OCing in Winter (20 degree Fahrenheit)

[John2583]

Specs

MSI K8N Neo4/SLI

Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.0 GHz stock)

2x1Gb Corsair XMS DDR 400

NVIDIA eVGA 7800 GT



highest boot was 2580 MHz

wasn't stable much past 2500 MHz, I didn't have much time to really mess with it cause I spent 2 hours in the 22 degree fahrenheit weather and I was losing feeling in my toes and fingers lol. I ran sandra and seti on it at 2500 MHz for a while and it seemed fine. The coolest part though is the temps on the CPU and mainboard, so low they are funny. Mobo temp at 4 C is nice, and a 12 C CPU.. I like that. lol

I wish I could have gotten it higher, but my vcore doesnt go much higher than 1.5.. I was hoping for at least 2.6 stable.. oh well. I had the memory down to 166 and turned up the voltage on memory and the nforce chipset.


thermometor showing ~20 degrees F
the setup
me showing condensation in breath
highest boot at 2.58 GHz
stable at 2.5.. kind of, didn't test long
condensation forms AFTER bringing it back inside
condensation, no I didn't turn it on immediately

 

[avi85]

You would have reached about the same results indoors, but if you could have raised your vCore to like 1.8-2.0 then we would have seen some really cool stuff...

 

[John2583]

ya I quickly realized that my vcore limit was holding me back.. kind of dissapointing. I guess a DFI board might be better for OCing like I was trying to do.

 

[myocardia]

That's okay, last January, there was a guy on xtremesystems.org who was running his Netburst P4 @ over 5 Ghz, using only good air cooling, with his computer inside the house. He went for quite a few pages, with nobody believing him (that he was only using air cooling), until he provided pictures.

He lived in northern Norway, IIRC, and had his PC sitting in his bedroom window (with the left side of the case open), with the window open, and a 20" box fan outside, that was blowing directly into his case. He said it was -18° or -20° (C) that day.

 

[Ayah]

That's awesome!

 

[John2583]

Originally posted by: myocardia
That's okay, last January, there was a guy on xtremesystems.org who was running his Netburst P4 @ over 5 Ghz, using only good air cooling, with his computer inside the house. He went for quite a few pages, with nobody believing him (that he was only using air cooling), until he provided pictures.

He lived in northern Norway, IIRC, and had his PC sitting in his bedroom window (with the left side of the case open), with the window open, and a 20" box fan outside, that was blowing directly into his case. He said it was -18° or -20° (C) that day.

I would love to find this thread. I searched a bit for it but couldn't find it. I remember someone did something similar on these forums by putting their rig outside on their porch and closing their sliding glass window on the cables partially and got some pretty cool OCs..