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Projects/events
08-27-08
NVISION 2008 is over and what an event it was. Overclocking legend Peter Tan a.k.a Shamino flew in to the USA from Singapore courtesy of EVGA to bench as my team mate for some SICK 3dmark Vantage and 3dmark 2006 benching using EVGA 790isli ftw motherboards and EVGA GTX280 gpu's in both triple sli and dual SLI configurations. We managed to take down 4 world records at the event benching together. If I had not lost a great Quad core CPU preparing for the week long event a few days earlier, it might have been 5 Wr's. So much thanx goes out to both EVGA and Shamino for making everything such a success.
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06-15-08
NVIDIA GTX280 triple SLI + NVIDIA 790iSLI = 3Dmark Vantage ownage. Vantage has just been taken up to a whole other level with NVIDIA's release of the gtx280. These cards scream in triple SLI when used with a 790i chipset SLI capable motherboard. Combined with NVIDIA's physX technology, the scores get a nice boost. Especially some of the lower resolution presets like entry and performance. Here are my best 3D vantage scores in all 4 presets using physX drivers for the highest scores and also using standard vanatge install without NVIDIA physX.
Pics of Air rig (Click on pics for full images):
Full blown LN2 RIG using Dragon F1 extreme on QX9650/QX9770 and TEK-9 4.0 slim GPU units on the GTX280's in triple SLI:
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06-05-08
Computex 2008 Tapei Taiwan with Foxconn was a great success. Got to meet world class overclockers from Team Japan and Italy as well as do some 790i overclocking with GX2's in quad SLI for a 3DMARK VANTAGE WR. It was such a huge honor for me to bench alongside DUCK, NEWBEETLE, and FREDYAMA from team Japan. These guys are masters at what they do and have influenced and inspired me in everything I have done and still do in overclocking and container progression.
Duck was cool as hell..
3DMARK vantage co-pilot Giorgioprimio from Memory extreme team ITALY. Dimas gets an honorable mention as he did an admirable job of making sure we NEVER ran out of LN2 . Shamino was also there helping us out with his rig and keeping the LN2 flowing when we needed him. Thanx for everything pete, see you in Cali in August man :)
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04-20-08
Skulltrail clocked at 6GHZ on dual Dragon F1 EE's using Liquid nitrogen. That's 2x 3.2ghz QX9775 quad: (Click on image for larger view)
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11-22-07 Spent the weeked benching with EVGA at the Geforce Lan in San Francisico doing some live dry ice demos benching the new 780iSLi motherboard. Event
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10-26-07
The Plaisio superclock at the Athens Mall in Greece was an amazing event that I will not soon forget. It was quite a spectacle with lights, dancers, presentations, giveaways, and of course some extreme overclocking with two of my biggest in- fluences in 3d benching and overclocking in general...Peter Tan (shamino) of singapore and George Theologou (Hipro5) of Greece. Both of these guys are legends in overlcocking and it was a huge honor for me to meet them and share some ideas/methods. We had a very nice supporting cast consisting of other well knows memebers of the Greek and global OC communities.....Saaya and Fr3ak from Germany, Fredyama (Team Japan member)living in the U.K, and of course GoriLLakoS and Esdee from Athens. Also had the pleasure of meeting Troufmann from OC/TV, and all the guys from the lab.gr and out of specs.gr which are two very well known Greek OC teams. The greeks have a very strong overclock co- mmunity. We managed to put up some pretty nice team numbers involving every- one that was present. Real team effort and real nice results. Broke 29,000 in 2006 with an INTEL YORKFIELD QX9650 and dual 2900XT's in XFIRE without even pushing the cards hard. 30K++ scores will be popping up after these chips go retail no doubt. Thanx again to PLAISIO computers for the wonderful time!! Resuts and pics can be found over at Xtremesystems.org.
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Getting in some killer overclocking last couple weeks with INTEL's lastest quad core processor the QX6850 and a variety of different motherboards using both single card and SLI configuration on the NVIDIA 8800 ULTRA's. Focusing not so much on the gpu's in most of these benches, but on pushing the chip with all 4 cores enabled on liquid nitrogen using my new F1 unit. More pics of the unit are in cooling.
First result is the SLI score at 26,847 using ASUS STRIKER EXTREME 680iSLI, 2 gig CORSAIR Dominator 10000C5, 2x EVGA 8800 ULTRA, and SILVERSTONE 1200W psu. 5250mhz on the striker not too bad, will make a push for 5300mhz SLI on this mobo soon. Lost one of my cards during single card testing, so once that gets sorted out things will get rolling again. That card was an amazing one, and still holds the single card 2006, 2003, and 2001 world records in addition to SLI 2003 and 2006 top scores. Been benching with it since the first week of the launch of these cards....RIP
Now switching to the new P35 chipset with single 8800 ULTRA on air to really see what this new quad can do with 4 cores enabled. Setup is ASUS P5K3 Deluxe, CORSAIR CM3X1024-1800C7D, single ULTRA default clocked/cooled, and SILVERSTONE 1200W psu. Pushing for high fsb to start. On ASUS P5K-premium can do a little over 510fsb with a little bit of tuning. Here is a full 2006 run at 509x10...great cpu score for the mhz. Using CORSAIR dominator 10k's here.
