The Abomination

[zalbard]

Looks like you guys had a lot of fun, pity I couldn't come to see it live.
Thanks for your pics!

[SF3D]

I got some info from Macci!

He and Kingpin did some 06 runs at 6600MHz on cores and 4840MHz on NB. They scored 38327 at that point

I am sure they will push the setup even more. Score is not that good, so there might be some issues. I am just speculating, cause my info is very limited.

They also did 7088MHz on the video, but they did not manage to get validation at that point.

Push it guys! 7.1GHz and 39K is the target

[Lightman]

Thanks SF3D for fresh info!

These clocks rocks!

[Slappa]

Thanks for the update SF3D!

Sounds great!

[Sampsa]

Nice score and crazy NB speed, but sounds like there have been some efficiency issues. What happened to live feed in this thread

[Zeus]

Any pictures, video's or updates?

[dinos22]

6.6GHz 06
nice

[64NOMIS]

8/14/09

The Abomination was our Phenom II 965 BE Stock rig and we were focused on making it work, frequency, and audience participation :-) The Abomination was born at about 2PM and we were able to immediately begin to push the system and made a number of runs trying to push 3DMark06 past 6GHz, ultimatly best run was at 5.94 GHz with a run on the CPU test in the 7K's. Instead of benching 3D, we then scaled back to 5.6 and played the new Wolfenstein and a couple other games with the audience daisy chaining their games for a couple hours. The system was a champ with only one unexpected reset and we powered down at the close of the vendor area at 7PM. I've been working on the Abomination rig for a few months, just working out the details. The star is Aaron's pot, but I am still proud for small touches and the rare, if ever seen exhibition of LN2 with mineral oil. It was a sweet looking rig and it was great to have Nemesis show up and spontaneously man the guns. The 965 showed well and I wished we could have spent more time running benchmarks, but it fulfilled its mission and entertained hundreds at Quakecon.

Sami and Vince worked for hours trying to get a good motherboard and CPU combination and ran through 5 boards and several chips before we closed down at 7PM. 8 massive gas (3x Helium Gas for backpressure; 2xLN2, 3xLHe) cylinders had to be stored outside on the docks so every night, contributing significantly to the overall level of daily exhaustion...

8/15/09

We started setup at 9AM; Vince & Sami had the Gigabyte board on a stock 965 primed and ready. We had to move to the main stage and took both the Abomination and the standard rig. The Abomination died in the move, and any thoughts of serious 3D benching on LN2 or doing an LHe run on that setup were dashed. But the Gigabyte rig was great for the mainstage show where Sami & Vince demonstrated AMD Overdrive and 965 performance under LN2 LIVE on the Venom pot from K|ngp|n Cooling.

We moved the rigs back to the main hall and began to prep for LHe. At that point Vince & Sami felt the Gigabyte board was being to finicky on Lhe and we decided to grab lunch and go to Fry's where we picked up two more of the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe boards. Sami & Vince began running LHe at 5PM and blew through 250L in about 3 hours on a single, rock solid rig - made it look easy in the 11th hour of Quakecon...very nice audience photos here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=1517103

[Gautam]

I see 9000 CPU score, quite shocking, nicely done guys

[k|ngp|n]

Nice score and crazy NB speed, but sounds like there have been some efficiency issues. What happened to live feed in this thread

Not really, me and sami didn't put much thought about the other parameters in the system. We got carried away with pushing the hell out of the CPU and NB frequencies in 06' We didnt use the helium until the very last part of the show after a bunch of days on a hot dock, so I think at least 1/3 of it was lost before we even used it.
It was really about putting on a good live demo, and we finished with such a bang at the last hour in front of quakecon crowd. It was a riot. The 48070x2's were only at 800/920 LOL. First run was over 38k with default card clocks and we only got about 3 more full good runs
BTW I love finnish Metal

[macci]

6.6GHz 06
nice

Oh yes, and we managed to pass the CPU tests at this speed (all cores):

(click for full screenie - low score / bad run though)

3DMark06 score at 6600 / 4840 + 2x4870 @ 800/930:

