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.
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.”
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.
dinos22 does 6m20s 32M SuperPi fastest time recorded
Hi guys
I did some testing tonight on LN2 last night and finally managed to grab a screen from latest SuperPi testing. It’s not as efficient as 2:10 CAS7 runs i’ve had at lower clocks but it allows me to bench very high CPU speeds
Here are some details.
dinos22 
- Test Configuration:
EVGA CLASSIFIED E760 (S610 bios)
Intel Core i7 960
6GB 2000GT Corsair Dominators CAS7 DDR3 > Week 22, 2009
Nvidia 8400GS Graphics Cards
1000W HX1000 Corsair PSU
F1EE pot on CPU
80GB SATA Hard Drive
Windows XP Pro 32bit SP3
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
Single Stage cooled Core i7 965 @5112MHz (-40C), 4965MHz 32M SuperPi
New toy is in the house > Intel Core i7 965
I tested it quickly on Single Stage to get an idea if its any good…Oh boy…i like it a lot 
Test Configuration:
* Gigabyte X58-UD5 F4f bios
* Intel Core i7 965es 3831A457
* 3GB 1866MHz CAS8 DDR3 Corsair Dominators (TR3X3G1866C8D)
* PCIe nVidia 8400GS
* 1000W HX1000 Corsair PSU
* SS Phase by C-BuZz
* 160GB IDE Hard Drive
* Windows XP Pro 32bit SP3 Lite
Ambient Temps: 22.5-23.3C
Evap temp idle: 41-41.6C
Evap temp load: 39.8-40.5C
MSI Wind U100 meets LN2 for Atom World Record
yeah its another stupid idea from Team Australia…
Get a msi wind notebook that has some preety nice overclocking abilities, a stick of ddr2 so-dimm and some ln2 and see what happens..
MSI Wind @ LN2
Setup:
MSI Wind U100 Netbook
Kingston 2GB DDR2 667Mhz SO-Dimm
Astra!
result? 2315mhz.. afaik its fastest speed of atom processor in notebook or desktop board.. also 2385mhz camera screens..
For more information please visit the original thread @ i4memory
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.
