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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

A rocket in the socket: the 4.1GHz PC

Anyone who wants the utimate performance PC today can zip off to Tom's Hardware Guide for The Iceman Cometh, a review of a 3GHz Pentium 4 overclocked to 4.1GHz. It runs Quake III at 435 frames/second. There are some nice pictures of the cooling system used to take the overclocked processor's temperature down to minus 50 degrees Celsius.

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