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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...
[Blog] Mission Unlock // Overclock – Intel Core i7-875k 13 Comments By parelem on June 1, 2010 Recently, I was handed a large case marked “Mission: Unlock // Overclock” along with an envelop marked “Top Secret.” Intrigued, I opened the envelop to find a series of smaller envelops labeled with phase numbers. Proceeding with the mission, I opened the phase 1 envelop. Inside the envelop I found a USB key, aptly shaped like a key, accompanied by instructions to plug it into a computer. Upon plugging the key in, I was greeted by a series of statements to complete and the option to gene...
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] AMD Phenom II Six Core 1090T vs Core i7 920 Full Comparison 72 Comments By thebanik on May 6, 2010 Introduction Eight months ago AMD introduced their 2nd generation of Phenom 2 X4 Processors that was designed to use the AM3 socket while remaining backwards compatible with previous AM2/AM2+ motherboards. Although the Phenom II X4 965 was AMD’s flagship desktop processor, it wasn’t the performance that glued users on to it but rather the value for money it brought to the table. Alongwith processors like X 2 550/555 which could be unlocked to 4 cores depending upon the combin...
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AMD Phenom II X2 555BE a first look 3 Comments By Neuromancer on March 29, 2010 With the 965BE C3 stepping making so much noise in the AMD overclocking community it was bound to happen, AMD would release a core reduced version for people that did not need or want a quad core processor. The 555, like its predecessor the 550, is a dual core AMD processor based on the Phenom II architecture. The original 550BE was released with a half step lower multiplier and was based on the C2 stepping, although a subsequent C3 stepping has recently appeared on Newegg as a tray processor ...
[Blog] Single vs. Dual Triple 120mm Radiator 3 Comments By wez on March 11, 2010 My goal was to better understand the impact of adding a second 360 radiator, which in theory doubles the heat dissipation capability of your loop. But what does it bring to the table in terms of overclockability on the AM3 platform? Read on for a lightweight comparison between running one and two 360-sized radiators in a single loop, cooling a quad core AMD Phenom II CPU…………. TEST SETUP Liquid Cooling components Radiator(s): 1-2x Alphacool Nexxxos Xtreme III ...
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...
G.Skill F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI Memory 1 Comment By Buckeye on February 18, 2010 I had a chance to run a kit of G.Skill F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI Memory, Tri-Channel kit for Intel Core I7 CPU’s, through some tests the past few days. Before I go into all the results I want to touch on the market for these kits. If you do a search on Newegg you come up with 36 listings which range in price from $145.99 to $283.99 with kits in 6-7-6-18 to 9-9-9-27 timings, and 1.5v to 1.65v. So as you can see, this range of memory has a pretty wide selection of kits for what ever you are loo...
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…)
E8400 and Qx9650 Battle Windows 7, Windows XP, and Eachother : Who or What Will Reign Supreme? Part 2 2 Comments By The Duke on December 31, 2009 What will we cover in this installment of our adventure into figuring out all this ‘he said, she said’ mumbo jumbo? I will be exploring the STOCK e8400 and how it handles windows XP and windows 7. Do you lose a lot of performance by upgrading? We will find out later on. Is there a huge difference in anything the 2 operating systems do or is everything negligible? Hopefully we will find out later on. This segment could prove very informative for the average computer user who does no...
PCI POST Code Reader: Is it dead or can I revive it? 4 Comments By Archer on December 23, 2009 It really helps to know when it is time to give it up and with one of these little toys it is a little easier. A piece of hardware with a purpose from Budget Gadgets. The USB PCI PC Analyzer Diagnoses Card Tester seems to be just the thing to use before scrapping anything, or should I say save headaches before scrapping. I have tested this on many assumed dead boards and it worked well as it let me know I was correct and they were dead with a 00 code (int 19 error). You would think that I coul...
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 ...
Piecemeal Upgrades Pt 4 Data Protection 0 Comments By Neuromancer on December 21, 2009 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 be a nightmare trying to back up documents, photos, settings, applications as well as operating system tweaks one may prefer. Learning how to properly maintain y...
The Footage | The AMD Phenom II 7GHz Ascent | Light Speed 1 Comment By 64NOMIS on November 6, 2009 Looking back in time we see that Phenom II has been on a saga. If you cannot wait you can watch it now, or you can read the story and then revel that it was digitally transcribed for all time. At Quakecon 2009 on Saturday #1 rated overclocker K|ngp|n and our own Sami Makinen reached a record 7.088 GHz by overclocking AMD Phenom II on Dragon technology. Also, in front of a live audience we achieved the #3 3DMark06 record and ran the benchmark at a quad-core record of 6.6GHz. In Las Vegas in Janua...

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