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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
  • 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

Max Validation @4877Mhz at 1.584v

Uncore Frequency @4645.6Mhz

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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 :D

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

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..

2315mhz validation

For more information please visit the original thread @ i4memory

The Sydney Morning Herald – Geek extremists keep cool with liquid nitrogen

Dino Strkljevic

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.

3DMark SLI + PCMark05 + FSB + 8400 Frequency World Records!

After returning from HongKong Asus Overclocking Championship, I had alot to prove to myself. I did this by taking four world records in a day!

1. new FSB wr, 734mhz
Lowering the NB temperature from -188 to -130 really helped me gain the 10mhz I needed.

Biostar I45 Tpower
E8500 @ -130
NB @ -130
Crucial Ballistix 8000

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=396491

2. E8400 frequency WR, 6213mhz
Newbeetle just posted an amazing speed with this motherboard but luckily my little board just had the steam to overhaul it.

Biostar I45 Tpower
E8400 ES @ -140
NB @ -130
Crucial Ballistix 8000

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=397886

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SuperPI 2M/4M/8M/16M World Record and 32m second place

After recieving my new E8600, I decided it was time to launch after some modpi records as the clocks I am getting are reasonably good, the results were preety nice!

Setup:
Biostar Tpower I45 (of course)
Crucial Ballistix 8000
E8600 Q820 599
FX5500

2nd place 32m

modpi 8m wr

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Triple SLI testing begins with Foxconn Dreadnought and 3 Nvidia GTX280s

A few weeks ago I recieved 3 Foxconn GTX280 cards and the highly anticipated Foxconn Dreadnought 790i motherboard.

After some intial testing, working out cpu maximum speed in vantage and testing each card individually it was time to approach the holy grail of of 3D benchmarking, 3DMark Vantage Triple SLI!

Setup:

Foxconn Dreadnought 790i
3x Foxconn GTX280
Corsair Dominator PC14400 sticks
Silverstone 1000OP
Featuring tek9 4.0s gpu and astra cpu pot

Some serious runs will be complete in the next two weeks, for now you will have to settle for two scary images ;)

For more information and updates please view i4memory

Youngpro and Biostar Tpower I45 take FSB world record! 724mhz

The biostar tpower i45 arrived a while ago after building a big reputation of high fsb. This was my goal, to achieve the maximum FSB I could, initially I was hoping for 650mhz.

I put my setup on phase change with my mate Andy (tuchans) crucial ballistix and immediately we were able to achieve 682mhz fsb. AMAZING! Northbridge was still on air and cpu at -40.

Next up of course had to be an attempt at 700mhz, to do this we put the northbridge on Ln2 @ -188 celcius, the CPU @ -130 degrees celcius and even put LN2 directly on the ram with tin foil! The result an amazing 724mhz and the front side bus overall world record.

Setup:

Biostar Tpower I45 w/ nb pot @ -188
Intel E8500 cpu w/ cpu pot @ -130
Crucial Ballistix 8500 sticks
FX5500 gpu
Silverstone 1000OP

 

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=378175 

 For more information please view the thread at i4memory

 

Youngpro takes 3DMark01 World Record!!

Yesterday I fired up the 9650, Foxconn Blackops x48 and 9800gx2, the results were very pleasing. My main benching goal has been achieved, the 3dmark01 world record!

System:

9650 @ 5820mhz (445 * 13) with Astra @ -140
Corsair Dominator pc14400 rams @ 895 6-6-3-5-16 1T
Foxconn Blackops X48 @ PL6
Foxconn 9800GX2 with Tek9 4.0 @ 1015 core, 2370 shader, 1050 rams
Silverstone 1000OP

ImageShack

3DMark01 Validation
Id really like to thank Foxconn for all their support, the blackops is certainly an impressive motherboard. I’d also like to thank Gigabyte, even though this score wasnt done on a Gigabyte board, they have done alot for me aswell! Their new board will sure be this exciting too!

Foxconn Dreadnought next for 3d01 sli!

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