Team Australia's public launch at Atomic Live

09:39 PM

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

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Further images

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

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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

22-10-2007, 06:12 PM #4 (**permalink**)

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 :rofl: 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 :up:

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

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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

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

06:47 PM

we're officially launched

I guess dinos was the one taking the photos ??

at last photo in first post.. Tim looks like Kayl has an eye on you

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

what's that Gigabyte controller do ? power, reset, clear cmos etc ???

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!

22-10-2007, 07:08 PM #7 (**permalink**)

George seriously dude we all want to meet you in person so start planning when you'd like to meet us.......better be very soon

yeah gear was crazy good and we got some very nice overclocks when it counted (event day

)

sunday bench was also INTERESTING ...... errrr

yeah

nah we all took photos with our cameras
obviously the macros were done on the G9.....josh kinda picked **** macros of course

...i was only happy with 1/10 shots of the little controller (you are correct about what it does) and same with mobo shots

josh with LN2 650MHz FSB easy without sounding pretentious

22-10-2007, 07:17 PM #8 (**permalink**)

oooooh Sunday benchies

Looks like that G9 is up to the task