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[Blog]|Liquid Heaven| – |1090T X6 Under Liquid Nitrogen| – |6.6GHz+| 3 Comments By Slappa on June 11, 2011 As a benchmarker, the biggest milestone you will come across is your first plunge below -100C. Liquid Nitrogen is -196C by nature, and to utilize this exotic cooling material, you need a fantastic evaporator, or more commonly known as a pot. Much like dry ice, cooling the processor down this cold will decrease impedance that opposes electron flow. This allows for a more efficient circuit, promoting greater stability and overclocking headroom. After 2 years of research, waiting, gather...
[Blog] 2240MHz Mushkin Ridgeback RAM W/ Phenom II X6 1090T & 890FXA-UD5 0 Comments By Slappa on December 9, 2010 I was really surprised to see what these lovely sticks did today. This is the Mushkin Ridgeback 1600MHz 6-8-6-24 kit. On AMD, it is extremely difficult to run any ram above 2000MHz. Well today I broke a personal record and clocked these sticks all the way up to 2240MHz 8-10-6-15-1T. I used my trusty Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5 & Phenom II X6 1090T Setup. I did not expect these results at all, actually I did not expect my IMC to allow speeds this high. Turns out I have a great hardware combina...
[Blog] 5GHz Phenom II X6 1090T Cold Air 5 Comments By Slappa on December 5, 2010 Taking advantage of winter, I just broke 5GHz with cold air on my 1090T. Enjoy Video – 5GHz Phenom II X6 1090T Cold Air Phenom II X6 1090T Corsair H50 Watercooler (Performs Like High End Air) Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5 5GHz Core #1, 3000NB, 2000MHz 7-9-6 Ram Validation Post On My Blog
[Blog] Overclocking Dell Optiplex 320 – OEM Computer – P4 Prescott @ 3450MHz 1 Comment By Slappa on December 4, 2010 I’ve been using this Dell Optiplex for awhile now. It acts as my spare rig to use while I’m benching my other one, and I also use it for word processing and other simple tasks. I was just looking at the CPU-Z screen out of curiosity today, when I realized that an overclock on this machine is potentially possible. I was reminiscing on my A64 4200+ X2 HP days, when I managed to overclock the CPU 300MHz over stock using nothing but software (my very first overclock). Eventually I ...
|LN2Cooling.com Evaporator Under Dry Ice| – |Phenom II X6 1090T Overclocking| 1 Comment By Slappa on November 16, 2010 In part one, I showed the unboxing of the pot I received for testing. This is a very large, and well-designed evaporator mainly used for LN2 and LHe. I decided I’d just recreate the thread with part one and two so you guys can see it all in one place: I know some of you saw my recent dry ice runs on my Phenom II rig. In a few threads I discussed that for my next run I will have a different pot to play around with — and I assure you that promise was kept. The video is up! Click...
|Second Frost| – |Overclocking AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Under Dry Ice| 5.568GHz 0 Comments By Slappa on October 24, 2010 Hey guys, here is my most recent run. As you can see, I improved my results from my last run slightly. I also took a lot of video of the setup and of how I do my sessions. This is to give you an idea of what it is like to benchmark on dry ice. The Video: |Second Frost| – |Overclocking AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Under Dry Ice| 5.568GHz The Results: 32m SuperPi Personal Best – 13m 15.140s This was my 32m run. I cut 15 seconds on my previous result from my last dry ice run. 1m SuperPi ...
AMD Phenom II IMC and RAM Overclocking Guide 16 Comments By Slappa on October 14, 2010 Introduction Over the recent months I have watched and observed as the Phenom II CPU found its niche within various enthusiast communities and online forums. Users have been provided with an excellent, all around, 45nm AMD quadcore. However, there is one factor that people still find confusing and unclear. Overclocking the Phenom II. Why are people so confused? One reason may be because they add a lot of new variables and overclock differently than the competitors chip. Some may choose to see ...
Phenom II X6 DICE Run – Part 2: Results 7 Comments By Slappa on July 23, 2010 Hey guys. Sorry for the long wait. Video is now up Youtube – The Dry Ice Inception – Phenom II X6 1090T @ 5.5GHz The Setup The Results 5.547GHz Core #1 SS (Couldn’t get a valid at this speed for some reason) 5.5GHz Core #1 Validation 12.844s SuperPi 1m 13m 30.328s SuperPi 32m 4.93s wPrime 32m Now you guys see what I mean when I didn’t wanna hype it. Only a few results worth sharing. Next run I promise more results! Oh and there is an all 6 core max...
Phenom II X6 DICE Run – Part 1: Board + Pot Prep 8 Comments By Slappa on July 21, 2010 Hey guys, prepping for a DICE run tomorrow on my Phenom II X6 1090T Thought you guys would appreciate some pics Went to the store today and bought the following: Dielectric grease to coat the board to prevent condensation from getting at the electronics of this very precious motherboard. I couldn’t get any moldable eraser, so I though this would do. It said on the package that it was non-drying, non-cracking, and prevented seepage from water. It provides just the perfect seal to preven...
|Slappa’s Slushbox #2| – |4.8GHz X6 + 4.9GHz 1 Core| 3 Comments By Slappa on July 15, 2010 Hey guys. I did some more tuning, got more results. So I am throwing together my second slushbox blog. To see the first one, click here. I tried to place my rad in the cooler this time so that the ice covered more surface area. This resulted in idle temps of 0-1C. So i pushed my Phenom II X6 1090T even further. Here goes my second set of results. 4.806GHz All 6 Cores @ 1.648Vcore 1C idle – Validation It took me an hour to get this validation. I could only previously validate 4.73GHz. ...
|Slappa’s Slushbox| – |Phenom II X6 1090T| 5 Comments By Slappa on July 13, 2010 Long story short. Today I got pretty bored. I’ve been wanting to put my 1090T under dry ice for quite some time now. However, my bench partner has been busy with work so I could not obtain the dry ice pot. So I was thinking of ways I could cool down my processor, in order to play around with my new 6 core. Since I own a Corsair H50 AIO Watercooling kit, I decided to have some fun. I hung the radiator in an old lunch cooler and filled it to the brim with ice. I also threw a bit of water i...
|Canadian Winter – Two| 4 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 10 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 75 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 2 Comments 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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