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[Blog] Overclocking with Power Saving Features Enabled….it’s getting better.
3 Comments By miahallen
closeAuthor: miahallen
Name: Jeremiah Allen
Email: miahallen.ironmods@gmail.com
Site: http://www.ironmods.com
About: Well, I was playing with computers ever since my Dad got a Commodore 64 when I was 6 years old (1986), when I was 10 (1990) he bought a custom build 486DX33, and I was in love. Mostly back then I was just a kid playing games, but my fascination with computers had a start. Because I had no money of my own, I was stuck playing with my Dad's computers, and really couldn't "play" too much. So in 1998, the year I graduated, I spent some of my college savings to by a "computer for school", haha. It had two Voodoo2 12MB 3D accelerators in it, so you can imagine how much school work was done on it ;-) It had an AMD K6-233 that I had a really mild OC on, but my custom computer builder friend Aaron had done all the work. So I can't really take the credit there. My fascination with graphics just kept growing and growing over the years, and I was constantly in a struggle to keep my games looking as sharp and smooth as possible. OCing played a big role.
My whole world was rocked in 2004 when I was deployed to Iraq as a US Army soldier. The whole year I was there I had a cheap IBM Thinkpad R40 with a 2GHz Celeron, 1GB DDR-333 RAM, a 60GB 4200RPM HDD, and ATI Radeon Mobility graphics (same technology as a 7000 series with only 16MB of memory). It started out rough as I was really into Command and Conquer Generals at the time, and the machine would only play the C&C slide show LOL. So, I downloaded PowerStrip, and OC'ed the GPU by 40%...amazingly, the game was playable!
Things changed dramatically in 2007 when I met a guy named Matt while I was stationed in Japan. He introduced me to www.ocforums.com, and the "Benchmarking Team" there. I had not had much interest in benchmarking previously, I always though of myself as more practical. But, I thought I'd play along and I joined the team. My first introduction to an actual competition was was is "The Raptor Pit", "Forum Warz 2008" in the spring of 2008. I was running a Q6600 and an 8800GTX. With air cooling I was able to bench my Q6600 at over 4GHz, and tore up the competition in my class. Overall OCF won the Forum War in 2007, Winter and Summer of 2008, and 2009...that means five in a row. I was not part of the first one in 2007, but the four since then, I have participated in. After winning the 2008 Winter and Summer Warz, Tom's Hardware Guide announced they were looking for nominations for individuals to compete in their first ever international overclocking competition, called "Overdrive". I was nominated, and chosen to compete in the North American semi-finals in Los Angeles in November 2008. I was placed on "Team IRONMODS" as they only had two guys, yet three man teams were allowed. We won the semi-finals in LA, and our prize was a trip to Paris the following month, to compete with the best in the world.
The following month, Ton, Jake, and myself flew to Paris as "Team USA" to face off against the best from Taiwan, France, Germany, and Italy. It was a very intense competition, but after two heated days of battle (16 hours of benching), we emerged the victors. Amidst our celebration, Ton and Jake officially invited me to join "Team IRONMODS" on a permanent basis, and I graciously accepted. Ton, aka "TiTON", is a world renown case moder, and is also very well known for some of the AMD overclocking he has done. Jake, aka "CPT.Planet", is a genius overclocker, and a really fun guy. The team has a great synergy when working together, we really have complementary styles.
After winning the world championship in December 2008 things were a bit quite for a couple months, then in the spring of 2009 I received an invitation to the 2nd annual Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship "GOOC". I would compete in the North American semi-final in LA, where the winner would win a ticket to the world championship in Taipei Taiwan during CES in June 2009. The competition was tough with 14 of the best from North America gathering for a 1 on 1 competition of OCing. But once again, I completed the competition well, and rose above the others. I won 1st place and the trip to the world finals in Taipei.
My luck ran dry in Taipei where I started off with a bad motherboard, and went through 5 more during the course of the competition due to various reasons. Despite the poor finish in Taipei, I have high hopes to redeem myself next year.See Authors Posts (2) on September 1, 2010
This post isn’t meant to be contain groundbreaking information. I just wanted to report my successes with the Gigabyte X58A-UD7. Many people have been talking about the possibilities of OCing while leaving power saving features enabled. I’d been wanting to play with it a bit, but hadn’t had much motivation. But the hot summer days are taking a toll on me, and my room being in the mid 30s has prompted me to turn down the space heater under my desk
I haven’t been playing ...
