Gigabyte X58A-OC + Intel Core i7-990X @ 6.18GHz - LN2 Overclocking

[Joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh1]

Now lets see you take the Vaseline off :P

[GHzgr]

@Joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh1

Very easily, with the heat from a normal hairdryer :)

[eastsidahboy]

they are very bored with computers

[thejikusheki]

the virginity is strong with this one

[garanveg]

epic realistic porn can i see

[TheJohny96]

Overclocking this CPU Intel® Core™ i7-3960X :troll:

[Andrei95Ro]

@zumerian that's heat conducting paste so it won't overheat and burn

[Andrei95Ro]

@XxNate96xX that's heat conducting paste so it won't overheat and burn

[XxNate96xX]

what the heck is the Vaseline for

[zumerian]

@XxNate96xX im thinking to protect against condensation..?!?

[BenchZowner]

@XxNate96xX Vaseline is being used to protect the hardware from any mishaps, like condensation forming on the motherboard.

[olimoreau1]

@BenchZowner nononono it will never run this beast x)

[BenchZowner]

@olimoreau1 Trust me, it did :p

[olimoreau1]

That's a nice pc you have there... but will it run minecraft ?

[BenchZowner]

@olimoreau1 nope, but it can run minesweeper :p

[honsiong]

Car uses nitro

PC uses it too :)

[psehmovies]

if that ln2 would of droped on your hands, that would beee soo bade, be more careful :(

[BenchZowner]

@psehmovies it would be so NOT bad at all.

unless you spill continuously like a liter ( 1/4 gallon ) or put your hand inside it for more than 2 seconds, you won't get hurt at all.

[blanarahul]

I can bet that only .001% of the pc users go below sub zero. I find only refrigerating the cpu useful.

[BenchZowner]

@blanarahul I see ~2400 users with subzero cooling at HWbot [dot] org

There are at least another 100-150.

Definitely not a big amount, but it ain't .001.

For a gamer a phase change ( -20C to -40C depending on the unit's capabilities ) to cool the graphics card is the best option.

A GTX 580 at 1100MHz is simply more than adequate for any modern game.

2500K/2600K @ 4.3-4.5GHz on air/water cooling and 8GB of RAM. and you're set

[blanarahul]

@BenchZowner Ya you are right

[NightSociety]

I wonder how fast Windows startup without the fastforwarding. Do u have a video that has realtime startup?

[LordFlick]

the nitrogen thing seems a bit unsafe but cool proof of concept no matter how impractical

[doodskie999]

nasa wants their pc back

[exodush4x]

What songs are those I love them!!!

[EvanProductions2]

I didnt even know vaseline wouldnt hurt your mobo......time to try............

[DeathMagneticReece]

Take advantage of this power, play minecraft. Whats your FPS?

[BenchZowner]

@DeathMagneticReece 9999fps

[DeathMagneticReece]

@BenchZowner Notch fps

[TheCameltotem]

Is he baking a cake?

[techno2b]

zoltan



[romefox]

Did you have to scrap it after you were done - I cant imagine how you would be able to clean off all that Vaseline from the CPU and MoBo?????

[BenchZowner]

@romefox Hairdryer and let the vaseline melt and run off the board :)

[romefox]

@BenchZowner Hmmm, I guess it was easier then I imagined - interesting!

[SkulLzSouL]

i wish i could get free sandwich for life :D

[90aMiN90]

what the hell are you doing?

i cant even understand

this is so brilliant

[BenchZowner]

You guys got too much time on your hands :p

[bo2web]

Using such liquid without any glove !!! Scary...

[BBQTeach]

Your CPU must feel very battered and abused right now...

[TeamTrollFull]

When i saw you put Vaseline on your motherboard.....

[Akoulino]

gia sou re commando GHzgr

[techrockel]

that is one way to play pacman

[iJordan1811]

I probab;y sound dumb saying this, but what is that stuff you put on the back at the beginning and why are you putting vaseline on it xD

[BenchZowner]

@iJordan1811 The stuff I'm putting on the rear side of the motherboard is pipe wrap insulation tape ( Frostking Self-Adhesive Foil and Foam ).

Since we are reaching very cold, sub-ambient ( room temperature ) temperatures, condensation will more than likely appear, and you don't want any condensation to form on the hardware because it will short-circuit it and you'll suffer ( dead hardware or reboots and malfunctions, temporary or permanent ).

That's why we insulate it with vaseline & the foam

[iJordan1811]

@BenchZowner Ahh well that clears that up :P Thanks.

[downloads2011]

best cpu evar!

[downloads2011]

07:41 ... -71.0 *C CPU?? Seriosly?

