Robert "Crotale" Kihlberg reaches 6GHz at DreamHack

Delph1 · Guest

Our very own overclocking guru Robert "Crotale" Kilhberg has as usual spent a lot of his time at DreamHack in NordicHardware's booth doing some extreme overclocking attempts. Last summer it was a Celeron 2.53 which was overclocked to 5.2GHz with dry ice. This year the goal was 6GHz with a Pentium 4 660 (3.6 GHz) and to reach this magical number we used a cascade compressor system, which you could take a peak at in our booth, when and where it lowered the temperature to about -100 degrees Celsius on the processor. Unfortunately not everything went as planned at DreamHack Winter 2005 and the motherboard Crotale had prepared for the overclocking tests gave up way too early.

Thanks to some quick assistance by ABIT, which lent us the board they had in their demo computer (ABIT AW8-Max) Robert could start again and after many attempts he finally managed to go past 6GHz. The final result was 6009MHz and after all the commotion it is a pretty nice result. If there was anyone who was even happier than Robert it might have been Peter Billing who had the best guess and could go home with a water cooling kit by Corsair.

Below you can see some nice pictures from the overclocking attempts.

Delph1 · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject:

The AW8 board Abit supplied was great up to 329MHz FSB, but it refused to go any higher. We thought about modding it, but since Abit uses it uGuru dealie we didn't know if we could trust the available mods for the ASUS board, I.e. if we could just assume the layout/solution was similar with the Abit board, but luckily it worked out just fine anyway Smile

//Andreas
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magicman · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:56 am Post subject:

I want to see more pics of the cascade Very Happy

Maybe even a brief article with some designs or schematics Wink

Delph1 · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:22 am Post subject:

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Forget everything, knowledge is your enemy, it's only going to make you second-guess yourself."

magicman · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

Delph1 · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject:

The compressors are pretty much the same you find in a Vapochill system.

Fun fact, the system is built with exact capillary tubes instead of a pressure vent Wink

//Andreas
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[NH]BigBen2k · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:40 am Post subject:

Yeah baby! That's the way to do it!

Congrats! Cool

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David_J · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:16 pm Post subject:

http://www.nordichardware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14553#14553