SF3D OC Gathering Vol. 1 -Powered by AMD

[Sampsa]

First of all, what a great event it was. Everything was very well organized and prepared by SF3D and macci. We did not only focus on overclocking but had lots of fun, did some drinking, sauna, swimming, eating, night club, etc

I think we will see pictures and results from everyone who attended the event so I'll just post the pics of liquid helium tests with Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition ES, Gigabyte 790FX-UD5P and ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 CrossFire X me & elmor did on Sunday evening. Since SF3D & macci were mainly focusing on liquid helium, me and elmor established a Finnish/Swedish team and started benching together on Sunday. Everything worked out really well and first we tested normal TWKR CPU with LN2 and just two hours before we had to leave the place, we got opportunity to bench our well prepared system with liquid helium.

Since we only had very short time with LHe we started benching 3DMark05 straight away at 6,497 GHz and scored 49187 points. Next we raised the CPU to 6603 MHz and scored 49568 points. The best one was at 6678 MHz and score was 50017 points. We tried pushing 05 many more times but after scores like 49999 we just ran out of time

Then we did 3DMark06 and since we were in a hurry we started @ 6541 MHz which already gave us 38139 points. We could run CPU-tests successfully @ 6541 MHz but 6614 MHz crashed at the end of CPU-test 2. Unfortunately full run @ 6541 MHz crashed in CPU-tests. Here are the pics of system etc:



400 liters of liquid helium



macci & SF3D preparing the helium





Macci adjusting liquid helium flow



Tank's safety valve "overclocked"



Happy LHe-overclockers elmor & Sampsa



Kingpin F1 EE pot's temperature showed below -250 in idle and between -230 and -240 under 3D load. These might not be very accurate numbers, but we did pretty good work preparing F1 EE for LHe and results speak for themselves









System after

Thanks to everyone who participated and especially AMD powering the event. It was nice to see some old and new friends and everyone did some really nice scores