Intel Dothan Overclocking, going for 100% OC on Dry Ice

Overclocking/Overclocking Tests by Jort @ 2005-06-29

Today we go for a 100% overclock with a 1.6Ghz Pentium M Dothan CPU, using Dry Ice to cool the CPU this might be possible. To make things more interesting we also push an ATI X800 to its limit running it at -52?C.

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CPU on DI

20kg of dry ice pellets, size is 2cm on 1cm

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Temperature of dry ice, this is only in fast form. Dry ice sublimate at -78.5°

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And here’s the DI in action:

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Bit by bit temperatures are beginning to drop and just waiting for the sweet spot to go and boot the system:

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And I’ve reached the lowest temperature, -62.8° base temperature and -75.9 dry ice temperatures.

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The container is filled up to the maximum, it’s time…

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First goal is to obtain the fastest SuperPi 1Mb time, the temperatures are steady at -60°C idle and -59°C under load, after a few hours something interesting happened, but I’ll tell you more about in a bit, just remember the temperature of the base under load/idle.

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The sweet spot of the CPU was found after only a couple of minutes, the Dothan 1.6Ghz tops out at 3160Mhz, which is extremely close to a 100% OC!

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Now let’s add some graphical power and see where this system can take us ->
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