TheKarmakazi

Hey guys!

Some quick benching this weekend. Pics of setup coming soon (still on camera and I'm at work). I dont know if dinos and pro have tried 3D benching on this board, but I wasnt impressed. My superpi runs are sucking because I did those last, and condensation/exhaustion were setting in and making things difficult. I started the session easily benching 3D at 5.3-5.4Ghz. Later in the night (12 hrs into benching) I couldnt even get 32M stable at 5 Ghz. Kept getting errors

Temps were easy to hold at about -69 to -71 degrees on my mousepot. vCore was at 1.68v to 1.76v. I was afraid to push it higher since I was unsure of how much voltage a 45nm chip could take on dry ice.
Im on the lookout for a Dewar so I can start some serious benching with LN2. Dry Ice isnt getting me where I want to be. Although I did accomplish one of my main goals which was 100k+ in our favorite game 3DM2001

The insulation method I used worked PERFECTLY! I recommend it to everyone. I had tons of condensation, but none of it went where it would do damage. You will be able to see more details when I post pics. I used conformal coating on the front&back of mobo. Frost King sticky insulation (2 layers) on the back of the mobo. And on the front I used kneadable artist erasers which worked fabulously. Im sure my 8500 would be dead if I used standard insulation, since I was mopping this thing with shop towels by the end of the night.

Supplies...
15 Kg Dry Ice
e8500 ES
Biostar Tpower P45
PNY XLR8 9800GX2 - unmodded on air
Corsair Dominator 8500C5D
Seagate 7200.7 40GB HDD

My aquamark scores seriously SUCK! Im not sure what Im doing wrong, but 276k was the best I could do (I have a 274k with 1Ghz less on the cpu - same gpu clocks). Someone HELP!

3DMark2001 - 103453
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=757125

3DMark2003 - 81169
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=757127

3DMark2005 - 33296
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=757128

SuperPi 1M - 8.484 (had to reinstall after a corrupted OS, didnt apply all tweaks and it shows... 46.7k PP)
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=757123

PiFast - 19.05
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=757124

Since Im still fairly new to the Subzero arena of overclocking, if anyone has any suggestions on how to improve, please let me know. Any constructive criticism is appreciated!

-Jamie

TheKarmakazi

I wasnt particularly happy with my pifast either.... it seems at those speeds I should do much betteR? like high 17.xx or so? Please someone let me in on the big secret lol

eva2000

Sweet congrats man 5.5ghz and more Good to know the eraser insulation works

Yeah 3dmark suxs on that board according to dinos especially with 9800GX2 heh.

TheKarmakazi

Cool maybe my AM3 problems were just related to the crappy 3D on this board. I may try it again with teh 9800GTX and see what it can do.

pcuser

Good start mate
I remember the first dice session with Hori , the commando was playing up and we spent hours just to figure out ram timings on his P5E3

TheKarmakazi

thx guys and for my 2nd dry ice session im pretty happy. I guess comparing myself to some of our other teammates with tons of subzero experience isnt being fair to myself

bob(nz)

pretty good 2nd time effort m8

keep up the good work

TheKarmakazi

Update with some pics

Setup before any coldness


Frosty Pic


Insulation pic