Team Australia's public launch at Atomic Live

[Team.AU]

Team Australia (Team.AU) launch at Atomic Live 2007

20th October 2007, Atomic Live at Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney; Today some of the best talent of Australian overclocking come together to officially launch Team Australia (Team.AU).

An overclocking team prepared to launch onto the world stage and take the Australian scene to the next level, all the while maintaining interaction with their roots and the Australian overclocking scene. This is a team of dedicated individuals coming together to push the barriers of today’s enthusiast computing technology.

Who is Team.AU?

Members were selected from the finest of the Australian overclocking community who have proven to take it to the next level. These individuals push the boundary and have been brought together to redefine the local and international scenes. So who are the people pushing the limits in Team Australia?

Please welcome the members of Team.AU:

Dino Strkljevic - dinos22
Tim Marshall - T_M
James Turnbull - SLi_dog
Josh Collins - moloko
Kayl Hosken - Kayl
James Trevaskis - pro
George Liu - eva2000

Team.AU at Atomic Live

Choosing selectively where and when to have the official launch, it was obvious that the sexiest and most enthusiast based magazine, AtomicMPC, were the guys to host the team’s launch.

Gifted with the support of Australia’s premier enthusiast magazine, the team hosted a booth at Atomic’s annual exhibition, Atomic Live.

Photos and fun

[Team.AU]

Further images
























Results and benchmarks to follow as we wade our way through the hard drives and recorded results - sit tight.

[Team.AU]

The event was very full on and, as with any benching session, there was the ups and downs of hardware miraculously doing amazing results whilst other pieces of hardware only brought their B-game and choked for the big show.

One of the standout performers was Dinos22's cold lovin' Intel Core 2 Duo E6700.

System specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
GIGABYTE X38T-DQ6
Cellshock DDR3
Silverstone OP1000


Here it hits an impressive 5612MHz whilst benchmarking Super Pi 1M:



We had managed a 9.016s and kept pushing for sub 8s but unfortunately ran out of speed juice (LN2)

Next up is some Super Pi 32M at 5508MHz:



This chip is a nice one and topped out at an impressive 625MHz FSB on GIGABYTE X38T-DQ6:



Some pics mid run





More to come as we scavenge it from the drives and bring it all together

[metro.cl]

Congrats hope to see more of you in the future.

Dino and Eva are pretty good at OC

[k|ngp|n]

Wow!! Nice results! Looks like you guys had alot of fun....where are all the ladies????
Who is who in all the pics??

[Team.AU]

Oh, the ladies were there.

We had a hectic schedule and lots going on, but we were sure to pull aside the ladies from the NVIDIA booth adjacent to us for a hot photo op!



This is also as good a time as any to point out the who's who of Team.AU.

From left to right up front: pro, moloko, NVIDIA booth babe (Nikki - cool chick to chat to)
From left to right up back: SLi_dog, Kayl, T_M, NVIDIA booth babe (Monica? can't remember ), dinos22

moloko, the cheeky bugger, also nicked off for a photo with the Atomic Angels - mmmm booth babes



There were also WGT babes, Altech babes and a few others floating around in cosplay gear - the chick scout trooper was a hot looking star wars geek moloko got some pics with the Altech chicks but still needs to chase up the photos from the Altech events manager.

Also at Atomic Live was one of Australia's most popular smart dudes, Dr Karl. It was great to catch up with someone such as himself and we're looking forward to get in contact with his physics and engineering buddies at the University of Sydney

Take advantage of the opportunity, dinos22 jumped in for a photo:




k|ngp|n, are you going to be Santa Clara later this week? dinos22 and moloko will be flying out to the US later this week for a brief stop over there.

