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Overclocking the Intel X6800 with Liquid Nitrogen (LN2)

Overclocking/Overclocking Tests by OCTB @ 2007-04-03

Using Liquid Nitrogen to control the CPU temperature to gain impressive increases in performances from the highest rated Intel Core 2 CPU. In this article the members of OCTB reach for a new high by chilling an X6800 well below zero.

Overclocking Results

Pouring the LN2 into the container we get smoke, a good sign as the liquid is evaporating and taking the heat of the CPU with it:

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The temperature at the base of the container drops quickly, we spot -145.4°C already, game-time!

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Our first try is a winner, 5161Mhz and a 9.921 seconds result for SuperPi 1M!

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But it’s not the end of this CPU, going just a tad higher we get 9.844 seconds at 5200Mhz!

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SuperPi stopped working correctly if we tried higher CPU speeds, but let’s see how far we can go without the system crashing:

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We thought 5234Mhz was the end, it took an extra few hours to tweak the setup but we got it running at 5300Mhz!

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We set out to reach below 10 seconds in SuperPi 1M and are happy to report we succeeded in doing so; Our result puts us 26th in the World Ranking at HWBot.org, not bad for a small Belgian team :)

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We like to thank Tim Titanium for lending us the OCZ memory modules and other Belgian overclockers for their continued support and and faith in us.

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