Hyperhorn

"6 GHz incoming ..."

i7-2600K (ES): L035B191 #0430 <5.200 MHz (CPU-Z @ 5.16 GHz) Asus P8P67 (UEFI 1401), Air-Cooling Had some troubles with "Overvoltage Error" (IIRC had disabled all protection features ...), especially at even higher Vcore values, but CPU is pretty much maxed out at around 5.2 GHz, so doesn't matter anyway.

So that's why Lippokratis showed one of his setups instead. The interviews are just a part of a bigger article about the history of CPU overclocking (from the 80s up to now) in the PC Games Hardware print magazine 05/2011. More info here: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/heft/heft-archiv/?hid=05_11_Magazin http://www.pcgameshardware.de/heft/heft-archiv/?hid=05_11_DVD Thanks to everyone involved.

Great news, good luck there raja (a.k.a. "Just read the spec sheets carefully - it's all there" )!

Two questions: I guess the data pool is limited to the EU, because that is the important region for the partners. Is the Shamnio effect still there, if you include the remaining data? What is the label for the scale on the left, what does e.g. 0,5 mean?

The simplest to use is probably Hyper Pi as it is multi-threaded Super Pi leading to more IMC stress and higher RAM usage. For RAM reviews PCGH uses Memtest 86+ (bootable e.g. from USB, focus on #5 and #8 looping) and Prime 95 Blend with >90 % coverage, which works pretty decent even with Sandy Bridge. Sometimes HCI Memtest delievers error detection very quickly, but without the full version there's a limit of usable RAM, so you have to open it multiple times and confirm that you use the unregistered version. If you want to prevent to boot with to aggressive settings, which can corrupt important OS files, Memtest 86+ should be the first step before a Windows tool of your choice.

@Masterchief79: Yes, capacity is the important difference here. DDR3-2133 is pretty much ok for 4 x 4 GiByte and for daily use nobody should expect a giant leap latency-wise anyway. @Massman: Given the weak scaling at which voltage did you test the sticks actually? What about Memtest 86+, HCI Memtest, Prime 95 Blend or Hyper Pi?

i5-2500K: L046B582 2105 <5.100 MHz Can't boot Win @ 5.1 GHz (51 x 100)/1.5 V(+) at air with P8P67 (PLL OV enabled), so no further testing - max frequency is probably even <5 GHz.

Great memories, this was the time I joined Hwbot. Now here is my personal story, even if nobody asked for actually. In the second half of 06 I began to visit Hwbot on a regular basis and soon I had the idea of joining Hwbot with a team of members of the PC Games Hardware forum, which was my very first online forum in 2003 (joined 2004). But in 2006 PC Games Hardware still hadn't his own dedicated forum and a major part of the so-called Computec community were gamers and readers of the PC gaming magazines PC Games and PC Action. So I expected to encounter heavy resistance by trying to establish a Hwbot team and convince community members (and the forum admins) why it is a great idea to overclock your system not for daily usage but for better benchmark results. However I decided to choose the easier way and joined Awardfabrik, which was and still is one of my favorite overclocking communities. Awardfabrik was the home of some well-known extreme-overclockers already back then, so I had the chance to learn the basics for competetive overclocking. A few months after I joined the Awardfabrik team during Games Convention PC Games Hardware launched the forum PC Games Hardware Extreme, which was focused on extreme overclocking and was inspired by (XS-)fr3ak (my later workmate), so of course I had to register there immediately (user #36 ). As one of the initial member who was focused on extreme overclocking it was just a matter of time when I became a forum moderator at PC Games Hardware Extreme, especially considering that I already was a moderator at the classic, non-extreme PC Games Hardware forum. So after PC Games Hardware finally had choosen the way I asked for in the past, it was a pretty natural thing to join the Hwbot team of PC Games Hardware even if it was a tough decision to leave my first Hwbot team. In 2008 I started to work at PC Games Hardware and meanwhile I'm one of the administrators of the PC Games Hardware Extreme forum and Hwbot team captain and probably don't support it the most by uploading OC results (unfortunately ), but promoting and taking care of events like team competitions, the PCGH-EOS founded by der8auer and stuff like the costless Hwbot team shirt. PC Games Hardware might not be the most traditional team, but has a great morale and is dedicated to overclocking in all different shapes, which is fantastic and likely the main reason for its success.

Nice reference clock, congrats!

Sorry about the confusion I think it is not necessary to use such heavy jpg compression as used here. At a certain point image quality suffers too much just for saving 5 kb or so. But that's just my opinion, personally I use 80-90 % jpg quality for daily use.

Any chance to get even more compression artifacts?

Yes, 32M is likely the only 2D benchmark which might be limited here. Just thinking about a simple CW before starting 32M makes me feel sleepy already, hehe. I've seen two 128 MiByte sticks which passed your 160 MHz test for cheap, so I think I will try these and look around in the CPU categories with SDRAM. Maybe I even have an untested 512 MiByte SDRAM stick in my closet. I can't remember exactly - have to look it up.

Very useful, thank you! Is 2 x 128 MiByte enough for the Hwbot 2D benchmarks with a slim Win XP or will it slow down the system heavily so I have to go for 2 x 256 MiByte (or even more!?) to break the bottleneck? The last time I used a PC with 256 MiByte was 2004 or so.

Wow, impressive collection! I received an Asus CUSL2 in excellent condition (for free ) a few months ago, but have no SDRAM at home yet. So please tell me what SDRAM is worth looking out for.

So you clicked I like it!? Nasty dinos ...

That's the reason, why I'm tagging my screenshots ... However this one is pretty easy to spot even without comparing it to DAKARA's screenshot.

So hicookie is Christian Ney and comes from Austria in reality? That was a well-protected OC secret, but thanks to Hwbot the truth came out. Looking forward to more previews, the profile looks clean and a bit fresher; scaling for high-res-displays is a big plus for sure.

So this is the Coke light and pizza(?) tweak?

That would be a nice feature for sure. As we know it's not unusual, that someone prefers 3D over 2D or vice versa, so this could be make viewable this way. However I have no idea if the hwbot server would be able to handle the awesomeness of this additional feature.

Happy birthday, enjoy the day!

Great score!

RAM-frequency needs to get fixed ...

I'll be there for two days (Thursday + Friday IIRC) doing the usual press stuff (--> tough schedule) again. If someone recognizes me, feel free to approach, but have in mind people tend to say I'm rather reticent (especially in busy atmosphere), so that's not a sign of disrespect. Anyway like always there will be much interesting new stuff at Cebit, so I recommend to establish your own individual schedule so you don't miss the important things you want to see. @massman: Actually I missed a few chances to place my fist in your face - in fact even M.Beier remained untouched every time.

Was Sandy Bridge out there already when you started Aquamark? j/k