Swap to DDR3 system with 1800C7D's to push the chip's MHZ hard on LN2 using the F1. Never would I have thought that I would see a quad running at nearly 5400mhz in 2006 with 4 cores, but this chip is getting awfully close :). 5346MHZ is my highest published run so far, but I think there is more there based on the temps and voltage needed for those speeds. F1 owns the QUAD so far in 06. That cpu speed and power pulls a whopping cpu score of over 8500 points!!
Been on a little vacation from overclocking this summer and getting back in touch with my other loves besides extreme overclocking. Spent the majority of the 2007 summer planning, building, and skating a 16ft wide 4.5ft high mini ramp. It has 16ft of seamless steel coping on each side and the perfect trannies / length of flat for a ramp this size. It's really fast, even with just plywood surface. When I get some extra cash, will put the final surface of skatelite on, and it should be even faster. Skatelite is HUGE $$$ to do a whole ramp this size, but well worth it. If you have ever skated on a ramp with skatelite, you know whats up and that it is worth every penny.
Unfortunately, I am painfully sitting here and typing this with a arm/wrist brace on as I slammed very hard early this week and re-broke my left wrist :(. I've bro- ken both wrists multiple times over many years skateboarding and snowboarding. Benching three LN2 units at once would be pretty difficult currently, so could be some time before I get back into some heavy overclocking again. Really needed the "break" anyways :). ______________________________________________________________
05-12-07
ASUS P5K-Deluxe sporting INTEL'S new p35 chipset along with an NVIDIA 8800 ULTRA make for some pretty solid AIR benching in 3d. The board is quite nice and can run high on all around clocks on both FSB and memory mhz. CORSAIR DOMINATOR 10000C5's are flyin over 600mhz 3d stable on the P5K so far. Here are some 3d air numbers from some of the first few tests with the P5K and Ultra...looking good. Silent knight copper heatpipe cpu cooler does great job, even with around 78-80f ambient temps, I could still run my X6800 at nearly 3800mhz for 3dmarks and the quad running a bit hotter then the conroe, but still making 06 runs close to 3.7ghz on the silent running cooler with the warm room temp was impressive. Ln2 clocking soon. Modding the shader clocks gives the card a nice boost in ALL 3dmark benches and reveals some of the new headroom on the ultra's shader clock. Once again the silent knight held it's own with silence :) and a little more cpu load.
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05-04-07
8800 Ultra's :)~ are on the sled atm and getting in testing when I can. Cards are showing some major potential so far with just limited testing on ex- treme cold. They scale nicely on both core and memory with LN2. On more gpu dependant benchamarks such as 3dmark 03 single and SLI as well as single 3dmark2006, the cards really shine. Prelim results are shaping up and giving the cards a little more cpu power with both Conroe and Kentsfield should give a nice boost. Cards clock up to 990/1260 at cascade temps fairly easy :). Test setup for Single 3dmark 01, 03, 05, and AM3, on extreme cooling:
INTEL CONROE X6800XE Dragon evo2.3 LN2 cooled ASUS P5W64-PRO | Corsair Dominator 8888 EVGA 8800 ULTRA Tek-9 LN2 cooled Silverstone 1000w
Test setup for Single 3dmark2006 and SLI 3dmark2006:
INTEL KENTSFIELD QX6700 Dragon evo2.3 LN2 cooled ASUS STRYKER EXTREME 680iSLI | CORSAIR Dominator 8888 Dual EVGA 8800 ULTRA Tek-9 LN2 cooled SILVERSTONE 1000w
Lots more potential there on both cpu and gpu side. Cpu bound benches will get nice boosts with more FSB/MHZ and higher memory speed. This setup will get some more abuse under extreme cold soon enough. ______________________________________________________________
02-07-07
Started playing around with some single 8800gtx 3D benchmarking with both conroe and kentsfield pushing the G80 in Mark 06, 05, 03, and 01. More to come with full speed on both cpu and gpu. ______________________________________________________________
11-08-06
G80 is here, and the initial benchmarking results are off the scale with so much performance untapped still. G80 + 680iSLI will make for an interesting winter no doubt about that. Very special thanx to NVIDIA for asking me to be part of the launch of such an awesome new GPU and platform. Since I am so incredibly lazy, here is the link to a thread with the new gear at where else but xtremesystems.org
Can't wait to see where the numbers end up..100k 01' , 90k 03', 33k 05', and over 24k 06' all seems possible. I left off at 23,733 currently in 3dmark 2006 using the EVGA 680iSLI motherboard + 8800gtX's in SLI , Kentsfield quadcore processor, CORSAIR Dominator 8888's, and SILVERSTONE Zeus 850w psu.
