SniperOZ officially joins Team Australia

Team Australia would like to officially welcome Carl Hollingsworth (SniperOZ) as it’s newest team member. Carl has shown great strength and efficiency in his 3D overclocking results and will make an excellent addition to Team Australia’s group. Forum discussion here.

Current official members of Team Australia:

  • Carl Hollingsworth – SniperOz [new member joined Jul 22, 2011]
  • Dean Smith – Deanzo [new member joined Oct 3, 2010]
  • 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

 

Dean Smith (aka Deanzo) joins Team Australia

Dean Smith (Deanzo) joins Team Australia as it’s newest member.  New Zealander Deanzo bring years of experience and maturity to the team, and we look forward to his presence in our team activities.  Deanzo shall continue to bench with Pure hwbot benching team, as Team.AU members are not based on hwbot team. Forum discussion here.

Current official members of Team Australia:

  • Dean Smith – Deanzo [new member joined Oct 3, 2010]
  • 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

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:

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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6GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000Mhz 7-8-7-20 Review Summary

Finally completed my 6GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000 7-8-7-20 review ! Quite a lengthy read for full results at 6GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000Mhz 7-8-7-20 Review

Preview summary below:

Xeon W3520 @4877Mhz H20

Been playing with my new Xeon W3520 cpu and managed to break alot of personal best benchmarks for max validation, max uncore frequency achieved, Super Pi 1M, 32M and Pi Fast on DFI UT X58-T3EH8 with just regular water cooling :)

  • Super Pi 32M HT Enabled max = 4677Mhz at 1.488v
  • Super Pi 32M HT Disabled max = 4794Mhz at 1.552v
  • CPUZ Validation HT Disabled max = 4877Mhz at 1.584v
  • Max Uncore Frequency = 4760Mhz !

System:

  • Intel Xeon W3520 3845A935 D0 (Xeon equivalent of Core i7 920 D0)
  • EK Supreme LT 1366 / FESER 480 / MCP655
  • DFI UT X58-T3EH8 04/28 beta
  • HD4870x2 (HIS 4870X2 to Asus Top bios) with ATI WinXP 9.5
  • 6GB Corsair Dominator GT DDR3-2000Mhz 7-8-7-20
  • 750GB Samsung SATAII
  • Silverstone OP1200 PSU
  • Triple boot – WinXP Pro SP3 / Vista Ultimate 64Bit SP2 / Win7 Ultimate 64bit RC

Max Validation @4877Mhz at 1.584v

Uncore Frequency @4645.6Mhz

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