DreamHack 2008 Winter overclocking by Team Finland

[Sampsa]

.. I'll continue here with our DreamHack 2008 Winter overclocking. This is the biggest LAN-party in world with over 12 000 visitors. Me and my editor Ville are overclocking here live at Telia's booth:

Day 1:

First day we tested two Core i7-965 CPUs and managed to run 3DMark Vantage @ 4,725 GHz. Broke P31k in 3DMark Vantage with stock cooled GeForce GTX 280 3-Way SLI.









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Day 2:

During the night we insulated two Tek 4.0 Slim VGA pots, modified and insulated three GeForce GTX 280 and mounted the pots. This pic is 1:30 am:



Thanks to hard work during the night, we were ready to go and had two nice sessions with LN2 cooling on CPU and VGAs:









We managed to break P34k but after this our Silverstone Olympus 1200W PSU gave up..

We will continue tomorrow, test some CPUs

[George_o/c]

Awesome guys, just awesome
So, you won't replace the PSU, and bench Vantage with LN2 again, for 34.5k+ ? ...

[BNDMOD]

Guys both of you are playing hard jejeje push it..

[Sampsa]

Awesome guys, just awesome
So, you won't replace the PSU, and bench Vantage with LN2 again, for 34.5k+ ? ...

PSU gave up = bad smell & noise. It is still working but I think mosfet blew or something.. tomorrow we will have new PSU or PSUs

[SoF]

haha gl with new psu's keep hunting crotale looks like another nice event

[T_M]

Great score Sampsa

[fubarswe]

Great event and nice scores.., bad for PSU.., wish You good luck tomorrow! :-)

[duck]

GPU875 M1270 S1900 4695MHz = 34K !?

[Solarfall]

very nice clocking sampsa and ville.. i hope you guys will not get more troubles with the setup..keep pushing it
btw just out of curiosity how much voltage are you feeding to those 280gtx cards ??

[Oliver]

awesome work and 4 sure u guys are pushing it max

[Viss]

Nice one Sampsa, 32.7 for now here, second CPU is better here so lets race

[dpa]

great score for those clocks Sampsa, 900++ core + 4.8GHz will do the trick!

[Trouffman]

great scores Love that way more and more live benching ^^

[Sampsa]

Day 3:



Today we managed to push Core i7-965 Extreme Edition (3836A923) successfully higher than yesterday:



4789 MHz in 3DMark Vantage's CPU-tests.



Then we started testing 3-Way SLI and first run with "low" clocks: 4748 MHz and 850/1900/1260 MHz gave us small improvement to yesterdays score: P34224.



Overclocking wise our location in DreamHack was not the best possible although it was a prime location for exhibitor (Telia). Overclocking stand located in main hall and right next to DreamHack main stage on right side.

Towards evening the humidity started to become a really big issue and place got very hot also because people started to gather in front of main stage.. and our location. Unfortunately we couldn't finish a run CPU @ 4789 MHz and VGAs @ 875/1900/1270 MHz which we tried couple of times before Vista lost two graphics card because of condensation.

We are very happy with our result in this live-event although there was no way in world to match Kinc & crotale.

Thanks to: Intel Sweden (Thomas), Asus Sweden, Telia and United Media Group for a great event

[Viss]

Congrats Max for us today was 33.763. It was a pleasure racing you guys

[Sampsa]

Congrats Max for us today was 33.763. It was a pleasure racing you guys

Also a good score and maybe some room to improve later, congrats

I'm thinking our system is capable to score 34,5 - 34,8k in near future with these parts

Now it is time for couple of beers

[k|ngp|n]

Great pics and good results man. I bet you are all vantage'd out and dont even want to look at the benchmark for awhile eh??

[Extera]

Great benching and nice score.

it indeed was a pleasure to race you guys

[crotale]

Nice work on the hardware Sampsa and Ville, and some nice away-from-hardware time as well

[George_o/c]

I'm thinking our system is capable to score 34,5 - 34,8k in near future with these parts

Now it is time for couple of beers

It's good to see you benching again, after the PSU issues you had I can see 34.5k+ coming

[elmor]

Really nice efficency there Sampsa! I see you got your cpu clock up a bit at the end also