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Written by Dusan Srbljak
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Thursday, 05 April 2007 |
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There are bunch of categories and subcategories where you can compete. On this web site you can find base with all world records, including everlasting tables. Beside maximal overclock (herein after referred to as max-clock) of CPU, GPU, RAM memory, there are tables with best results in benchmark applications (3DMark, PCMark, Aquamark, SuperPi and similar). The most popular is category of processors, and there are as many subcategories as there are processors. That is why we are going to outline CPU. Benchmark application used for measuring CPU speed is called SuperPi.
SuperPi is an app which calculates given number of decimals of number π (Pi). It is commonly known that number π has indefinite number of decimals. Maximal possible number of decimals that can be calculated by SuperPi program is 32 million (32M). The higher processor frequency, the shorter time in SuperPi is. In order to achieve shortest possible time, it is not enough to achieve highest possible frequency, but it is also important to have fine adjustment of complete hardware and operating system (applied to all benchmark apps).
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OverClocking 
