Posts Tagged ‘cold’

My two part series about overclocking with subzero winter air. I will be adding on to this next winter. Part 1 Back for my most recent blog post after a prolonged break from the OC scene, I bring to you some fun winter air testing. I used the same setup as previously. This mainly consists [...]

Tuned my ram for this run. This allowed me to lower the NB speed and still beat my old result in my slushbox thread.

|Slappa’s Slushbox #2| @ techreaction.net I hit 4.806GHz all 6 cores on my Phenom II X6 1090T.

Check out my most recent cooling experiment on my brand new Phenom II X6 1090T |Slappa’s Slushbox| @ overclock.net |Slappa’s Slushbox| @ xtremesystems.org |Slappa’s Slushbox| @ techreaction.net

Hey guys. I’ve just about had it right now and heres why. I settled in last night for a cold air OC session with my usual setup. Popped open the window and began to OC. Halfway through bootup my comp simply shut down. I determined the problem to be my motherboard (MA790FXT-UD5P) , it seemed [...]

Hey guys, I’d like to share with you an excellent video summarizing the past few months of achievements that AMD has had with Phenom II. As many of you may know, I was involved in the Austin, Texas event. Check it out @ Youtube. Watch it in HD!

Hey guys, I recently won a small time benchmarking competition on OCN. Had tonnes of fun. You can check out the competition thread here. I managed to pull off all my scores a few days before the deadline. I used my regular setup, but through it in the windowsill for some cooler air intake. Here [...]

Finally, at last. The Canadian winter has helped settle my challenge to break 16 seconds on SuperPi 1M. Using the same chip and hardware as before, here is the result: A little Cinebench while I was at it: I also got a top validation of 4.452GHz. However, I used an outdated version of CPU-Z and [...]

4366MHz Validation   15 Seconds is so close! A few lower degrees ambient and I am golden. However, I did get a great new validation.

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