After 2 months of waiting Sandy Bridge is here

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: …

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i7-920 @ LN2 32M fun – someone called for pwnage?

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… …

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i7-920 – SingleStage 32M testing

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… …

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Kingston HyperX are on fire

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. …

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i7-950 + E760 + STT 2k = 32M fun

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. _Config: i7-950 #3936A695 EVGA 3-way SLI Classified – bios 77 STT 3×2 GB 2000 cas8 MGH-E-Hyper nVidia 6200LE 256 MB PCI-E WD scorpio 160 GB PC Power & Cooling 1200 watt _ …

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AOC + Coolbits + Mafio = 06 and vantage fun with HD4870 !!

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. …

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Meeting @ Castagnito (Asti, Italy) – 4/5 August 2010

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: …

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Back in real business – round 1

Nothing special here, no WR or something like that but today finally I had 10 litres of LN2 to try my i7 950. I’m happy because it’s been a long time since I had a good bench session at LN2, in the last six months I lost my time with p4 (8.1 GHZ then the RE died….), phenom 1090T with a crappy MSI 890FX and another bunch of rubbish… Now seems that the luck is coming back, this 950 works pretty well. …

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