Just got in from doing the first day of some extreme overclocking, along with jdrom17 and another guy who isnt a member here (shame on him). So far I've only killed one component, my OCZ GameXtream 700W PSU
. Luckily my friend brought his Antec 470W PSU that came with his case. Not enough to run 3DMark06 with my 8800GTX apparently. We did break my SPi 1M records though. And now on to the pictures:
First we had to install a fresh version of XP x64. An ultra cut down version jdrom17 made.
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Then we started some actual overclocking. Obviously done outside, a nice cold -7C. Good thing we live in Canada
With the dry ice and ethanol the cpu was -92C.
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The highest temp we saw was around -70C.
The RAM was cooled by two 80mm Deltas, pushing a combined total of 214CFM. The northbridge was cooled by a nice powerful 120mm Delta, pushing 220CFM. MY 8800GTX was cooled by my liquid cooling system, running 50% alcohol so it wouldn't freeze outside.
Some more pictures of the setup running outside:
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The highest we could get the CPU to was 4.5GHz (or was it 4.7, I can't remember if we ever got that stable). SPi time was 11.464s. Hopefully once I get my new powersupply we can push that a bit further, and actually get some 3DMark06 runs in. Current 3DMark06 record is just under 15000. And the CPU was only at 4GHz for that.
I've still got more than half the dry ice left, so I'll be doing some more overclocking on Friday. More pics then, and I'll upload all the validation + screenshots.