, Australia’s leading HWBot team, helping Australia’s accelerating assault of the world wide overclocking rankings.

Check out the screenshots below to suss out the crazy speed of this little budget ripper.

Now that we own Frozen Cascade we’ll be punishing most new CPUs in the months ahead, and, we reckon, smashing more records while we’re at it.

Frozen Cascade, our new overclocking toy, being juiced by the Atomic Labs Support Team.

You can keep track of the action at the Atomic HWBot database.


Issue #82 is smoking hot. Onsale Nov 10th. Buy it.


The records:

World record 1st place Celeron 460 wPrime 1024M

World record 1st place Celeron 460 Super Pi 1M

World record 1st place Celeron 460 Super Pi 32M

2nd place Celeron 460 wPrime 32M

3rd place Celeron 460 CPU-Z


Whilst we were at it, we also scored:


3rd place Core 2 Extreme QX6850 wPrime 1024M

4th place Core 2 Extreme QX6850 wPrime 32M

4th place Core 2 Duo E6700 wPrime 32M


The brutally raw numbers:

C460 wPrime gold and silver medals 4505MHz 4-4-4-4 563MHhz

The 3rd fastest Celeron 460 in the world. Ours.

WR C460 15m 52.906s spi32m 4505MHz 4-4-4-4 563MHz

WR C460 15.297s spi32m 4620MHz 4-4-4-4 577.5MHz