[BenchZowner]

@downloads2011 Ya, srsly :D

[downloads2011]

@BenchZowner coool!!

[CrASYmUZIk]

How much did that liquid bitrogen container cost? i kinda wana buy some and play with it :P, like throwing it off from a building to a person xD

[BenchZowner]

@CrASYmUZIk Brand new they are quite expensive, a 18L dewar usually goes for 800$ (USD).

[CrASYmUZIk]

@BenchZowner ooh , that alot , how much would a galon cost then if not , how much the half of a galon? sorry i dont know how to tell ,

[BenchZowner]

@CrASYmUZIk A gallon container or a gallon of liquid nitrogen ? A gallon container costs around 100$.

the liquid itself is cheap, you can find it as low as 1.5$ per gallon.

[CrASYmUZIk]

@BenchZowner Thats what i wanted to know i would spend 100$ for the liquid and the conatiner for once and keep buying the liquid :P for 1.5$ :p

[exoticg9]

i wold like to see that cpu stresing

[TheKnightSolaris]

Vasseline ?

[BenchZowner]

@TheKnightSolaris Yes, Vaseline.

What's wrong with vaseline ?

It's a very good insulator, does the job efficiently and doesn't take much time to apply.

[TheKnightSolaris]

@BenchZowner I Use vasseline to make my dick run smoothly..

[BenchZowner]

@TheKnightSolaris I'm so sorry to hear that you have a very small dick my friend.

[eduardomyugi]

My pentium 3 800 MHz will leave this CPU waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind :D

[halo56822]

try overclocking an opteron 6176 12 core to 6 ghz and compare them

[TheCalvertz]

lol vga cable

[ionizdgrunt2]

i think people that do this, go WAY to extreme on cooling..... i think it'd be fine with a dual or quad radiator, or even a MASSIVE heatsink.

[BenchZowner]

@ionizdgrunt2 YOU THINK, BUT YOU ARE CLEARLY WRONG my friend.

You need sub-zero ( colder than -50C tbe ) cooling to reach these speeds, and obviously any watercooling solution can't do that.

[TheExprima]

That's a lot of lube.

[alexzeller]

ok then let the liquid helium flow on your hand we all wanna see it. everybody will be really dissapointed if you dont do : )

[ZebraSlinky]

next time do it in a meat freezer

[wesleykevinanthony]

looks like you're fingering it. nasty boy!

[Adripokev]

será la puta polla de rápido ,pero te has quedado en banca rota xD yo con 400 euros me hago un ordenador que ira a 3,2 , pero tu te habrás gastao mas de 3000 euros fijo xD

[alexzeller]

yeah nice just let the liquid nitrogen flow over your hand and then give someone a high-five xD

[mrbones102]

@alexzeller you can pour liquid nitrogen on your hand it wont free instantly, just burn alittle. It's not "that cold' where the instant something touches it, it freezes solid. Now liquid Helium, thats another story! :p

[Sicari0ne]

tanto pedo para un oc basura -.-

[whitebeard28]

watching this make me hungry weird 

[elohelmao]

Gloves? He ain't making a sandwich! :)

[21lausa]

ohh men your destroying your mother board



[KayChasm]

why the fuck are you poring liquid nitrogen with no glove on from a huge container!!!!

[TheMrTantalum]

@KayChasm Cause it can't actually harm you. The temperature difference between your hand and the liquid nitrogen is so great that the LN2 boils on impact. It creates a gas barrier of GN2 between the LN2 and your hand :) So pretty much you're safe unless you pour it on you continually or you stick your hand into the container.

[KayChasm]

@TheMrTantalum someones smart :)

thanks

[TheMrTantalum]

@KayChasm no problem :P you pick up a few things when you browse the internet aimlessly out of boredom XD

[djdeadforce]

LOL, yeah dude i totally keep liquid nitrogen on hand all the time and then pour it from a huge vat into a thermus cup with no gloves.

[pirrracy]

play some games next time ...

[BenchZowner]

@pirrracy Ok boss, thank you boss!

[pirrracy]

@BenchZowner Damn straight.

[BenchZowner]

@MRLegitUser First of all, this is Windows 7, not Windows XP.

No matter what, why on earth would you say "Windows XP fail" ?

Windows XP is the fastest OS for lots of benchmarks ( like SuperPi, PiFast, wPrime, 3D Mark2001SE, 3D Mark06 single card, etc ).

We use the "proper" operating system for each benchmark, you can run 3D Mark2001SE for example under Win7 but the score will be 20k points or more below what you'd get at the exact same clocks & configuration under Windows XP.