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09-07-06
Damn, look what never was... Guess this baby just became a collectors item after only a week and a 1/2 out of the box:
DFI's decision to focus on the upcoming c55 chipset and not c19 is reason for holding off on testing. C55 board will rock no doubt ;). Low FSB or not, c19 based motherboards is still the ticket to getting to the top of the HOF with gtx's officially atm. I've tested all the c19 variants and they perform very similarly.
My testing with c19 chipset has been going much better lately actually. WR's in 3dmark2006, 2003 , and top 5 26k 3dmark2005 at 5ghz is not too shabby where system power counts the most. 7900gtX's are not running at full power on any of these runs.
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6-11-06
Nice AM2 updates in 3dmark2003, 2005, and 2006. All runs done using FX62 still clocked under 3680mhz! ______________________________________________________________
6-01-06
AM2 / 590 SLI results with the CORSAIR 6400 C3 LL DIMMS with EPP technology are coming along nicely. Final runs with full cpu power should be quite impressive in 06', 03' and even 05'. NVIDIA 7900gtX's are screaming now on my Tek9 ln2 pots and I am getting my best clocks ever in SLI due to the FOXCONN CE51XE AM2 board and it's ability to scale the cards to their full potential in SLI. Here is where the AM2 scores sit currently in Futuremark's 3dmark2003, 2005, and 2006. I expect much bigger numbers once I get the FX62 up to full speed to match the power of the G71's clocked at 1050/1090mhz. These runs done using a cpu speed of only 3530-3640mhz. Clock for clock, AM2 is faster then nf4. The 2003 score is the current overall record due to the monster clocks in SLI that I am getting with the new 590 SLI chipset which now permits very high core clocks on the GPU's. High GPU clocks in SLI also helped to take 06 WR at over 100mhz less on the cpu. More to come.
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3-21-06
Currently in the middle of bench testing a pair of NVIDIA 7900gtX's, and so far the results are great. Broke 13k 3dmark 2006 with my FX60 and dual 7900 gtX's in SLI:
Cpu is running at 3679mhz on my ln2 dragonpot. gtX's are on my Tek9 ln2 G's. Also got some great scores going In 3dmark2003, 3dmark2005, and 3dmark2001. More to come soon with gpus and full speed and closer to 3700mhz on the FX.
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1-26-06 FX-60 testing has begun with my dual 7800gtX512's in SLI, and so far the results are great. Currently holding number 1 spot in both 3dmark2005 and 3dmark3006 with the FX clocking around 3560mhz and cards at 779/2160. I expect much bigger gpu clocks when I get my solid copper gpu containers finished.
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1-15-06 Worlds first 4ghz benchmark on an AMD FX57 processor is done! I benched superpi 1m stable at 4007mhz here using my solid copper dragon pot and ln2. It took alot of patience with the coldbug and around -105c on my container to do it. I also got some nice 8m and pifast runs in too. With more tweaking, that 1m could easily break into 20.** seconds range.
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01-09-06 3d Trifecta is mine for time being with scores of 18,810, 44,255, and 50,984 points in mark 05, 03, and 01 respectively. Plenty more in the chip still and I have yet to test the solid gpu containers, so I expect bigger numbers soon :). I am benching the fx57 at 3970mhz for 3d!
Pic of the rig:
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11-21-05
Pentium M 780 retail p4gd1 2x256 hyperx3200 bh5 Nvidia 7800gtX 512
The Pentium M returns as king of 3dmark2001 once again!. I managed 50,984 points here. The 7800gtX 512 is a true monster, as I was able to get it clocking in nature at speeds of 818/2100+!! The scores are great for only one vga card. Here is some single card gtx512 03' and 05' action with a 3697mhz Dothan 780.
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08-01-05
FX-57 Dfi nf4-slid dual xfx 7800gtX's 1 gig mushkin lv2 3500 bh-5
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07-02-05
Pentium M 780es Asus p4gd1 sing. xfx 7800gtX 2x256 Kingston hyperx 3200 bh5
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06-06-05
Pentium M 760 Asus p4c800-e x850xtpe 2x256 buffalo tech 3200 bh-5
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05-15-05
Pentium M 770 p4p800-e 2x256 buffalo tech 3200 bh5
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01-01-05
FX55 130nm msi neo2 2x256 Twinmos 3200 bh5 x800xtpe
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09-01-04
A64 3700+ shuttle an50r 1x256 mushkin lv2 3500 bh5 x800xtpe
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