All that overclocking and no benchies? What a waste...
Yea yea I know its a "technical" achievement bla bla bla. But if you can't do anything with it, its useless.It comes as though you drop in a sr20 and leave the driveshaft disconnected. Sure you've got power, but the car goeseth nowhere.
Should have better categories for ocing stuff yes. Say like highest usable/unusable frequencies achieved with passive/air/liquid/phase change/LN2 cooling.
Everclear, liquid nitrogen and Phenoms make a partyAMD overclocks with boozeBy Charlie DemerjianThursday, 21 May 2009, 20:40WHAT DO YOU get if you mix 190 proof booze, liquid nitrogen, and overclockers? World records and a lot of smoke.Booze and Crossfire bridges - how to partyAMD is going for a bunch of overclocking records today, and they designed some interesting hardware to get them there. Of the bunch, by far the coolest was the clear acrylic tubes filled with alcohol and liquid nitrogen. Why use a standard copper cylinder when you can make one that boils and smokes, and you can mix drinks in it when you are done.Normally, overclockers use a copper or aluminum-copper cylinder instead of a heatsink on the CPU, and fill it with liquid nitrogen (LN2). The LN2 boils off cooling the CPU to sub-zero temps, and that allows it to run faster. Now, the nutballs are all going to liquid helium, and that requires different types of pots.One of the side projects to come out of the helium transition was the clear acrylic pot, and it looks great. If you take an acrylic tube, mount it to a copper heat plate, and put that on the CPU, you get a nice tube that almost instantly turns to ice when you pour LN2 or helium in. To prevent this, you put a second tube around that, and fill it with ethanol as a thermal buffer. It looks like this.Hot potsThe fun begins when you pour LN2 into the middle tube, it starts violently boiling off, and cooling the CPU. The easiest and most common way to get near pure ethanol is go down to the local liquor shop in a bad neighborhood, and buy a bottle of Everclear. Pour it between the tubes, and it prevents the outer tube from icing over. Somewhat. Under full boil, it looks neat.Booze and boilingAs of this writing, Chew, the overclocker running the rig, had the CPUs down to -146C, and the record runs were just starting up. Once the Helium rigs gets down to their running temperature, records are going to be falling, that is for sure.In the end, what more do you want? 6+ GHz Phenom II 955 CPUs, overclocking records, liquid nitrogen, high end graphics cards, and 190 proof booze. That is how geeks really party.
Here's a video summarising theday the records fell.
