Since ATI launched its new Radeon X1900 series we've seen several articles and reviews with these cards, where in NordicHardware's own review we took it one step further by fitting ATI's monster with water cooling. A review you will be able to read very soon. Radeon X1900 XTX is truly a chip with a lot of heat coming out of the core and we noticed that some extra cooling really did the trick.
After working our way through the review of Radeon X1900 XTX we started to discuss what fun we could have with ATI's latest power package, simply the fastest video card available. The answer was quite obvious, make it even faster and see how far we could go using the most extreme methods we know of. To do this we don't only need extreme hardware but also someone, or some people, to do it for us.
Robert "Crotale" Kihlberg is the author of our Radeon X1900 XTX review and has just before this he had been crowned Swedish Overclocking Champion, through his amazing world record with an astonishing 203% overclock as Crotale pushed his Intel Celeron Mobile 1.4GHz to fantastic 4.242GHz. Robert has also recently done some successful extreme overclocking attempts with Intel's flagship Pentium 955 Extreme Edition and to create a real "dynamic duo" we paired Crotale up with multiple 3Dmark world record holder Marcus "Kinc" Hultin. Kinc recently took home the 3DMark05 category in the Swedish Performance Championship.
Crotale and Kinc has since then made a reputation here at NordicHardware and not just with their individual achievements, but but also together as their article about extreme cooling a video card. Kinc and Crotale have once again joined forces and used Intel's 955 Extreme Edition platform to see what results they would be able to achieve together with ATi's new flagship. The goal was setting a new world record, and a world record we got, or records to be more precise.
