The Proving Grounds Extreme Overclocking Video

Category: Motherboards, CPU's
Posted: May 13, 2009 07:47PM
Author: Nemo

What do you get when your take one overclocking guru, an AMD Phenom II X4 955 processor and a pair of Gigabyte boards featuring the company's Ultra Durable 3 Technology? You get a chance to find out when overclocker Brian Mclachlan aka chew* pushes the sytems to the limit using air, dry ice and liquid nitrogen as the cooling medium. In the process, Brian was able to break 3DMark06 records for dual Radeon HD 4850’s and 4890’s in the Dual Crossfire configuration supported by these two motherboards. In the single videocard configuration Brian hit the #2 spot. To summarize the results:

#2 3DMark06 23,883
Single ATI Radeon HD 4890 Class

#1 3DMark06 28,831
Dual ATI Radeon HD 4850 Class

#1 3DMark06 Score 32,281
Dual ATI Radeon HD 4890 Class

Results on DDR3
DDR3 5-5-5-15-20 At 1443 MHz
DDR3 6-6-6-16-22 At 1636 MHz

Results on Air
4515 MHz All Core Validation
4070 MHz Extreme Stability | CPU 1.50V

Results on Dry Ice
5217 MHz All Core Validation
4717 MHz Extreme Stability | CPU 1.60V

Results on Liquid Nitrogen
6405 MHz All Core Validation
6283 MHz Benchmark PI 1M (6283) 11.078 | DDR3 9-9-9 1700
5751 MHz Extreme Stability | CPU 1.80V

But why look at a bunch of numbers when AMD has produced a video called The Proving Grounds where you can check this out.