I arrived mid afternoon Friday and luckily I had no hardware casualties from the trip there, I met everyone when I arrived and it was really cool to meet those that I looked up at for so long. Vince was benching a killer rig (pics being kept under my hat ) and said after they were done they would get me set up with a rig to learn LN2. When I was being taught the ins and outs from everyone I was thinking that I had the opportunity to learn using LN2 from some of the best in the business and got a kick out of that. Shamino, K|ngp|n, Gomeler, Gautam, Vapor, 3oh6, Andre Yang, and Philly Boy were on hand with a few others to bench and hang out as well. I was set up to bench LN2 at a desk and was lucky enough to learn benching the Classified under LN2 by none other than Shamino, and that was a real treat to me. I was surprised how many Classified motherboards were on hand and then had to remind myself were I was and then it seemed normal. Over the weekend I saw a lot of records set and had a lot of fun -

I took some pics and think typing at 4:42am isn’t the best for blogging and will let the pics do the rest of the talking for me – notice how nonchalant Vince is as he fills his dewars LOL

The good photos of me were taken by 3oh6 (an awesome photographer)!

-TGE

TheGoat Eater Pouring LN2 - by 3oh6

TheGoat Eater - No Look Pour | by 3oh6

gomeler working the twkr

gautam working

Vince using the torch

Vince filling dewar

Vince

Gautam and Vapor's test rig

LN2 dewar

Partial Group Pic

You take the blue pill and it’s over, you wake up tomorrow and continue life as you know it and you believe what you want to believe.

You take the Green pill and I show you a world you never could have imagined in your wildest dreams where limits and boundaries are meant to be broken.

I obviously chose the Green pill

I will save the long drawn out speech for after the results…..So lets get right to the results….

I would like to state that in no way did I push this CPU to the limits in 2D….I had tuned my hardware for 100% efficiency prior to the trip to Austin.  I don’t use software tweaks, its not my thing and quite honestly I really don’t need them as I’m a firm believer that hardware tuning is greater than any software tuning can be.

System Configuration:

Gigabyte 790FXT-UD5P

AMD ??? CPU

PC P&C 1200W Turbo Cool + 750 Silencer

2×1GB Micron D9 GTR

2×2GB OCZ Animals

2 x Radeon HD 4890’s (3D)

Radeon HD 2600 Pro (2D)

Prototype Kingpin Pot

Prototype Phantom Pot by Aaron  Schradin

As always with me, I do not validate single cores, this is a 4 core validation also denoting I could have benched higher had I chosen to.

I ran some 3D with my 2×1GB set.

Not happy with the result and knowing I could squeeze a few more points out, I swapped to my OCZ 2×2GB sticks which I prefer for benching 3D.

All in all I had a great time and would like to take a moment to thank some people.

Special thanks goes out to Simon Solotko for being a believer.

Special thanks goes out to Vince AKA K|ngp|n.  It was an honor to bench next to you and an honor to use your prototype pot

This thing is a beast and is going to make benching LN2 so much more relaxing

Special thanks goes out to Aaron Shradin for letting me test the prototype acrylic see through LN2 pot.

I think this is the first piece of hardware I have ever used that looks cool and works 100%.

I also think this may be one of the best pots ever made in the pound for pound category….holding at -190 no load and -189.8 loaded.

Special thanks goes out to the rest of the AMD crew who was more than hospitable and helped to make this event possible right down to the engineers.

It was an honor to get invited and I truly hope I did not disappoint.

For those who may ever get a chance like this themselves, the best advice I can give you is to seize the moment and own it as this opportunity truly only comes once in a lifetime…