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Wednesday, September 7, 2005

Crucial Gives Away Memory Modules, Graphics Cards. Crucial Launches a Giveaway Contest

Crucial Technology, a leading maker of memory modules and a supplier of some other PC components, has launched a giveaway contest in which participants can win a graphics card or a memory module kit from the company.

The contest runs from September 6 till October 6, 2005. In order to participate in this event you have to be a no less than 18 years old U.S. resident. Participants have to fill an entry form at Crucial’s web-site.

“Crucial is giving away two prize packages to equip your system with the two most important hardware upgrades: lots of memory and a smokin’ new graphics card. Our World Cyber Games Giveaway gives you a shot at winning one of two Crucial RADEON™ X800 Pro 256MB AGP graphics cards, plus a 1GB kit (2x 512MB) of Crucial PC3200 DDR memory to go with it!” reads a statement at Crucial’s web-site.

Two winners will be selected in a random drawing and announced on Crucial Technology homepage at crucial.com/wcg on or before November 1, 2005.

• Crucial.com: Enter Crucial’s Exclusive World Cyber Games Giveaway.

Intel Pentium 4 at 7.30GHz Beats Performance Records. Japanese Overclocker Sets SuperPI Record with 7.30GHz Pentium 4

Famous Japanese overclocker who calls himself Memesama has set a yet another world’s record in overclocking Intel Pentium 4 processor. This time the well-known computer enthusiast achieved 7.30GHz speed.

According to the statement issued by Memesama in his blog as well as in XtremeSystems web-site’s forum, the system managed to calculate π (pi) number to 1 million decimal places in approximately 17 seconds, which is the world’s record of today. Core-clock of 7304MHz is also the highest speed Intel Pentium 4 processor ever achieved. Earlier clock-speed record breaking – 7.13GHz – also belongs to Memesama.

The experiment was conducted on virtually the same system that was used to set the previous world’s record in both Intel Pentium 4 clock-speed as well as SuperPI benchmark result, but this time even higher microprocessor voltage was set.

In particular, Memesama used ASUS P5WD2 Premium mainboard powered by Intel i955X chipset, Corsair PC2-5400UL 512MB memory modules as well as Intel Pentium 4 670 processor with stock speed of 3.80GHz. The processor system bus was overclocked to 1537MHz; processor’s voltage was pumped up to 1.86V, significantly higher than default setting; memory latency settings were CL4 3-3-4, memory voltage was set to 2.26V. Liquid nitrogen was used for cooling down the microprocessor.

• Memesama’s Blog (in Japan) .
• XtremeSystems: Pentium 4 670 at 6925MHz – Bench-able. More than 7GHz Is Possible.
• X-bit labs: Intel’s Pentium 4 Overclocked to 7.1GHz, Sets World’s Record.