DreamHack Summer 2006 has come to and end and most of us from NordicHardware has just arrived at home or are on the verge of it at least. Some of the people who kept going to the very last minute at DH in NordicHardware's booth was Kinc and Crotale which seemed impossible to separate from their bench system, which actually didn't receive its final ingredients until Monday evening, an Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 and a cooler ambience after moving into Elmia's C hall. The last hours were used solely to pressure the system to the outmost limits and already during Monday we could report that they'd reached 4.8GHz with SuperPi 1M by using a compressor cascade cooler with about -100°C on the processor. This speed was enough to achieve the second best SuperPi 1M time in the world at 10.735 seconds, a very impressive achievement.

NordicHardware's OC gurus together with Intel's Thomas Melzer

They didn't settle for just running SuperPi during the first tests using the cascade but also did some 3Dmark benchmarking, which had already seen some new world records with a Core 2 Duo E6600 at 4.0GHz. It turned out that Core 2 Extreme X6800 had no problems with running 3Dmark at incredible 4.73GHz with cascade cooling which after just two runs shattered Kyosen's world record with 3Dmark05, which he reclaimed just hours after Kinc and crotale set a new one on Saturday. The old world record with 3Dmark05 by Kinc and crotale was 23954 points, which Kyosen later improved to a whopping 24881 points with the help of an E6700 clocked at 4.5GHz. Kinc and Crotale reached quite incredible 26 278 points (!!) during Monday night at the following speeds.

3DMark05 - 26 278 points
Core 2 Extreme X6800 @ 4730MHz (11x430MHz)
ATI Radeon X1900 Crossfire 843MHz/927MHz
ASUS P5W HD Deluxe (i975X)
Corsair XMS2-PC5400UL 430MHz 4-3-2-5 1:1
OCZ 520W + OCZ 600W
Processor cooling: Natrium cascade
Graphics card cooling: Overklokk cascade and LN2

Core 2 Extreme X6800 @ 4.73GHz

A complete slaughter of the 3DMark05 world record which has been improved several times the last couple of days. Worth mentioning is that they managed to reach 100.0 fps with Game Test 1, something that may not say much to most mortals but it is simply a proof of the incredible performance the system has to offer.
They later tested both 3Dmark2001 and 3Dmark06, even though they were extremely close to reaching new milestones with 3Dmark2001 they had to terminate the benchmarking as the condensation became too much and crashed the system. After some pondering they decided to disassemble the whole system and go with liquid nitrogen instead to see how far the X6800 would go.