Overclocking

11 November 2006 - Shamino is toying around with some EVGA 8800GTX ACS3 cards and the latest test run on a single card left with with an amazing score of 17,597 3DMark06! Core clock is running at 842MHz and memory at 1240MHz with a QX6700 @ 4.5GHz. Check out his achievements here : http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=105774

12 September 2006 - We all know that the evil DFI has aborted her baby, the DFI LAN Party NF590 SLI Intel Motherboard. After nursing this bruised infant for a week now, and plastering her up with a prosthetic BIOS, she was up and benchmarking fiercely with the rage of an abandoned child...

14 August 2006 - I opened up the mailbox today and found a Gift from Hell....

6 August 2006 - Our Italian friends from MemoryExtreme has gathered 3 top overclockers- Max, Giampa and Giorgio primo together for a Liquid Nitrogen record smashing run with: Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe 2 x 1024 Team Group Extreme PC6400 Sapphire X1900 Master & PowerColor X1900XTX PC Power & Cooling Turbocool 1000w They hit an insane score of 26,972 points in 3D Mark 05, just 28 points from 27k! Running Liquid Nitrogen Cooling on the CPU and Dry Ice Cooling on the GPUs, the benchmark was obtained at 5011MHz CPU and 884/832Mhz GPUs! Congratulations on the earth shattering results! Check out more details over at the Italian site here.

1 August 2006 - Our overclocking Buddy from Taiwan, Coolaler has been up to some Liquid Nitrogen mischief again! This time, he acheives some very impressive scores in 3D Mark 2001 with his Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 running 3D at 5200MHz!! Simply awesome overclocking there. Take a look at his details and congratulate him here!

23 July 2006 - No doubt the ASUS P5WH is faster, having had bad luck with it, and no higher Multiplier available on the DFI 975X Infinity, it was definitely time to pay the Intel Bad Axe D975XBX Motherboard another visit! Both Cross-Fire and SLI were ran! Cross-Fire with Catalyst 6.6, SLI with modded 84.66 Forceware to run SLI on Intel Chipset flawlessly!

12 July 2006 - Though I'm stuck on the 11x Multiplier and 380+MHz FSB choke on the DFI 975X Infinity, I decided to do some Cross-Fireage overclocking for the hell of it. Setup Consists of Intel Core 2 Duo X6800, DFI 975X Infinity, ATi Powercolor X1900 Cross-Fire running mildly chilled water and 2 x 512MBCorsair 5400UL @ CL4-3-2-1 480MHz! It scores some impressive 3D Mark performance numbers with "only" 4.2GHz Conroe!!Check out the details and results here!

9 July 2006 - DDR2 Memory chipsets have matured and overclockers are starting to see DDR2 Memory sticks respond and scale very well with increased voltages. What was more than enough in the past seems limiting now. With just a sharpened pencil, you can take matters into your own hands... Voltage Mod your AM2 Foxconn C51XEM2AA and Intel Conroe supporting Gigabyte 965P DQ6!

9 November 2006 - At the launch of the the 8800GTX and 680i SLI Motherboard from NVIDIA, overclockers and enthusiasts are all traumatised by outrageous 3D benchmark records, performed by the legendary overclocker, KingPin. Basically, the guy totally turned the 3D Records inside out!!! 23K in 3D Mark 06, 30K in 05, 75K in 03....Unbelievable Carnage done!! Congratulate the King here!

16 August 2006 - We have ran some tests on a modified ASUS P5WDH Deluxe. Results are quite impressive. Take a look here.

12 August 2006 - Scythe, the Japan-based CPU Cooler maker is organizing an online "Overclock to the Max!" Contest extended to everyone on Planet Earth. Contestants are divided into 2 Categories, Air-Cooling and Extreme Cooling. For more details, check here.

3 August 2006 - Coolaler is breaking new SuperPi World Records every other day. His latest attack brought him down to 9.000 seconds in SuperPi 1M, less than a hair-line away from the 8 seconds frontier! Did it with Liquid Nitrogen Cooling on his Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 running at a jaw-dropping speed of 5526MHz, close to 2x the default clock speed! Huge congrats to him and he shows some more details here.

1 August 2006 - Futuremark, the leader in making 3D Benchmarks, has just opened up the floodgates to allow users to publish their Intel Core 2 Duo results. We have ran SLI @ x16 x16 with Intel Core 2 Duo and published some orthodorx SLI results using Futuremark Approved Drivers. Interesting results from a chipset you have not seen much of yet. Very interesting results, you may want to check it out...

19 July 2006 - Our dear friends at Coolaler has done it one again, attaining a very nice score of 9.64s, overclocking the Conroe 6800XE on SuperPi 1M!

10 July 2006 - The Intel 975XBX Board has risen in popularity in the past few months, not just among the mainstream users but also among the enthusiast and overclockers. As a motherboard targeted at the mainstream consumers however, it is quite limited in the voltage options offered in the BIOS, particularly the Memory Voltage. Shaky hands and the soldering iron is a big risk for a hard modification... perhaps you can handle a sharpened pencil better instead?

4 July 2006 - I have finished building the -30C Chiller for my 7950GX2s and X1900XTs. I've just tested overclocking the 7950GX2 on the Intel XBX Motherboard with Intel Conroe X6800. Click on to see the results!