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we passed 06 at 6.6GHz close to 10 times during this session (some runs at default GFX clocks). the setup was solid as a rock on LHe. the OS could use some tweaking though...

picked up a pair of M4A79T boards during lunch break and Vince prepared them both with coating. Vince set up the primary rig with Aaron's LHe "Muy Frio" cooler, I prepared the backup rig w/ Vince's new Phenom II pot. Since the main rig turned out to be a perfect setup we'll have to save and use the backup rig at some later date

highest CPUZ capture (with good old mspaint -method!):


we had 7025MHz on the screen for a few seconds but didn't quite manage to capture it for screenshot / validation.
we also saw 7088MHz briefly - need to dig it up from the video camera

the LHe Grande Finale was one of the coolest if not the coolest OC session I've ever been a part of. Great Teamwork, Great audience, Great results and we even managed to get some proper music on at the end of the session

[dinos22]

oh wow
you guys did great
i love the fact you kept pushing it until the right combo appeared

it's very easy losing faith when you are on your 6th or 7th setup all tired and tryin to get something going hehehe


great work and 9K CPU score on AMD is bloody great

[dinos22]

lol i like this photo
look at simon(assuming its you?!?) and vince

[macci]

found it!

[dinos22]

[Charles Wirth]

Grats on the 7k screen, the process has come a long way. Good that hear it all came together nicely.

Nemesis looks asleep at the wheel in that pic dinos.

[dinos22]

yeah he's doing the "look mum no (eyes)hands" trick

[64NOMIS]

Grats on the 7k screen, the process has come a long way. Good that hear it all came together nicely.

Nemesis looks asleep at the wheel in that pic dinos.

Was it the flash, or was it the Everclear?

Really, hats off to Nemesis. We needed another hand on deck and there he was. Thanks for the Everclear, thanks for keeping the Abomination alive, and thanks for tracking down that blessed ASUS M4A79T Deluxe that put its cousins to shame with an amazing three hours continuous on LHe. Golden Board.

[The Nemesis]

Was it the flash, or was it the Everclear?

Really, hats off to Nemesis. We needed another hand on deck and there he was. Thanks for the Everclear, thanks for keeping the Abomination alive, and thanks for tracking down that blessed ASUS M4A79T Deluxe that put its cousins to shame with an amazing three hours continuous on LHe. Golden Board.

It was awesome meeting everyone! Great experience! Most of the Abomination still lives and it has really inspired some ideas.

That was the first time I've clocked an AMD rig since August '06 and it was really simple. The Phenom II X4 965BE is a great cpu and looks to be an easy 5.5GHz 1.6v on dice/ln2.

[macci]

a few selected Quakecon '09 moments:


(who's hiding behind the smoke??)


(single PSU rig)


(temp during a 3D06 run)


("towel + tshirt + heatgun" -trick kept it alive for hours!)


(going for 7G!)


(click for larger picture)

Team: k|ngp|n, macci, The Nemesis, Aaron Schradin & 64NOMIS

[The Nemesis]

My favorite PIC

[SF3D]

Great work Sami and Vince!

7088MHz would have been nice validated speed

[Zeus]

Awesome! With a little more tweaking it would have beaten the current WR! You guys tried to be kind to Andre not to beat it perhaps?

How come all CPU-Z screens show 955BE instead of 965BE? Is it due to an old version of CPU-Z?

[Sampsa]

Not really, me and sami didn't put much thought about the other parameters in the system. We got carried away with pushing the hell out of the CPU and NB frequencies in 06'

It was really about putting on a good live demo, and we finished with such a bang at the last hour in front of quakecon crowd. It was a riot. The 48070x2's were only at 800/920 LOL.

Yeah, numbers are impressive and as we all know it's already a big success to get such a good results in the middle of a big event like QuakeCon

Good job everyone.

PS. Who left Vista's AERO enabled! (ok, I can also see macci's antivir tweak there )

[FlanK3r]

nice job guys , next with x4 975 ,-) . Quakecon was good, i watch a bit tournament too, but my like favorites FoX and Cypher won not ....