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[Blog] AMD Turbo Core
0 Comments By zanzabar
closeAuthor: zanzabar
Name: Christopher
Email: zanzabar4ky7@yahoo.com
Site:
About: See Authors Posts (2) on August 31, 2010
With amd and intel having both added turbo with the last gen I thought that I would explain how amd turbo works.
To start, amd turbo works on all amd cpu’s that end in T with the parts ending in 0T having turbo go up to 2x extra (except black edition, but we will get to that later) and the ones with a 5T getting 2.5x. So if u have a 1055T then its a 2.8ghz cpu with a multi of 14x and turbo taking it to 16.5x and 3.3ghz, the 1090T is 3.2ghz with a multi 16x and turbo to 18x and 3.6ghz.Â...
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[Blog] Gaming in Tight Spaces…..mini-ITX (featuring Gigabyte, Silverstone, and Prolimatech)
8 Comments By miahallencloseAuthor: miahallen
Name: Jeremiah Allen
Email: miahallen.ironmods@gmail.com
Site: http://www.ironmods.com
About: Well, I was playing with computers ever since my Dad got a Commodore 64 when I was 6 years old (1986), when I was 10 (1990) he bought a custom build 486DX33, and I was in love. Mostly back then I was just a kid playing games, but my fascination with computers had a start. Because I had no money of my own, I was stuck playing with my Dad's computers, and really couldn't "play" too much. So in 1998, the year I graduated, I spent some of my college savings to by a "computer for school", haha. It had two Voodoo2 12MB 3D accelerators in it, so you can imagine how much school work was done on it ;-) It had an AMD K6-233 that I had a really mild OC on, but my custom computer builder friend Aaron had done all the work. So I can't really take the credit there. My fascination with graphics just kept growing and growing over the years, and I was constantly in a struggle to keep my games looking as sharp and smooth as possible. OCing played a big role.
My whole world was rocked in 2004 when I was deployed to Iraq as a US Army soldier. The whole year I was there I had a cheap IBM Thinkpad R40 with a 2GHz Celeron, 1GB DDR-333 RAM, a 60GB 4200RPM HDD, and ATI Radeon Mobility graphics (same technology as a 7000 series with only 16MB of memory). It started out rough as I was really into Command and Conquer Generals at the time, and the machine would only play the C&C slide show LOL. So, I downloaded PowerStrip, and OC'ed the GPU by 40%...amazingly, the game was playable!
Things changed dramatically in 2007 when I met a guy named Matt while I was stationed in Japan. He introduced me to www.ocforums.com, and the "Benchmarking Team" there. I had not had much interest in benchmarking previously, I always though of myself as more practical. But, I thought I'd play along and I joined the team. My first introduction to an actual competition was was is "The Raptor Pit", "Forum Warz 2008" in the spring of 2008. I was running a Q6600 and an 8800GTX. With air cooling I was able to bench my Q6600 at over 4GHz, and tore up the competition in my class. Overall OCF won the Forum War in 2007, Winter and Summer of 2008, and 2009...that means five in a row. I was not part of the first one in 2007, but the four since then, I have participated in. After winning the 2008 Winter and Summer Warz, Tom's Hardware Guide announced they were looking for nominations for individuals to compete in their first ever international overclocking competition, called "Overdrive". I was nominated, and chosen to compete in the North American semi-finals in Los Angeles in November 2008. I was placed on "Team IRONMODS" as they only had two guys, yet three man teams were allowed. We won the semi-finals in LA, and our prize was a trip to Paris the following month, to compete with the best in the world.
The following month, Ton, Jake, and myself flew to Paris as "Team USA" to face off against the best from Taiwan, France, Germany, and Italy. It was a very intense competition, but after two heated days of battle (16 hours of benching), we emerged the victors. Amidst our celebration, Ton and Jake officially invited me to join "Team IRONMODS" on a permanent basis, and I graciously accepted. Ton, aka "TiTON", is a world renown case moder, and is also very well known for some of the AMD overclocking he has done. Jake, aka "CPT.Planet", is a genius overclocker, and a really fun guy. The team has a great synergy when working together, we really have complementary styles.
After winning the world championship in December 2008 things were a bit quite for a couple months, then in the spring of 2009 I received an invitation to the 2nd annual Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship "GOOC". I would compete in the North American semi-final in LA, where the winner would win a ticket to the world championship in Taipei Taiwan during CES in June 2009. The competition was tough with 14 of the best from North America gathering for a 1 on 1 competition of OCing. But once again, I completed the competition well, and rose above the others. I won 1st place and the trip to the world finals in Taipei.
