Intel Developer Forum Fall 2002 - Day 1: May the show begin

Intel Pentium 4 @ 4.7GHz

In the usual Intel style there was an overclocked Pentium 4 running behind the stage during the keynote.

We were walked backstage via camera to see Intel running the 0.13-micron Northwood based Pentium 4 reliably at 4.1GHz. The testers then decided to increase the clock speed of the processor, on the fly, as far as it would go before crashing.

Intel’s processor identification utility read 4.684GHz before the system crashed under Windows XP.

As usual, the CPU was supercooled with the actual type of super cooling left up to our imagination (you can expect a vapor phase refrigeration style of cooling).