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[Blog] Single vs. Dual Triple 120mm Radiator 2 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...
Modern CPU communication bus architecture Intel (i5, i7, Core2) and AMD (Post AthlonXP) and it’s relation to overclocking 2 Comments By Archer on November 4, 2009 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 and with the data provided the problem is obvious, too much data for the old bus. As can be seen all information must take one path on the older architectu...
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
Guide to Understanding Intel Temperatures 0 Comments By randomizer on October 14, 2009 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 applies to members of the Core, Core 2 and Core i7 families of processors (including Pentium Dual Core and Core 2-based Celerons), not the older Pentium 4’...
Piece Meal Upgrades pt 3 0 Comments By Neuromancer on October 4, 2009 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, designing a system with affordable parts that also support upgrading over an extended period of time is the only option. While more money will be spent over the life of the upgrade, re...
Celeron 450 – All Category Gold Cups 3 Comments By Karmakazi on September 22, 2009 For my first blog, I am going to write about my latest overclocking endeavor. Eager to snatch some more hardware points over at HWBot, I decided to take a Celeron 450 for a spin. I first tried it in my Asus Rampage Extreme but as I have discovered in the past, these boards dont play nice with 200Mhz FSB CPU’s. So I swapped to a Gigabyte P45-UD3R, and I was all set to go. Cooling was accomplished via a TRUE 120 coupled with a Sanyo Denkai 220 CFM Monster Fan (a cool night and an o...

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