I would like to write another kind of title, something like Benches and lots of fun, but when da biatch is involved you better forget the word fun. So, no fun, or at least not as much fun as when benching with 1366 stuff, but still worth to write a small article here. Same stuff as the previous writeup except for the CPU, yesterday I went to a local PC shop and bought a 2600K for a good price. Not a killer chip but also not that bad, I would say that I’m quite happy cause this one behaves well at -50° C and works bench stable at 5400 MHz. With this frequency I’m quite sure that a good ammount of n44bs are going to be pwned in the next weeks, the main objective is to do a good 3dmark 01 (with good I mean 123k +) using a single GTX280 and LN2 cooling. …

Like the title says after 2 months lost with dead board and RMA related stuff finally I’ve the pleasure to play with da biatch… Honestly, the only things that really impress me are the performances, this crap is scary fast in both of my favourite benchmarks: 3dMark 01 and Super-pi 32M. The bad thing is that quite everything except performance isn’t exactly like I would, just to name some problems: …

Today I and my friend Guglio had a 4 hours LN2 bench session with my good old i7-920. After alot of pretesting with the Single Stage we managed to get a great 3rd place in the 920’s ranking on the bot. We are really proud of it because not many days ago some guys said that I’m a fucking lamer, probably they didn’t look at HWbot or at the 32M low clock challenge on XS… …

While all the guys around there are working on the new Sandy Bitch stuff I’m still stucking with my old bloomfield setup. When something new come out I’m always a bit reluctant at the idea of buying without knowing everything about it, Sandy Bitch is freakin’ fast clock to clock but also have alot of downsides – just for example: no BCLKclocking, Elpida Hyper act weird with most CPU/mobo, 3dmark 01 gives strange results with everything except Gigabyte board and much more… – Back on topic – There’s not alot to say here, I did just a really quick run that end up with an interesting result. …

Not fancy stuff here, also not gay stuff or lo-vo crap…no way, I’m not going to do this, never. My way of life when talking about overclock is: get the crap out of everything you have in your hand and if it scale feed it with MOOOOAR volt. Even this time I’ve tried to do my best – and I think that something interesting came out. Like the title says here we are talking about the component that I love more: the RAM. Since DDR2 time I was in love with RAM, the time goes on but the memory addiction still persist. I still have a KIT of Crucial PC8500 batch 18F – if you know about DDR2 you know what I’m talking about – and 2 KITs of Cellshock PC8000 D9-GKX – damn crazy RAM, love ’em – and PC6400 D9-GMH. Ok, that’s enough, let’s make the pics talk… …

After 3 weeks of prestesting now it’s time to put my new E760 under LN2. The config is still pretty the same I’ve used in the past 3 month except for the RAM, this time I used a good 3×2 GB kit of SuperTalent. …

Yesterday I, Coolbits, The King and |ron met in Monza, we had 30 litres of LN2 and some stuff to test. Config: The main objectives were to do a super-pi 32M, 06 and vantage with our HD4870. The limit for 32M with 1.83 volt was around 5.7 GHZ, unfortunately we can’t feed the uncore with more than 1.45 volt because of stability issue with higher voltage…then low uncore frequency. No matter what CPU PLL voltage we use, CBB and CB were both around -125°, not a great CPU. …

Wednesday and thursday of the past week I and my 2 friends 7ornado (Simone) and The King (Marco) meet at Castagnito (Italy, near Asti, a place famous for wine and truffles). We had 100 litres of LN2 and a lot of hardware. 7ornado and the king used: i7-975 my A-Data 2133X MNH-E-Hyper HD4870 Sapphire 1 GB the good old Enermax Galaxy 1 KWatt ryba CPU and GPU pot I used: …