Further P4 overclocking/testing has resulted in a final configuration of 4.8GHZ and a 7900GS graphics card.

I'm pretty happy with these results!

2000 - 27346
2001 - 27866
2003 - 15986

Crazy to think that from 65nm to 10nm barely any clock speed was gained

myne wrote on 2025-09-12, 01:24:

Crazy to think that from 65nm to 10nm barely any clock speed was gained

The computational power is MUCH more though.

pete8475 wrote on 2025-09-12, 10:37:

myne wrote on 2025-09-12, 01:24:

Crazy to think that from 65nm to 10nm barely any clock speed was gained

The computational power is MUCH more though.

Even in the last 5-7 years the work achieved at the same clock speed for a given core on a current gen CPU is several times that of a top end CPU of, say, 2017. I'd rather have a current gen desktop CPU of 2024-2025 than a Xeon from 2017.

Clock speeds haven't increased massively, but you're right; tick-for-tick real world performance most definitely has. And more cores for the same price - what's not to like?