[dinos22]

thanks guys

lol for some reason no one uploaded my mugshot yet lol

there is a nice group shot of the whole team or some Nvidia bunnies but will wait for Josh to upload it all lol



[EDIT]lol Josh uploaded the other ones

From left to right >> pro, SLI_dog, moloko(front), kayl (back), T_M, dinos22




eva2000 is a little shy so we still don't know what he looks like ROFL

hey Vince yeah man thanks for the compliments. We ran into some problems (as you do when you do these shows) and realised we were out of LN2 as it was delivered the day before but dewar should have held it better >>> so i only had like 3 litres to do a quick 32M and quick few 1M runs to get something on the board

i started one 32M and it crashed but the temps dropped to -112C or so i thought that was the cause and got Josh to balance the temps between -123 to -125C for the second run at 5.5GHz and used no tweaks 'cept 600MB maxmem and just ran the run so it was very slow but hey that's all we could managed with so little LN2

second bunch was with 1M runs and we were trying a few runs to get that illusive sub 9s run but fell short and on the last squirt of LN2 grabbed whatever shot we could

One thing i think you'll appreciate is T_M's ultra card doing 945/1200 with 1.55v on core and -58C DICE load on '06 runs

i haven't seen these go that hard on dice before and we were very lucky to have this pot called F1 on the quad which allowed us to bench it on DICE at 4860MHz (QX6850) with full cores for some 20K single card runs

with LN2 this would be a 1K+on core and 5GHz+ 3D quad run easy

i am EXTREMELY happy with my Dragon Evo pot that we used for SuperPi runs on LN2 (how's that for a second ln2 run )

[Overclocka]

Awesome work guys if only I could have been at Atomic Live, dam HSC exams lol. Doesn't help living 3 hours or more away from Sydney either I guess.

Now I just need to start working hard to become a member of this uber team. Well one can always dream lol Anyways it's awesome to see Australia moving to the forefrount of the world overclocking scene.

[FUGGER]

Good stuff, thanks for the images. I can see the names on a few people but where is George?

This might answer where the hot chicks are.


Just kidding, looks like a star wars constume contest, I see chewy, boba fet, and darth nylus with the light saber.

[dinos22]

ROFL i was wondering WTF were all these star wars characters doing walking around our displays hahahahhqa


Charles, eva2000 wasn't attending.................we are having a hard to convincing him to leave that dungeon of his and step out into civilization j/k

i'd love to meet the guy who i look up to a lot and respect as a person and overclocker .

[Overclocka]

Yeah I would have loved to see Eva2000 as he's such an awesome overclocker. Anyways good to see the rest of you in these pics, although as I said it's a shame I couldn't be there.

You wouldn't all be interested in perhaps lets say taking me on as your new junior overclocking apprentice would you?

[dinos22]

lol junior apprentice lol

we'll start a new show in US based on that Donald Trump show

"You're fired!!!"

[oohms]

w000t!

Go team Australia!!!!

[antari]

Very nice work guys!

Excellent result on the E6700 and gotta love the chicks

[dinos22]

thanks fellas

[massman]

Great news, Team.AU will rock the OC scene, I'm sure

[BenchZowner]

For real now, where's mr Liu ?
Come on out George, you can run but you can't hide

Nice start Team Australia btw.
Dinos, lovely CPU man

I can see everyone did his part very well

[dinos22]

i think what was even more impressive is seeing that 3D setup really kick arse

T_M's Ultra was doing 945MHz core and 1200MHz memory with 1.55v on core ON DICE stable '06 runs

and Kingpin F1 pot was able to cool the QX6850 up to 4860Mhz quad stable for '06 on DICE

you don't see 20K single card runs on dice every day with that combo

[eva2000]

we're officially launched

I guess dinos was the one taking the photos ??

Wow, that Overclocking booth was huge.. what was it like 5 stalls side by side ??

Originally Posted by dinos22

eva2000 is a little shy so we still don't know what he looks like ROFL

hehe a half truth ... work and other commitments heh

Originally Posted by dinos22

Charles, eva2000 wasn't attending.................we are having a hard to convincing him to leave that dungeon of his and step out into civilization j/k

i'd love to meet the guy who i look up to a lot and respect as a person and overclocker .

Glued to the keyboard so prying me away will be hard LOL

Looks like you guys had alot of fun.. and man dinos that E6700 keeps getting better and better ! I think 650FSB is in reach sooner or later!

