Overclocking in Finland ~ AMD-style
 

Some of you might know already, but for the next four days I'm in Finland benching with a lot of very good overclockers. Since I'm the first one to arrive, we will bench some Intel today first (950 + 4890) and tomorrow/saturday/sunday we'll fire up Phenom-II's.

Here's the official starting post at XtremeSystems:

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SF3D OC Gathering Vol. 1 -Powered by AMD

Hi all!

It is that time of the year again, when friends will gather around the same table and have best time of their lives.

Last year this event was smaller, but it was fun:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=194733

This time we will have bigger and better event in here Finland.

Who will take part ?



Giorgioprimo - Italy
Massman- Belgium
Elmor- Sweden
Dedal- Russia
Neoforce- Russia
Pofigist- Russia
Donny- Russia
Macci- Finland
Sampsa- Finland
SF3D- Finland

What parts we are going to use?



AMD Phenom II 945 BE ES CPU's
AMD Phenom II 955 BE ES & retail CPU's
AMD TWKR CPU's

790FX motherboards from different brands. (ASUS, GIGABYTE AND DFI)

ATI RADEON 4890 cards
ATI RADEON 4870X2 cards

What cooling method we are going to use?



Yes.. you got it right. We are going to use Liquid helium in the event and cool our CPU's to sub -230c

There will also be plenty of LN2 to play with. That is for loosers though :D

What will happen in general?

On Friday after all participants have arrived, we will go to my summerplace to have some fun. We will eat and drink. We will swim in the lake and go to sauna. Sun will not go down, but hopefully we do in some point :D

On Saturday we all will go to Pirkkahalli. We have a good place for overclocking in there with roof terrace and sauna etc. We will push the limits of hardware with LN2+ Lhe and hopefully we will finally see the magic 7GHz on the screen. 6.5Ghz 3Dmarks are on the target too. We will also try to push our 4890 cards to their limits and see what they can do.

After that we will go to town and eat + drink. When we are ready, we will go to some night club to show how nerds can move their hips :shocked:

On Sunday, we will hopefully do some sightseeing and maybe overclocking too.

Anything else?

We will have a lottery on Saturday. We will give away at least 3 x TWKR CPU's and at least 2 x 4890 cards. Everyone who will take part will get something to take home, so they can continue to do some serious OC in there too.

Will you ever stop talking?

Yes.. I only want to say few more words :p:

This will be one of the most exciting moments of 2009 for me and hopefully for our guests too.

I like to thank AMD (Simon), AMD Sweden (firefly) and AMD Finland (Macci have done a lot of hard work to make this event possible). Without them none of this would be possible :clap: Thank you!

Updates will start to come as soon as something is happening...

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Woot Woot :)

Bring some WR's back to Belgium if you like.

Good luck from M :)

how's the weather?:)

Testing i7 950

5.1G Vantage stable at 1.52v :)

Liquid Helium ?

Of course not haha.

-90°C

hehe, could be :p

Cpu testing done. Much more is possible, but the UD5 motherboard is giving big problems.

- 1.5v+ is no boot
- Gskill Perfect Storm still not completely compatible with F8c bios
- Pci-e at 106 works good, but not totally tested.

Still, very nice result for first 2h of testing this sample.

i am proud that your meeting with the big guys, belgium rocks !!!!!!!!!

so small and still so mutch talent !!

Have fun mate, we will enjoy ourselves with silly phase and
wannabe cascade then :)

Have fun there PJ ;).

Whats the batch?
Oyeah got the galaxy 9600Gt working: ure mounting a stock cooler = crap.

3844A920

Okay, goed om weten :).

nice
veel plezier daar,zowel tijdens als na het benche.
geniet maar van het uitzicht als je daar de kans voor hebt

Zonet eerste LHe sessie gehad ... zeer interessante resultaten :naughty:

He's alive !!!

ja dacht al dat hij was bevroren door al die LHe die ze terbechikking hebben

ge zou is zen stem moeten horen tijdens een LHe test :D!!!

seen that 7ghz nice one there, thought the sauna pic is funny: iris seen that ur heart is smaller then the rest :D.

Mayeb he didn't get excited by the male flesh in the sauna like the others did or the georgeous blond girl that took the picture

I didn't see a girl in that picture, I think there's only males there :p

Haha :D.

Anyway, terug thuis ... zonder bagage, blijven steken in Finland blijkbaar. Nu, in die bagage zit er iets héél interessants ;)

Een sauna ? :)

Who took the picture you think !!!

955 ? twkr? :p

De TWKR is minder goed dan de chip die ik mee heb naar huis ;)

Hopelijk worden er resultaten gepost...

Straks breng ik de Kingstons terug naar Alternate, nog enig nieuws van iets dat ik moe meebrengen ?

Intel heeft me een heads-up gestuurd dat er een 975 beschikbaar zou moeten zijn begin deze week bij Alternate ... maar nog geen officieel bericht. Dus nee :-).

alibrecht jij donderdag komen he ?
vergeet veel (geen slaap patroon atm :s)

ik rendez vous met bakker jongen blonde sex god uit Brugge om 1300 uur

meeneeme 1 benchxp, server Tweeduzdrie en 1 fles coca cola (puur, no light)

Anders wacht ik nog tem Donderdag voormiddag ? Neem je eventueel contact op met Vincent of dat okee is ?

Ik ga sowieso nog eens langs bij Alternate binnenkort, dus je hoeft niet speciaal te wachten. Ik denk dat ze daar ook liever hebben dat het kitje kan opgestuurd worden in RMA.

Okie Sjief

:woot:

That's a cheated/bugged run. Confirmed by AMD ;-)

welcom home massman
nu effe aclimatie zere.
hopelijk komt u waardevolle bagage bij u terecht

still, 7ghz looks amazing.

What's the difference between LN2 an LHe on a Phenom 2 ?

150~200MHz.

Luggage has arrived