how convenient. just in time for winter heating season.
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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Back when I had my Intel 3GHz Prescott working in tandem with the dustbuster Nvidia 5900XT, I honestly didn't need to turn on the heat during winter.
Comer on now. The i9 series are much better heaters.
Reminds me of school we got the new pentiums 2 with 300mhz back in the day, in an very compact case with very small fans, with our computer room under the roof, windows facing towards midday sun. In summer at around 2pm one after the other PC went into thermal shutdown, with maybe 5 of 20 PCs still running by 3pm. Opening windows did not help.
I had two Pentium D systems in roughly a 10x10 ft room. Never could close the window.
Sounds like my old 5820k + crossfire 6970 system. Made the real estate fix the AC in the spare room where the PC was just so I could stand the heat.
I am a bit confused as to how CPU-Z can confirm anything.
Doesn't it just read values that has been written to the chip and present the to the user? How does it confirm anything?
I think in this case "confirm" just means it is a second source saying it is a 4GHz Pentium 4. The first source of that information is just marker written on the CPU and thus considered less reliable.
I get what you mean, for me a confirmation would be if the CPU meta data was signed with an Intel key that could be verified.
There were hundreds of people with those back in the day on overclocking forums, a few got those chips to 6Ghz with liquid nitrogen.
The point is, this is not an overclocked chip.
The factory speeds for released chips topped out at 3.8 GHz, but this is a factory Pentium 4 with a base clock of 4GHz.
That's a weapon of mass destruction right there
Thermononnuclear weapon of desk destruction