New bios (S21Z) in the eVGA Classified 760 got me booting from bios at 230+ bclock. This W3540 is a very strong chip, loving the cold. The board would cbb at around -90° to -92°, but the chip wasn’t cold bugging even at -130°! With the Kingpin F1EE cpu pot I was able to maintain steady temps even under extremely heavy loads like wPrime 1024. So 3D benching wasnt a problem since the most cpu demanding bench I was running was 3dmark 2006. On to the results!

One unfortunate happening during this session was when I was benching 2D first. I killed 2 out of 3 of my Kingston Elpida Hyper sticks during 32M runs. All these benches were thus done in single channel mode which hurt things some (especially in aquamark3)

3DMark 2001 Gold (now silver)

3DMark2005 Silver (now 7th)

3DMark2006 Gold (now silver)

Aquamark3 Gold (now 6th) – Could had about 390k if I had triple channel working.

I currently have no 5870′s (this one was for a customers gaming computer) but will revisit this again for sure.  I got some new non-explosive hypers in from Kingston.   Now with CCC limits of 1200+ on core, adjustable voltages from software, people are pushing these cards to 1050ish core on air, 1125ish on water, and 1200-1300 on LN2.  Quite impressive!

I would first like to thank RomDominance for the opportunity to blog here with this great bunch of guys.  Many of you may have seen me around at xtremesystems, overclockaholics, i4memory or other various forums around the net.   For those of you whom havent met me yet, let me give you a short introduction.

My name is Jamie and I’m 27 years old.  I live and work in the Buffalo NY area, running a local computer repair business and an online ebay store.  I’ve been into computers from the time I could walk as a little kid.  In fact I could type my name on a computer before I could write it!  My father was a computer programmer and got me into hardware and games at a very young age.  Been an addict ever since!  I also run a small Overclocking team that is part of the PURE overclocking team.  Its called the Uberclocker OC Team and we have a small blog where I also post at.  Members include myself, Slovnaft, Chispy and Pauld5999.

My first gaming PC was an Apple IIe (no hard disk, just two floppy’s) and Ive owned many since…  From a 286 16Mhz playing Wing Commander to my current i7/classified rigs waiting for some DX11 action.

I first got into overclocking during the end of the AMD reign.  I wasnt concerned with benchmarking, it was mainly just to squeeze some extra performance out of lower end cpus to save some cash.  Then in late 2007 I got bitten with the benchmarking bug which led to heavy hardware purchases and extreme cooling.  Funny how this hobby usually starts out as a way to save some cash, but results in an expensive addiction that rivals heroin

In 2008 I skipped from air cooling right to LN2.  Never messed with water or phase, and only used dry ice a few times.  Picked up a 50L dewar and cpu, nb and 2x gpu pots from Duniek.  Earlier this year I purchased an F1EE cpu pot from Kingpin.  Been cold clockin ever since

Ive recently been on a quest to max out my hwbot hwboints, and in doing so have broken back into the top 100.  Currently ranked 75th I hope to hit 600 points by the end of 2009.

I will be posting the results of my OC adventures, and some hardware reviews too.  Looking forward to working with everyone here, to make pcwormhole a top destination for OC related news and reviews!