[wo0obly]

-90 degrees? On a CPU? cool

[kevinsmammaxd]

hicookie took it over 7ghz

[BenchZowner]

@kevinsmammaxd It's a CPU matter.

Each piece has its own limits... ours was just crap ( just like my luck... or my lack of luck ).

[kevinsmammaxd]

@BenchZowner yeah it was crap cuz timetolivecustoms took it 6ghz with dry ice which is wormer than LN2

[BenchZowner]

@kevinsmammaxd and your point is ?

[kevinsmammaxd]

@BenchZowner to agree it was crap :S

[artlover668]

why vaseline ? 

[BenchZowner]

@artlover668 Vaseline works as an insulator.

If any water forms ( from the humidity ) anywhere on the setup, it prevents it from reaching the PCB ( the circuit board ) and the electronic components, saving the hardware's life ( the hardware could error, malfunction, or die from a short-circuit if water comes in contact with the electronic components on the motherboard ).

There are several ways & products to insulate the motherboard, I used vaseline because it's quick to apply & remove & safe.

[capatais777]

wtf 6.18

[nrL3ITO]

music name PLS!!!

[worldpeaceonthis]

without gloves, I would not do;)

[BenchZowner]

@worldpeaceonthis Unless you really screw things up ( like trapping your hand under the dewar ) you won't be under any danger.

Bad gloves = worse than without, because the nitrogen can get trapped inside them and that's what can hurt you ( from burnmarks to extreme tissue damage ), continuous contact.

[jmpatinhas15]

no vaseline jokes?

[madebarriere]

can i ask why did you cool the cpu to almost 0 degress and then heated it up again?

[BenchZowner]

@madebarriere I wanted to test the contact between the processor and the pot ( the cooling "device" in which we poor the liquid nitrogen ).

The temperature sensors inside each core of the CPU can only report temps from 0C and higher, that's why we cooled the pot to ~0C.

If the CPU Core temps are close to eachother, and altogether near the pot temperature you're set to go ( from that point and on the only temperature reading you have is the pot's temperature ).

[madebarriere]

@BenchZowner ohhhh that makes a lot of sense! thank you sire =)

[doctoryoinky]

@madebarriere negative bro, they never heated it up. it just went below zero

[madebarriere]

@doctoryoinky yes they did bro, watch carefully :)

[doctoryoinky]

@madebarriere ya because everyone knows that adding liquid nitrogen to things makes them warmer. you watch carefully as a minus sign appears on the thermometer.

[BenchZowner]

@doctoryoinky We did heat it up, with the mapp gas ( turbotorch ) in the beginning.

All the details are there, 2 comments prior to this one ( by me )

[JamieandhisIbanez]

@doctoryoinky you can see it goes up again before they cool it down to minus figures. watch closely

[BenchZowner]

@JamieandhisIbanez We did heat it up, right at the start, before it went below 0C.

Below or above 0C doesn't matter.

What we wanted was to check the contact of the pot & the CPU by checking the real temperatures of the CPU cores, that's why I told crio to stop pouring LN2 in the pot when it got close to 0C ( the CPU temperature sensors work only above 0C ).

I believe I explained why we did what we did a few comments below.

If you guys have any questions unanswered shoot.

[leafbob1]

i don't think you we're exactly expecting an answer but you can't control when you want to nitrogen to stop cooling and as you know processors have a certain operating temperature... it is bad to go that close to 0 so he had to heat it back up a normal operating temperature. thats my assumption anyways... but he did go down to -1000 .... so i dunno lol :P

[BenchZowner]

@leafbob1 You can control the "cooling" ( temperature ) just fine.

Everything depends on how much nitrogen you pour and at what rate.

The cool down to near 0 and heat back up was explained by me a few comment pages ago, re-check the comments.

[leafbob1]

@BenchZowner ok thanks :)

[com3se3m3]

@madebarriere It creates an iced layer over the cpu, also if the CPU is too cold it won't boot

[TonysTactics]

I'm sorry, why is the CPU crap?

[GHzgr]

@TonysTactics

The "overclocking sample" was... bad, not the CPU, as a processor, i mean.

We aimed at 6.5GHz with HT enabled but...

[BenchZowner]

This is just the beginning.

Next time around we'll have a much better CPU and a top of the line graphics card cooled by liquid nitrogen as well to run lots of 2D & 3D benchmarks.

Thanks George & GHz.gr for the hospitality and the chance to play with the X58A-OC.

See ya soon!

[Jimbondo]

That's one sophisticated coffee warmer :)

[drefrem]

sweet overclock paidia fovera 6Ghz

[Sambrero44]

very cool :)