After several boring air tests it was time to put this baby under extreme cooling conditions. So, last weekend, webmaster, Aragorn and I gathered at Webmaster’s secret lab to prepare a small session which lasted 11 hours.
First we needed LN2, only 5-6 ltrs in my 35LT dewar were not enough. We visited Linde for a refill and it was closed, meaning we had to do the best we could with 6 liters of LN2.
Then we had to vmod the motherboard (ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe) and the one and only available on line mod guide was this, which is most probably wrong unless we have another mobo revision.
Insulation was easy and after 4 hours of preparations we were ready to start “freezing”. But we had to check the vmod and verify if it’s working properly… Epic Fail!!!
Vcoremod point was wrong so for more than 5 hours we tried all possible points to find the proper one. And webmaster found it!!!
It was time to fill our pot with LN2…
We had already seen several screenshots of 6GHz+ cpuz, but we wanted to do it our way, small steps.
Those small steps and our 6ltrs took us to 5GHz+, but this is just the beginning. We will continue overclocking this fine cpu and when we it’s limits then we will start torturing it with all known benchmarks.
Stay tuned…
