Tech Reaction

Dry Ice is composed of frozen CO2 that is at a very chilly temperature of -78.5C. This frozen CO2 sublimes at atmospheric pressure, making it one of the best cold substances to use for extreme overclocking.

Yesterday, a friend and I (he goes by the alias “Addies”) did a fantastic 9 hour bench run.

The system setup was as follows:

Phenom II X4 955 BE
Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P
G.Skill Pi 1333MHz 7-7-7-18-1T
CF 4850s, GPU0: 700/1075MHz GPU1: 790/1100MHz
HX520w Corsair PSU, 300w Bestec for GPU0
Duniek Dry Ice Pot & 20 Pounds of DICE
Vista 32

Benchmarks:

SuperPi Mod 1.5
3DMark06
CPU-z

Our run ran late into the night. With my combined knowledge of the past 2 months overclocking these processors, we took our scores to the highest we could get.

We achieved a 5.040GHz Validation on the Phenom II X4 955 BE. Remember, this is a retail level chip. My previous run only netted me 4.725Ghz as my knowledge was limited.

With CF 4850s rolling, we got the CPU to 4.56GHz 3D Stable, with a NB clock of 3.36GHz. This netted us 23806 3DMarks.

Last but not least, we ramped up the clocks to attain a SuperPi speed of 14.461 seconds. We attained 14.415, but we did not screenshot it.

Enjoy these Pics/SS’s below: