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Re:The Itanic Has Sunk by gpderetta on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:56AM (#28005915)
I Can't find any hit for 12ghz P4. I thought the record is around ~8GHz (And you can push modern processors in that ballpark).

I doubt that even a 8GHz P4 would be able to beat a lower clocked more modern design even on single threaded integer workloads. The P4 had a lot of glass jaws (the non-constant shifter, load replays on misses, very narrow decoder when running out of trace cache).

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Re:The Itanic Has Sunk by fogihujy on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:23AM (#28007667)
I've heard about 8+ GHZ Celerons (Netburst-based ones) and they were definitely on top a few years ago. I haven't kept track lately, though, and those records may have been beaten by now.
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Re:The Itanic Has Sunk by selectodude on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:51AM (#28009282)
https://valid.x86.fr/records.html

I think that's still pretty much the bible for frequency records.

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Re:The Itanic Has Sunk by ngold on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:16PM (#28013098)
That is crazy fascinating. It seems windows xp and celeron and amd fx chips with 2 to 4 gigs of ram are where it's at.
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