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Hi members and visitors of Tom's Hardware forum.
Almost all people know what means overclock, in other cases some of them know how to do it and in another situations they try and do overclock.
In the following spoiler you can know a little about my history in Overclock and how I met this world.
But, what other useful thing I have got from this practice? This gave me the option to travel to Taiwan last year (2013 for MOA Finals), meet different cultures and people around the world that share they knowledge about Overclock and more away from this practice, they form a community that are friends and not enemies, and more important, this gave me the possibility of present my degree project as Electronic and Telecommunications Engineer based on this practice.
This project pretends use the advantages of sub-zero cooling in CPUs and GPUs, building a phase change cooler that can keep the temps of those components at -40°C or -50°C while the system runs process like Folding@Home at a much higher frequency than the stock one but without the temperature limitation of the CPU and transistors.
For this project I have to extend my gratitude to ASUSTeK Computer Inc., ASUS Taiwan and Adeline Larrouy for sponsor this project providing a motherboard ASUS Maximus VII Ranger and for graphic card an ASUS GTX 760 Striker Platinum. Thanks, many thanks to them for sponsor this project.
After the official presentation of this project that is scheduled for November 19th, I would proceed to do extreme overclock with liquid nitrogen in both, CPU and GPU components. I extend my invitation to keep visiting this thread for see the results that I can get; the idea is to get the 1st place in hardware. We would see if that is possible.
PD: English isn't my native language so, please any mistake in writing or grammar just let me know and I would try to fix it.
Almost all people know what means overclock, in other cases some of them know how to do it and in another situations they try and do overclock.
In the following spoiler you can know a little about my history in Overclock and how I met this world.
I started to do overclock just few years back, around 2009-2010 with the components that I could buy at that time with my student and middle time job budget. That means a GTX 260 with an AMD X6 1090T that I still have and use in my daily machine. In a LAN event called "Campus Party" around 2011 and thanks to the support of OC-Nation team and e-Killer I had the opportunity to use liquid nitrogen with a 990FX motherboard and my precious 1090T. After a few hours, I saw how my CPU passed from run at 3.2GHz to 6.5GHz with all cores actives and programs like SuperPI and wPrime was running without problems. Amazing!!!
I could say that in that moment, in that event my interest for the Overclock passed to be in the 1st place of hobbies even better that video games. But then I started to realize that any AMD CPU with any GPU isn't a good combination and even more, that I would need to use high end GPUs for compete against others overclockers. With a little of effort (and mom's help) I moved on to the blakc side of the force (Ok, it's not black, is blue) and bought an Intel Core i5-2500k with an ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z Gen3, Corsair Dominator DDR3 RAM and finally a good Corsair PSU too. After to assembly all those components I did some test and was much more exciting when the result was much better that with my AMD CPU as well as the scores in 3D test with GPUs was very good.
After a few months I sold my GTX 660 Ti and bought a GTX 680, high end GPU for keep my hobby, but the GTX 660 Ti wasn't the only one that I sold since the Gene-z Gen3 and i5-2500k was bought for a friend of mine. Then, I bought an i7-3770k with a Maximus V Gene. In 2012, in the "Campus Party" event I burn the CPU in the silliest way that I can imagine: I did a very bad installation of the pot (liquid nitrogen container). After the RMA I continued using the same components until I had to sell all of those except the GPU.
Even without components I continued in the Overclocking world, enter as a free-lance in the Overclocking-TV page that covers almost all the OC events at worldwide. I have participated in some OC contest in HWBOT that is the house of all Overclockers and have the support of ASUS, MSI, Intel and G.Skill among others. My results aren't the best since my experience isn't big and the quality and "luck" with the components are a fundamental factor. With the participation in those competitions, I have won the satisfaction of try my skills, I have learned many things and I have met a lot of people that share with me they knowledge about overclock.
I could say that in that moment, in that event my interest for the Overclock passed to be in the 1st place of hobbies even better that video games. But then I started to realize that any AMD CPU with any GPU isn't a good combination and even more, that I would need to use high end GPUs for compete against others overclockers. With a little of effort (and mom's help) I moved on to the blakc side of the force (Ok, it's not black, is blue) and bought an Intel Core i5-2500k with an ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z Gen3, Corsair Dominator DDR3 RAM and finally a good Corsair PSU too. After to assembly all those components I did some test and was much more exciting when the result was much better that with my AMD CPU as well as the scores in 3D test with GPUs was very good.
After a few months I sold my GTX 660 Ti and bought a GTX 680, high end GPU for keep my hobby, but the GTX 660 Ti wasn't the only one that I sold since the Gene-z Gen3 and i5-2500k was bought for a friend of mine. Then, I bought an i7-3770k with a Maximus V Gene. In 2012, in the "Campus Party" event I burn the CPU in the silliest way that I can imagine: I did a very bad installation of the pot (liquid nitrogen container). After the RMA I continued using the same components until I had to sell all of those except the GPU.
Even without components I continued in the Overclocking world, enter as a free-lance in the Overclocking-TV page that covers almost all the OC events at worldwide. I have participated in some OC contest in HWBOT that is the house of all Overclockers and have the support of ASUS, MSI, Intel and G.Skill among others. My results aren't the best since my experience isn't big and the quality and "luck" with the components are a fundamental factor. With the participation in those competitions, I have won the satisfaction of try my skills, I have learned many things and I have met a lot of people that share with me they knowledge about overclock.
But, what other useful thing I have got from this practice? This gave me the option to travel to Taiwan last year (2013 for MOA Finals), meet different cultures and people around the world that share they knowledge about Overclock and more away from this practice, they form a community that are friends and not enemies, and more important, this gave me the possibility of present my degree project as Electronic and Telecommunications Engineer based on this practice.
This project pretends use the advantages of sub-zero cooling in CPUs and GPUs, building a phase change cooler that can keep the temps of those components at -40°C or -50°C while the system runs process like Folding@Home at a much higher frequency than the stock one but without the temperature limitation of the CPU and transistors.
For this project I have to extend my gratitude to ASUSTeK Computer Inc., ASUS Taiwan and Adeline Larrouy for sponsor this project providing a motherboard ASUS Maximus VII Ranger and for graphic card an ASUS GTX 760 Striker Platinum. Thanks, many thanks to them for sponsor this project.
After the official presentation of this project that is scheduled for November 19th, I would proceed to do extreme overclock with liquid nitrogen in both, CPU and GPU components. I extend my invitation to keep visiting this thread for see the results that I can get; the idea is to get the 1st place in hardware. We would see if that is possible.
PD: English isn't my native language so, please any mistake in writing or grammar just let me know and I would try to fix it.
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