Quote Originally Posted by spursindonesia View Post
Hehe, you should come down under here mate, there's plenty of sunshine here, 30 c ambient, but quite damp & humid nowadays with moonsoon season coming.

So far, GTX 470 seems still the card to go if you're into OCing, but HD 6870 seems to have more OC potential than what was previously suggested.
Warm weather is far nicer in the long run, but cold whether(not extreme) is good for great for cold air overclocking. I hate humidity, it makes me itch. Cold in small bursts, just makes you feel alive. When it is reasonably cold in Saskatchewan(-15C), one thing that I have done is open the window and close the room and let the water cool down(water cooling) long enough where its pretty close to zero and the computer room itself is about a few degree's.

I will slip on some warm clothes and begin to overclock before everything gets heated up again and they stop Overclocking as well(which is usally 20-30 minutes later).

I can't work any colder because when it is -35C or colder, usually a cold streak is going on and the windows are frozen shut(plus I would have to use a new coolant anyways as water would freeze). Additionally, the winter air is blasting so fast that it might blow off the winter. Its ridiculous because we typically have a few days where we have +40C days.

Some of the colder area's of Saskatchewan can hit -50c. It would be interesting to work with a coolant that could handle that type of coldness because even antifreeze will freeze at this temperature. Whats even more ridiculous is that with the proper windgust and windchill, to bare skin, we sometimes have days when it can feel like -90C, which is colder than even the best single stage cooler.