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2010 Gigabyte GOOC Live Coverage – Opening Ceremony 2 Comments By Jake on August 7, 2010 Gigabyte kicks off the North America 2010 GO OC live from the Pacific Palm Golf Resort in City of Industry, California. Eleven competitors from across the US and one Candian prepare to begin battle. T he overclockers will be using the Gigabyte X58A-UD7 motherboard with the Intel Core i7 980x processor. For ram they will be running Kingston 2250MHz PSC based modules. For the power supply Thermaltake provided the Toughpower 1200w. As the overclockers prepare to battle they will prep th...
|Slappa’s Slushbox| – |Phenom II X6 1090T| 3 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...
Tenma 72-7712 dual channel temp probe, what happens with temperatures inside a PC. 4 Comments By Archer on June 1, 2010 The 72-7712 Digital Thermometer from Tenma Test Equipment is a dual thermocouple meter with internal logging capability, USB output for saving logged data and software up-link. This unit can become an integral part of a PC testing arsenal by allowing for isolation of case hot spots, heat sink testing and LN2/Dry Ice work. The limitations start to change and the performance bar can be raised when you know where it is hot and where it is not. Compatible with K-, J-, T- and E- thermocouples (oth...
[Blog] Thermal Compounds: MX-3 Vs. AS5 4 Comments By The Duke on March 13, 2010 Curiosity killed the cat, but will it kill us? I went out and bought the new MX-3 thermal paste from Arctic Cooling. Until the other day, I have always used AS5 (Arctic Silver 5) for my important hardware. However, with all the rave reviews about the new MX-3, I decided to give it a try. Is all the banter about this product really true? I am on a mission to find out once and for all! MX-3 Packaging: The MX-3 comes in basic packaging as you can see. The big attention grabber on the package w...
The TechREACTION.net & EVGA “Show Us Some Love” Twitter Giveaway! 13 Comments By EnJoY on March 2, 2010 The TechREACTION team and EVGA got together the other day and tried to come up with an easy way to giveaway an EVGA P55 Classified 200 motherboard. We needed something simple and straightforward that allowed us to promote our website and EVGA, while making it easy for people to win. So we came up with the “Show Us Some Love” idea. Here’s how it works… The winner will be selected at random and the giveaway will run until Monday, March 15th. To win, all you have to do is fo...
Temps & Watts, CPU’s and Extreme Cooling, Part #2 0 Comments By Buckeye on February 26, 2010 Continuing along from Part #1 A few problems and sprung up that will effect the rest of the tests. The USB Temp monitoring probe is some what slow in response and it shows in some of the graphs. It also appears to be off in reading temps. The main problem with the temp probe is you can only use the probe they provided with the USB attachment, from what they told me its calibrated to each probe. So I cannot use any other probes that I have here on hand, the readings go way off if I use one of my ...
EVGA P55 Classified 200 Review 2 Comments By Jake on February 24, 2010 Introduction: Today we will be taking a look at the EVGA P55 Classified 200 the brother to their X58 Classified and X58 4-Way Classified motherboards. This board follows in the footsteps with the same color scheme as well as the same EATX form factor. The EVGA Team along with Peter “Shamino” Tan packed this board with all the features and overclocking options even the most hard core overclocker or enthusiast would want. Packing: Let’s take a look at the board and what it comes with. ...
Temps & Watts, CPU’s and Extreme Cooling, Part #1 3 Comments By Buckeye on February 18, 2010 In the beginning when I first started using different methods of extreme cooling the first unit I tested was a Jinu Single Stage Cooling unit that was custom made for me. This was an amazing cooling unit that included a Single Stage Phase Chiller installed in a TJ07 case. The TJ07 cooling tower sat next to what I called the main rig which was in another TJ07 case. It had a EVGA 790i SLI motherboard and a QX9770 which ran at 4.8ghz overclock for 24/7 use. It was an amazing machine that had so muc...