[SLi_dog]

Originally Posted by dinos22

i think what was even more impressive is seeing that 3D setup really kick arse

T_M's Ultra was doing 945MHz core and 1200MHz memory with 1.55v on core ON DICE stable '06 runs

and Kingpin F1 pot was able to cool the QX6850 up to 4860Mhz quad stable for '06 on DICE

you don't see 20K single card runs on dice every day with that combo

Yep all went incredibly well. The F1 pot worked phenominally, on dice no less , as did Kayl's GPU pot.

T_M and Pro really pulled out all stops with a single card 20k 3DMark06 on dice

Originally Posted by eva2000

I guess dinos was the one taking the photos ??

It was a mix of everyones pics from the day

[dinos22]

Originally Posted by eva2000

we're officially launched

I guess dinos was the one taking the photos ??

Wow, that Overclocking booth was huge.. what was it like 5 stalls side by side ??

hehe a half truth ... work and other commitments heh

Glued to the keyboard so prying me away will be hard LOL

Looks like you guys had alot of fun.. and man dinos that E6700 keeps getting better and better ! I think 650FSB is in reach sooner or later!

lol i can use that excuse too you know....running a retail business 6 days a week and having a couple of young ones at home



talk about things getting frosty






Saaya will like this shot (in my Pi rig)






actually here is the post from another forum as there is some interesting info.....gotta say we really beat the out of gigabyte boards at the event and they really did well....actually Kayl was hammering an Asus P5E3 DLX which did well shame about no vcore mods on that one but Gigabyte with one day's notice got their engineers to mod the boards to completely remove OVP and then flown in down to Sydney with some super express freight heheh these guys are giving us the most amazing support and i know that the fellas really appreciate that ...i certainly do

Originally Posted by TeamAU

The booth for the overclocking was massive to say the least and only really rivaled in size by the likes of Altech and ASUS. Here's a snippet of 1/4 of the booth:





Some of us also had the chance to kick it with Dr Karl and trade info and concepts behind the super cooling of computers as well as the obvious photo op.



The hardware used throughout the day did very well to hold up for such lengths of time on huge volts, high overclocks and freezing temperatures. Of particular note in this respect was the performance and stability of the GIGABYTE X38T-DQ6. After having average P965 boards and seeing an improvement in P35, the new X38 boards are starting to leap ahead. It also helps that GIGABYTE is actively communicating with the best overclockers throughout Australasia, Europe and north America.

When the X38-DQ6 and X38T-DQ6 first launched they were fairly average (like most X38 boards) but after a huge amount of BIOS updating and feedback from sub-zero 'clockers, the boards BIOS now features many features to assure we can all stretch it that much more - very impressed.

Here you can see that even whilst running sub 100 degrees Celsius in a humid air space, the board got some ice and even water but kept performing like a champ.



Here are perhaps the sexiest modules in the country, proudly owned by pro, they sit comfortably in the X38T-DQ6 where they did DDR3-1652 6-5-5-20 :smash:



Also neat were the controllers GIGABYTE sent through to make our life easier



Hopefully these will make their way into full retail samples as they're very handy

Now, it ain't all about the GIGABYTE, as ASUS jumped in also with the P5E3 Deluxe and oh my god - go Kayl you good thing. He was smashing out some crazy speeds and benching just shy of 4.8GHz on a QX6700 with an 8800GTS 320MB running under dry ice with 800MHz core with no volt mods! But more on that when we get the screenies together :p

[moloko]

Here's some more pics of the 3D systems that were running:

The 20k single card Ultra under Kayl GPU pot on dice and the QX6850 under F1 on dice





Kayl working his QX6700 on the cascade he built for Atomic magazine and his GTS 320MB eatting dice

[dinos22]

show us the video son

[massman]

igabyte with one day's notice got their engineers to mod the boards to completely remove OVP and then flown in down to Sydney with some super express freight

Amazing !!

[SLi_dog]

Originally Posted by moloko

Here's some more pics of the 3D systems that were running:

The 20k single card Ultra under Kayl GPU pot on dice and the QX6850 under F1 on dice

I'm still buzzing over those temps on the QX6850 (-69C) and 8800Ultra (-62C)

4.85Ghz and 940Mhz/1200Mhz respectively on dice.