The Banana Collector ( Starring: Bill and some sucky E8600s )

[BenchZowner]

Let me start by saying that this could've been a nice comedy ( movie ) easily.
Rated over 18 of course ( check the devilish AquaMark score ) due to lots of swearing, violence, and sucking ( LN2 sucking I mean )

I'm still laughing... don't know why and at what I should laugh at but... it's funny.
My collection of bad luck... just priceless, epic!

I tested two of my recently purchased E8600's ( Q822A4xx ) with Liquid Nitrogen.
I've tried these two on the P5Q3 Deluxe but I had some issues ( looks like a faulty board ), so I had to rely on/use my P5E64 WS Evolution X48 motherboard.
That didn't help much, as my max stable FSB on air was 620MHz and that was only SuperPi 1M and AquaMark 3 stable.
My fully stable FSB was 610MHz.
So be it, I decided to get the small LN2 dewar filled to play a bit with those two today.

Well... start laughing:

CPU #1 maxed out at 5580MHz at... 1.947V
Cold-boot at -96C, cold-bug at -112C.
Epic fail #1.

CPU #2 was kinda better.
Cold-boot at -102C, cold-bug at -124C.
Maxed out ( SuperPi 1M ) at... laugh... 5833MHz at 1.921V
Fully stable at 5700MHz at 1.914V.
For 5.4GHz AquaMark 3 I had to use 1.84V!

I only played with a single GTX 280 on stock cooling + stock volts, and tried to keep my card's clocks low to make sure she's not the one to blame

Some scores from today's session:








^ Don't laugh, not optimized OS & run ( not even LSC [ Large System Cache ] tweak )

102990 3D Mark2001SE - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9410594

68248 3D Mark03 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=5922399

33169 3D Mark05 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=4451406

Might upload some videos later on to show you my latest counter-measure for my bad-luck and to cheer me up during overclocking