Clarkdale 661 on phase test 0 Comments By 0Ro! on February 13, 2010 Few days ago arrived a new clocking toy. An Intel Core i5 661 CPU with Clarkdale cores. Haven´t tested it on air or water, I moved straight to single stage phase change cooling. Insulated the mobo with kneeded rubber, mounted the cooling and started to play. (more…)
Chew* takes budget Athlon II X2 255 to it’s limit! 0 Comments By EnJoY on January 25, 2010 Chew*, a prominent TechREACTION community member, has used an old Prometeia Mach 1 phase-change cooling system to take a new budget Athlon II X2 255 CPU to it’s limits! Chew* wanted to show what the average user could achieve with this chip, and while Chew* is anything but average when it comes to tweaking, he did his best to dumb his results down for the rest of us. Starting with aircooling, he was able to net some impressive results. However, the real treat was when he slapped ...
[Quick Look] Razer LACHESIS a sexy, comfortable, almost perfect mouse. 0 Comments By Archer on January 25, 2010 What is the best attribute of a mouse? For me it is all about feel! If it does not feel right, I don’t care if it can take out the trash or even walk the dog, it is trash! Razer hit the nail on the head with the LACHESIS, for me the feel along with the tight crisp action makes this mouse a winner. Let me define my comfort, first and foremost is weight, this mouse has it. In a comparison with some brand name and generic mice it is on the heavy side of the scale for wired and approaching the...
Kingston Hyper-X KHX2000C8 Reviewed + AM3 DDR Clock Wall Broken! 0 Comments By EnJoY on December 29, 2009 Resident Overclocker Chew* has been busy in his lab again today, and this time he has more than a few treats for us. First up is his review the Kingston Hyper-X KHX2000C8D3T1K3/3GX triple-channel memory kit. He purchased the kit retail from Newegg as an inexpensive set for use in benching, but what he got was more than he had bargained for. While the kit itself proved to be a solid performer, however the real surprise came as he was finishing up his testing. Chew* decided to make a late ni...
Intel E8400 Going for Super PI 1M World Record! … Maybe? 2 Comments By The Duke on December 21, 2009 Well boredom has set in so to keep me occupied and out of trouble I have decided to go for Super PI world record with only a water cooling setup. Now you may say ‘Duke you are crazy it is only water cooled while the big boys are using LN2 and Cascades which makes you extremely outmatched.’ To you is say, buy me that stuff and you will see what I can do with the best. Plus, I will give you a shout out in my blog and be glad to link your site/blog/forum posts or hell, I will even link ...
Jaw’s updated and joys of buying used stuff! 0 Comments By KeZzZu on December 16, 2009 Hello again! Sorry about few days delay here, but what you can do about it. Nothing really… So i bough used PSU & Cellshock Black Edition C7-12800 4×1gb sticks. Okay, well first ill introduce my pc: Phenom II x2 550BE , True Black, Radeon HD3850 512mb, Asus M4A78T-E. Let’s start with PSU, bought it for 52 euros, not bad deal because it was Thermaltake ToughPower 750 watt. Few notes thought, it missed few modular cables… not big deal for me. So i started to put back tog...
C3 965BE for the TWKR in all of us 0 Comments By EnJoY on November 4, 2009 In case you haven’t seen it yet, you need to head on over to our forums and check out Chew’s review of the new C3 revision Phenom II 965 BE! In the review, Chew* tests this brand new silicon under every form of cooling imaginable, from straight air to liquid nitrogen! The review is extremely comprehensive from an overclocking perspective, so again, if you haven’t see it yet, what are you waiting for? C3 is here! FULL REVIEW – CLICK
Athens Digital Week 2009: 560L of LN2, lots of modding, lots of fun! 1 Comment By George_oc on October 22, 2009 Hellas Overclocking Team Members who made their appearance on bench stage: hipro5, tsan, zafiropo, phil, junior21, mortisboy, giorgos th., sofos1990, stelaras, pastelidis n.s., BenchZowner, crustytheclown, crio, TASOS, s@39@ and me. What hardware was used ? Well I have to admit, that we mostly tested hardware. That’s right… the majority of hardware wasn’t pre-tested on other cooling, apart from some CPUs that were previously tested on air or singlestage phase change coolingR...

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