My luck ran dry in Taipei where I started off with a bad motherboard, and went through 5 more during the course of the competition due to various reasons. Despite the poor finish in Taipei, I have high hopes to redeem myself next year.See Authors Posts (2) on August 13, 2010
History of mini-ITX
I was sitting in my office, browsing tech news online almost a decade ago when I first saw the mini-ITX form factor. My mind immediately started fantasizing about the possibilities such a small system would afford. Thoughts of internet terminals built into kitchen cupboards, or car PCs entertained my imagination for years. As the early VIA based systems got into reviewers’ hands and performance results started hitting the press, like many others, I was left wanting. ...
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[Review] ASUS P7P55D-E PRO – A Step Above (UPDATE 8/11)
6 Comments By Archer
closeAuthor: Archer
Name: Kevin Marlin
Email: kevinsmarlin@embarqmail.com
Site: http://www.techreaction.net
About: See Authors Posts (11) on August 9, 2010
Introduction:
A motherboard is probably the single most important component to the enthusiast. For a person in the know, this is pretty obvious, but for a newer user this may come as new information. Many forums as well as review sites fail to reveal the big picture, and there are a plethora of components used in the assembly of today’s motherboards that frankly most people don’t even understand. This hodgepodge of devices can range from cheap, make-shift components to high quality,...
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2010 Gigabyte GOOC Live Coverage – Opening Ceremony
2 Comments By Jake
closeAuthor: Jake
Name: Jake Crimmins
Email: mrjake22@gmail.com
Site: http://www.techreaction.net
About: See Authors Posts (4) 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...
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TechREACTION.net – Blog & Win – ASUS August Giveaway!
5 Comments By EnJoY
closeAuthor: EnJoY
Name: Alex Joy
Email: alex@techreaction.net
Site: http://www.techreaction.net
About: See Authors Posts (45) on August 1, 2010
All registered Bloggers have the chance to win free hardware at least once a month forever!
That’s right! FREE HARDWARE! Just for being a registered and active blogger of TechREACTION.net.
How do I sign up? Simple, first register at this page to become a TR blogger. Once you receive your account information, half the job is done.
Second, go to the TechREACTION forums and register there as well. You must be registered in both places to be eligible.
Bloggers are given s...
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[Blog] Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 Motherboard Review
6 Comments By Deux
closeAuthor: Deux
Name: Patrick VanValzah
Email: patrick@vanvalzah.com
Site:
About: See Authors Posts (1) on June 5, 2010
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 Motherboard Review
Patrick “Deux” VanValzah
First off, I’d like to make sure you know what you’re going to get from this review. This isn’t going to be your run of the mill motherboard review where I ramble about the number of USB and SATA ports and run meaningless tests comparing motherboards and drawing conclusions from the tiny differences between boards. First I’m going to briefly discuss the features and layout of the board keep...
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Asus M4A89TD PRO – Short Review and Benchmarks
2 Comments By mav2000
closeAuthor: mav2000
Name: Ashish Mehta
Email: ashish.dm@gmail.com
Site:
About: See Authors Posts (18) on May 19, 2010
Recently our friends at Asus sent across their new 890FX board, the M4A89TD Pro. With this board, the total number of boards that Asus plans to have with the 890FX chipset are around four. The range topper will be the Crosshair IV Extreme, which is still to be released, followed by the Crosshair IV Formula which we reviewed earlier, the M4A89TD Pro USB3.0 and finally this one. The last two boards have a great ancestor in the M4A790 series and I hope they will live up to the name. They have hardl...
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Asus Crosshair IV Formula 890FX – Performance Review
13 Comments By mav2000closeAuthor: mav2000
Name: Ashish Mehta
Email: ashish.dm@gmail.com
Site:
About: See Authors Posts (18) on April 27, 2010
Introduction
Welcome to the performance review of the new 890FX chipset and more specifically, the Asus Crosshair IV Formula motherboard.
We have already done an extensive pictorial preview of the board and today we are going to concentrate more on the performance of this board. We are going to compare the board to the MSI GD 70 790FX board. As many of you know, the MSI GD70 was one of the best 790FX based boards and was regularly considered amongst the big boys.
The main focus of this review i...
