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 [...]

The Piecemeal Upgrade pt4 Data Protection: Redundancy, backups, offline and online storage. With limited funds in a single PC household it is important to have a PC that is never down for too long. One of the key problems associated with piecemeal upgrades however is the need to occasionally reinstall the operating system.  This can [...]

There seems to be some misunderstanding about what Hyper-Transport (HT-AMD), Quick Path Interconnect (QPI-Intel) and Front Side Bus (FSB-Intel and pre-A64 AMD) really are and their differences. First we need to clear the air: Socket 775 is dying (FSB is DEAD)! The FSB can no longer adequately support the information flow. In the diagram below [...]

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 [...]

Tired of reading one conflicting forum post about temperatures after another? This guide will help you understand some of the details behind temperature readings for current Intel processors. It also has a section for FAQs about temperatures. Some parts are a little technical but I have tried to keep it as understandable. This guide only [...]

With the P55 Core I5 mother boards that seem to be very popular these days Gigabyte has released its first uATX version of this platform, this motherboard takes off of the same lines as the P55-UD4P which is a very solid platform and I expect the uATX version will be also. So here is a [...]

Piece Meal Upgrades pt 3 As already discussed, a piece meal upgrade is performed when a jump to an entirely new platform is not financially possible. A ground up all new part design is best and will give the best price performance ratio if properly setup.  For those that cannot afford a complete rebuild though, [...]

Overclocking the Celeron 450 and taking Golds across the board at hwbot!