At a press event this morning, AMD overclocked engineering samples of the upcoming 45nm Phenom II processors using air, liquid, phase change, and liquid nitrogen cooling. On air, they didn’t hit 4GHz, but easily broke the barrier with liquid cooling and phase change. Liquid nitrogen netted speeds over 6GHz.
No photos were allowed at the event, but TechReport was present and took notes.
Hexus.tv overclocks the Core i7 with liquid nitrogen and air cooling.
t-break overclocks the Core i7 965 EE Nehalem and recounts their experiences.
It’s called Awardfabrik OverClocking Meisterschaft which I think means “badass overclocking competition” in German. Some of Europe’s best overclockers were there, and Madshrimps has the story.
DFI’s Auto Boost System makes overclocking easy for novices and experts alike.
RivaTuner 2.11 is released. Go overclock your graphics card.
MadShrimps overclocks a Twintech 9600 GT with phase-change cooling.
The ECS GeForce 9800 GTX+ Hydra SLI kit consists of two graphics cards modded to attach to a re-purposed Thermaltake BigWater-series liquid cooling kit. Baller!
Here’s a guide for getting the easiest overclock out of a GeForce card.
Techware Labs has a short piece on the pros and cons of overclocking.
Hot on the heels of the release of its very successful 4000 series graphics cards, AMD has released three new Phenom processors into their lineup. The first is a new top model, the Phenom 9950 “Black Edition”. Operating at 2.6GHz, it is the fastest Phenom processor released to date. Interestingly, this is the processor everyone was looking forward to seeing at Phenom’s launch back in November, but was never released. Better late than never, I suppose.
ZD Net released a free overclocking tool called ZD Net Clock that allows Mac Pro owners to overclock the front side bus of their systems.
The aspect of this sure to get Steve’s turtleneck in a knot is ZD Net claims it allows buyers of the lowest end 2.8 GHz Mac Pro to get performance that romperstomps all over their highest clocked 3.2 GHz system; an option that costs $1,600 more.
Corsair needs no introduction to the enthusiast community. They’ve been making high-end modules since 1994 and are considered by many to be one of the best in the industry. Today I’ll be taking a close look at Corsair’s TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF kit, which is of the Dominator variety. Dominator is Corsair’s enthusiast line of memory products employing a unique cooling solution called “DHX” or “Dual Path Heat Exchange”.
We’ve been busy in the Icrontic labs, and there is no shortage of heatsinks coming in. You can expect several new reviews in the not too distant future. We coincidentally received two very similar heatsinks from two different companies—Sunbeam’s new “Core Contact Freezer” and OCZ’s “Vendetta 2”. Both are based on the popular “heatpipe direct touch” or “HDT” design. If you haven’t already guessed, the heatpipes do not contact a base, but contact the heat source directly. It has proved to be an effective technology and more and more heatsinks are beginning to emerge with this type of design.
MadShrimps discusses how to get an awesome overclock out of 45nm Intel processors.
