The new ice age: Athlon 4000+ Clawhammer Overclocking

Overclocking/Overclocking Tests by petervandamned @ 2005-06-10

The summer is coming and we like to keep our CPU running cool. In search for the highest overclock in the World with an Athlon 64 4000+ Clawhammer, will we succeed? Come and follow the path to the Ice Planet.

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Installing

The first time around installation took some time as I had made some extra preparations to avoid damage to my costly hardware.

  • Lapping the container’s base:

    Wax on Wax off

    Repeat that a few hundred times and this is the result

    Madshrimps (c)
    Madshrimps (c)


  • I used grind paper, starting with 100 and gradually working my way up until 1600 and finished with a copper wax.

    Madshrimps (c)


  • Next I cut some plexi to size:

    Madshrimps (c)


    Do remember this: cooling the CPU alone is not enough, take some fans for the memory sticks, chipset and motherboard mosfets!

    Madshrimps (c)


    Now let’s fill those tubes and start up the test systems ->
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