Jonathon Fitzgerald (aka Uncle Fester) joins Team Australia

New blood joins Team Australia’s ranks – Jonathon Fitzgerald (aka Uncle Fester) officially becomes a member in Australia’s top overclocking team.  Uncle Fester recently placed 3rd in Australian region GOOC 2010.  The official team members list:

• Dino Strkljevic – dinos22
• George Liu – eva2000
• James Trevaskis – pro / youngpro
• Jonathon Fitzgerald – Uncle Fester [new member joined July 19, 2010]
• Kayl Hosken – Kayl
• Peter Cave – bob(nz) [new member joined June 8, 2009]
• Tim Marshall – T_M

Also like to welcome back Tim from his near 2yr hiatus from overclocking.

Kayl Cascade making it’s rounds amongst the team.

Thanks to Peter – bob(nz), I’m now the proud owner of my first Kayl Cascade cooler – 2x 1.7HP unit.  This cascade cooling unit was built by fellow Team Australia team mate, Kayl for another team mate youngpro (James) and was then sold to another team mate bob(nz) and now it lands in my hands.

While I am busy with work right now, found some time to at least start up the cascade cooler to check if it survived the trip from South Australia to Brisbane.

Took a few photos and 11.5 minute edited video of the Kayl Cascade unit starting up – quite noisy. At around ~49 seconds into video I tested out the cold bug bypass switch, so you see a momentary increase in temps to -91.5C mark then I turned it off to end up with coldest temps of -111.6C on evap and -49.3C on first stage.

Power-mate wattage meter measured a peak at startup of 2695 watts, and average operating power consumption measured from the wall was between 1775 – 1795 watts at ~247-249 volts mains power. Checked my electricity box and while I have 1 phase mains (10A) – all my fuses show rated at 16A, so nothing tripped the safety switch.

The compressors definitely put out considerable heat starting off at +55C rising eventually to around +88C to +93C. Definitely will need a fan to cool those compressors.

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Youngpro takes SuperPI 32M world record with X58A-UD9

After returning from our amazing week of benching in Taiwan, I had only one regret. It was that I missed out on getting off a proper 32M run. Elmor was able to put up an amazing time but unfortunately with his platform we could not get the ram clocks as we wanted them. This is a replica of Elmors run but with higher ram clocks and you can see the difference it makes to the result.

Platform:

Gigabyte X58a-UD9, Corsair GTX2 2250 88824, Antec 1200OC

Please check out the thread for more info! http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=249307

Gigabyte X58A-UD9 takes all 3DMark Records with Team Australia

An amazing group of overclockers recently gathered in Taiwan to test the new Gigabyte X58A-UD9, the result? All the 3Dmark world records and Superpi 32M world record broken. The UD9 features the normal gigabyte build quality with PCIE spacing to accomodate 4  double slot GPUs and dual 8 pin power connectors. The big bonus on this board is it seems to be the most efficienct board for SuperPI which is definatly something that Gigabyte could not boast in the past.

Please check out the thread for more info. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=248891

Team.AU wins last round of F1OC.org competition and takes down 1M SuperPi W.R. with Gigabyte 790FX + Corsair Dominators

TeamAU won the last round of F1OC competition in AMD 8M SuperPi recently http://f1oc.org/latest-results/ and continued with AMD overclocking to grab the 1M SuperPi AMD W.R.

Test Configuration:
GIGABYTE 790FXTA-UD5 F2 official bios
AMD X4 965 Black Edition C3 week 44 retail
Thermolab custom gold “dinos22″ CPU pot
Corsair Dominator GTX 2250 DDR3 2GB modules (940MHz 6-6-6-18T-1T 1.7vdimm)
PCIe nvidia 8400GS
1200W Antec Quattro OC Edition PSU
300GB Velociraptor
Windows 2003 Server 110MB ISO Superlight

dinos22 appears on byteside.com tech TV channel extreme OCing live on air!

dinos22 from TeamAU makes an appearance on a recent tech TV show byteside.com. There was some extreme overclocking with P6T DLX V2 and Core i7 960 unofficially passing current W.R. frequency managing to hit 5777MHz live during show

Check out the TV show HERE

or download a better quality video HERE

Team Australia wins the first round of Gigabyte “Beat Me If You Dare Competition”

TeamAU proudly announces a win in Gigabyte

“Beat Me If You Dare Competition” held in month of October 2009.

Competition was based on Nvidia GeForce GTX260 platform

in 3DMARK Vantage Performance and Resident Evil 5.

TeamAU used an impressive MSI GeForce N260GTX Lightning graphics card!

Update: Gigabyte decided to allow late entries from

Hipro5 & Aristidis into the competition due to a timer issue

with their competition page however TeamAU was awarded

the US$3,000 prize as a winning team and classified 3rd officially.

GIGABYTE and Team Australia Win F1 OC P55 Challenge (official press release)

– GIGABYTE and Team Australia Win F1 OC P55 Challenge –

– Set new SuperPi 32m Intel Core™ i7 870 CPU world record with a GIGABYTE GA-P55-UD6 motherboard –

Taipei, Taiwan, October 2, 2009 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions proudly announced that the highest SuperPi 32m score in the September, 2009 F1 OC P55 challenge was achieved by Team Australia using a GIGABYTE GA-P55-UD6 motherboard. Team Indonesia, also using a GIGABYTE P55-UD6 motherboard, achieved a very respectable third place. With 13 top international teams competing, the challenge lasted from 1–30 September with every major motherboard brand represented in a tough competition using the very latest CPU and motherboard technology. Team AU will be taking home a prize purse of US$1,000 from GIGABYTE – GIGABYTE offers a standard prize of US$1,000 to any team who wins an F1 OC round using a GIGABYTE motherboard.

“We are delighted with our first and third place achievements in the P55 F1 OC challenge because it clearly demonstrates our innovation leadership in the motherboard industry,” said Tony Liao, Associate VP of Motherboard Marketing at GIGABYTE Technology Co. Ltd. “We salute Team Australia for their impressive win and resulting world record, and we look forward to more winning scores from them and other teams using GIGABYTE motherboards.”

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Team Australia wins the second round of F1OC (32M SuperPi round on P55 chipset)

youngpro and dinos22 from TeamAU have taken out top spot

in second round of F1OC to tie for first place overall with TeamEVGA.

You can read more HERE and at the official site

http://f1oc.org/ about the competition and latest results.

Results thread on Xtreme Systems can be viewed here with results and photos.

GOOC 2009 Finals Video

Long overdue, but here’s a video from Team Australia in world finals at GOOC 2009.