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|Canadian Winter – Two| 3 Comments By Slappa on December 29, 2009 After enjoying opening gifts and the atmosphere of the holidays I had almost forgotten about publishing a second blog. Back for the second part, here is Canadian Winter. To see the first part, click here. So at last, here is my second winter air blog. This time, I focused more on clocking my ram up to see how cold affects that. I used the same setup as previously. This mainly consists of my trusty Phenom II 955 X4 BE, Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P, and Ballistix D9GTS 2GB DDR3 set. Real quick I just wa...
Canadian Winter – One 8 Comments By Slappa on October 13, 2009 Back for my most recent blog post after a prolonged break from the OC scene, I bring to you some fun winter air testing. I used the same setup as previously. This mainly consists of my trusty Phenom II 955 X4 BE, Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P, and Ballistix D9GTS 2GB DDR3 set. Ahh, the familiar feeling of Canadian winter. A dreaded feeling for most, but hey, I’m an overclocker……and I like cold weather for one purpose…. As some of you may know, I had been struggling to break ...
What Is Phenom II TWKR? 6 Comments By Slappa on June 14, 2009 I wish I knew. Don’t we all? These are supposed to be Phenom II X4 chips that have overclocking capabilities that exceed any retail Phenom II part. Pretty cool, but there are still many unknowns that need to be answered before we can truly start to speculate on the potential of these new chips. Let’s start with what we know… What we know so far: TWKR = “Tweaker” -We can assume that this means this chip is a special performer for enthusiast overclockers Speci...
Dry Ice Run – Phenom II X4 955 BE 4 Comments By Slappa on May 30, 2009 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 ...
Phenom II AM3 Overclocking Essentials 55 Comments By Slappa on May 28, 2009 Ever wondered why you can’t get past 3.6GHz on that new Phenom II? Some may claim it is a bad chip, but I for one, can guarantee you that is almost always not the case. I have been overclocking this chip for weeks and studying how it acts while doing so. I may not be an AMD engineer, or an electrical engineer, but here is what I have found: 1) Voltage People always repeat the same/similar phrases about these chips “Up the voltage, AMD chips are tanks and can take it!” In fa...
AMD Overclocking Event In Texas, My Personal Experience 1 Comment By Slappa on May 26, 2009 Hey guys, thought I’d share. I had a similar article on my personal blog, but I have added more content just for techreaction.net. Hope you like it. AMD hosted a fantastic event for the prime purpose of overclocking the Phenom II’s to the utter limits. Records were shattered, the liquid helium and nitrogen kept flowing, overclockers worked around the clock, camera’s flashed and filmed, and processors and motherboards were killed in the process. I had the lucky opportunity to attend t...

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