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.
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
- HD4870×2 (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
Uncore Frequency @4645.6Mhz
i7 920 3836A756 @4769Mhz Air Cooled!
Now that I’ve found my max Bclk limit of 228-230Blck, it’s time to revisit max i7 920 AIR overclocks with HT disabled 
Powermate wattage meter = ~280-295 watts idle and peaked at ~461 watts for total system power draw from the wall.
Room temp = 21.5C – 23.5C
System specs
- Intel Core i7 920 3836A756
- Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme + LGA1366 Bolt Thru kit + 2x 120×38mm Scythe UltraKaze 2000rpm 87cfm fans in push/pull
- DFI LP UT X58-T3EH8 R.A51 – 01/06 beta bios
- 128MB Gainward FX5200 PCI
- 2×1GB Corsair DDR3-2133C9DF Dominator + 1GB G.Skill PC3-12800HZ (3x Samsung HCF0)
- Ram cooling: 3x 60×25mm Sunon 23.5cfm Maglev fans
- 80GB Hitachi 7K80 SATAII
- Pioneer DVD-RW
- 1KW Corsair HX1000 psu
- WinXP Pro SP3 full nLite updated hotfixes / Windows 7 beta dual boot
Max screen capture capable @4680Mhz at 1.5875v bios
Intel Core i7 Singapore Launch Party – i7 965 Live 5+ Ghz benchmarks
Fellow Teamau.net and i4memory.com forum member, Tim Marshall (T_M) was invited to Intel’s Core i7 Singapore launch party and with a live audience and press attending overclocked and benched a Core i7 965 extreme edition processor on LN2 with Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 and GA-EX58-Extreme X58 motherboards. T_M also did some overclocking at Gigabyte’s Taiwan offices.
Hardware used:
- Intel – Core i7 965xe ES, 80Gb 25-M SSD, TRUE Extreme
- Gigabyte – UD5 and Extreme mobos, Core i7 965xe’s ES, 4870×2
- ADATA – Tri-channel 1600+ 8-8-8-24 (3 x 1 Gb kit)
Forum links:
- [Team.AU] Core i7 965xe, Gigabyte UD5/Extreme, ADATA 1600+ 3Gb
- [Team.AU] Intel Core i7 Launch Party – Singapore
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The Sydney Morning Herald – Geek extremists keep cool with liquid nitrogen
Dino Strkljevic
Fellow Team Australia team mate, dinos22 (Dino Strkljevic) gets some national press coverage in The Sydney Morning Herald article by Asher Moses titled – “Geek extremists keep cool with liquid nitrogren”.
Dino will be flying to Taiwan on September 25, 2008 to represent Team Australia at Gigabyte Overclocking Competition 2008. Originally, fellow team mate pro/youngpro (James Trevaskis) was to accompany Dino but had to pull out to to receive treatment for his recently diagnosed leukemia.
Team Australia’s representation at the competition doesn’t end there as team mate T_M (Tim Marshall) will also be at the event resprenting the Singaporean team (Tim currently resides in Singapore). Check out the article here. You can post your comments on the forums here.
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 45nm Wolfdale @5155-5320Mhz
Asus Commando takes on 45nm Wolfdale E8500 cpu. I decided to go back to Asus Commando as the motherboard was already prepared and insulated for Kayl Black FrozenSS 1/4HP phase change cooling.
- Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Q740A493T - Kayl Black FrozenSS 1/4HP - Asus Commando 1605 bios - 128MB Gainward FX5200 PCI - 2x1GB Team 6400C3 Micron D9GMH - 160GB Seagate 7200.7 SATA - 1200W Silverstone OP1200 or - 620W Corsair HX620 PSU - WinXP Pro SP2
CPUZ Validation @5320Mhz
Team Australia (Team.AU) launch at Atomic Live 2007
20th October 2007, Atomic Live at Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney
Today some of the best talent of Australian overclocking come together to officially launch Team Australia (Team.AU).
An overclocking team prepared to launch onto the world stage and take the Australian scene to the next level, all the while maintaining interaction with their roots and the Australian overclocking scene. This is a team of dedicated individuals coming together to push the barriers of today’s enthusiast computing technology.
Who is Team.AU?
Members were selected from the finest of the Australian overclocking community who have proven to take it to the next level. These individuals push the boundary and have been brought together to redefine the local and international scenes. So who are the people pushing the limits in Team Australia?
Please welcome the members of Team.AU:
