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: …

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.**** …

Few weeks ago I got an i7 950 from ebay. The first impression was good, it has a really strong IMCH and it’s damn hot…then probably it has low cold bug. Before put it under LN2, as I always do, I’m testing it with my single stage phase change (for more info look at Cooling section). The maximum core frequency that I can reach isn’t that good, but I think that with more cold it will give me tons of others MHZ. …

It was 10 April 2010, AOC (me, the king, 7ornado and |ron) is back in business. After long time we decide to test another time Alien, a Pentium 631 that 2 years ago got the frequency absolute world record. This time we used a Rampage Extreme, the mobo looked pretty solid but not as good as the good old ASUS Commando. BTW we got 8025 MHZ, the precedent WR made with this CPU was 8180 MHZ. In the next months probably we will retry it maybe with a Commando and maybe we will get back in Italy the frequency WR. …

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