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[Preview] Unboxing of the Asus Crosshair IV Formula 890FX
5 Comments By mav2000closeAuthor: mav2000
Name: Ashish Mehta
Email: ashish.dm@gmail.com
Site:
About: See Authors Posts (18) on April 22, 2010
Introduction
Asus launched the first of the Republic of Gamers (ROG) series for the AMD platform way back in 2007, calling it the Asus Crosshair for the AM2 platform, which was based on the Nvidia nForce 590 chipset. The second in the series was the Asus Crosshair II Formula, which was based on the Nvidia 780a chipset. The third in the series is the Crosshair III Formula and this time Asus did the smart thing and ditched the Nvidia chipsets. They went ahead with the brand new 790FX chipset and m...
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EVGA March Blogger Giveaway! Here is the winner…
2 Comments By EnJoYcloseAuthor: EnJoY
Name: Alex Joy
Email: alex@techreaction.net
Site: http://www.techreaction.net
About: See Authors Posts (45) on April 1, 2010
It’s that time again when a monthly blogging giveaway comes to an end and another begins. This past month was sponsored very graciously by EVGA. They offered up one of their P55 motherboards, specifically the EVGA P55 132-LF-E655-KR.
EVGA P55 Motherboard
The Winner of the March Blogger Giveaway is carpo93!
Congratulations to carpo93, and thank you to EVGA for sponsoring. Stay tuned for April’s giveaway announcement later on today.
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[Blog] ASUS MAXIMUS III EXTREME
3 Comments By giorgioprimo
closeAuthor: giorgioprimo
Name: massmiliano calandrini
Email: giorgioprimo@gmail.com
Site:
About: See Authors Posts (1) on March 30, 2010
Since I saw it at CEBIT 2010 in Hannover i felt in love and finally got the chance to test it
The most attractive thing was the Bluetooth IRog module
The I/O section and the bundle are pretty stuffed
The power sections for CPU and RAM are fully enforced
Firstable started some test on air-cooling to check the capability of Bclock and Ram frequency ( different sets of timing)
let’s see how far is possible to push the RAM
230 bclock and 2300 RAM 3D benchable on air ̷...
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[Blog] EVGA X58 3X SLI
1 Comment By Lu523
closeAuthor: Lu523
Name: Gary Owen
Email: owen2863@bellsouth.net
Site:
About: See Authors Posts (2) on March 4, 2010
I was very happy with the X58 SLI LE. I wanted to build another cruncher so I decided to pick up the 3X SLI for the extra cooling that comes with it. Anyway let’s take a look at it.
It has the same black and grey color scheme as the LE. It came with a few more acc. than the LE. No big deal as I did not even open them. The layout seems good. Like most new mobos it has onboard power and reset buttons. The reset button doubles as a hdd activity led. The rear cmos clear can be real handy for t...
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TechREACTION March Blogger Giveaway!
0 Comments By EnJoYcloseAuthor: EnJoY
Name: Alex Joy
Email: alex@techreaction.net
Site: http://www.techreaction.net
About: See Authors Posts (45) on March 2, 2010
March is a big month! In addition to our Twitter giveaway, we also have our monthly Blogger giveaway! Again, EVGA has been kind enough to sponsor a prize for our Bloggers for March. The rules are the same as always, and you can only win by being a registered Blogger. The prize will be an EVGA P55 132-LF-E655-KR.
Get all of the detail in the forums. Happy blogging!
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The TechREACTION.net & EVGA “Show Us Some Love” Twitter Giveaway!
13 Comments By EnJoYcloseAuthor: EnJoY
Name: Alex Joy
Email: alex@techreaction.net
Site: http://www.techreaction.net
About: See Authors Posts (45) 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...
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Review: Thermalright HR-05 IFX
1 Comment By The Duke
closeAuthor: The Duke
Name: D Briggs
Email: rfc_doobybiggs@hotmail.com
Site:
About: Just keeping it real for the average joe overclocker and computer user.See Authors Posts (49) on March 1, 2010
Our friends over at Thermalright shipped us a very appealing chipset heatsink. The HR-05 IFX is one of four in the series of chipset heatsinks Thermalright offers, at the moment. With all of the accomplishments of Thermalright’s CPU heatsinks, it  is very easy to overlook the rest of their solid catalog. Today we get to find out if the HR-05 IFX will live up to the great reputation of top quality products that  Thermalright produces.
Introduction:
Features:
Wild Fire design with incre...
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