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[Blog] Overclocking with Power Saving Features Enabled….it’s getting better. 3 Comments By miahallen 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 ...
[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...
[Review] OCZ DDR3 PC3-10666 Platinum Low Voltage Memory Kit 2 Comments By Chew on May 23, 2010 Introduction Recently the good folks at OCZ sent us a set of budget ram to review. Now I know most of you hardcore overclocker’s are saying “pfft…” however, with budget RAM sometimes and often many times there can be found diamond’s in the rough. With that said, let’s see what you get. As we can see, the packaging is simple as to be expected with a budget set of memory. The platform we chose to test these sticks today consists of the following. Test Setup GI...
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’...
Overclockaholics.com 3DMark 01 Low Clock Challenge 1 Comment By 3oh6 on July 16, 2009 The idea of a low clock challenge is to provide a playing field for benchmarkers to prove their tweaking skills in a given benchmark. Setting specific limitations constructs the playing field and opens the doors to a lot of people to compete that might not have the newest or best hardware that a wide open competition would require. Overclockaholics.com recently had a low clock 3Dmark 01 challenge which locked CPU clocks to 4.2GHz and limited Nature Frames Per Second to 1200FPS for single card...
OC Report :: OCZ Blade 3×2GB PC3-17000 CL8 0 Comments By 3oh6 on July 10, 2009 My last OC Report just over a month ago was on a kit of memory I referred to in a review as the Goliath of memory from the first testament. This OC Report isn’t about some mere biblical fairy tale character, it is an all out Greek myth. Except this Greek hero isn’t some weak PC3-16000 kit of memory – ‘rolls eyes’ – this kit is straight from the top of mount Olympus. Hanging out with the Greek mythological gods, these sticks put Hermes and his winged shoes ...
EVGA X58 SLI CLassified – ‘MCH Strap’ Performance 7 Comments By 3oh6 on June 20, 2009 A recent forum post out there in the middle of the Australian portion of the internet – AKA i4memory.com – led me to investigate the performance impact of a BIOS option on the EVGA X58 3X SLI Classified. The option labeled ‘MCH Strap’ would indicate that it changes the latencies of the MCH, like on previous Intel chipsets such as the P965, P35, X48 and so on. The only catch is that the Intel X58 chipset, does not have an MCH (Memory Controller Hub). The Intel X58 chip...
OC Report :: OCZ Blade 3×2GB PC3-16000 CL7 3 Comments By 3oh6 on June 16, 2009 It feels like a lifetime ago that I did my last OC Report and in this industry, it pretty much has been. Well unfortunately for you, my almost 100% completely healed white ass is back, and I have brought some toys. OCZ has always been a name most of us here recognize but one that seems to have fallen off the radar at the upper end of the benching circles as of late. Maybe it is just me but I don’t hear OCZ anymore in the uber benching threads. With high performance i7 triple channel k...
EVGA X58 Classified Takes i7 920 Over 5.3GHz 3 Comments By 3oh6 on May 3, 2009 It was almost exactly a month ago that I took the Classified and its 965 occupant over the 5GHz mark and under seven minutes in 32M SuperPi. Well today, I took the baby nephew of the 965 – an Intel Core i7 920 – well over 5GHz and even further below seven minutes in 32M Super Pi. The trip started innocently enough with a locally purchased i7 920 sporting the date code 3845B026. Soon after some quick air testing, however, things took a turn towards the crazy track with the idea to t...
EVGA X58 Classified Goes Sub 7min…32M SPi 3 Comments By 3oh6 on April 4, 2009 The EVGA X58 3X SLI Classified has been much heralded in the enthusiast and overclocking forums and for very good reason. This particular 965 was only able to clock to around 5040MHz on both the EVGA X58 3X SLI and DFI X58-T3eH8 for 32M SPi. On the Classified, however, I was able to push this processor almost 100MHz more at the same pot temperature of around -75C. This extra 100MHz mated with a solid set of Corsair Dominator-GT 3×2GB DDR3-1866 7-8-7 memory, got me below the 7 minute mar...

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