Sampsa

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Short English summary of the article published on Muropaketti.com: http://muropaketti.com/artikkelit/ylikellotus/retro-ylikellotusta-me-tulosten-metsastysta-celeron-300alla,4

Not yet with Dry Ice, might go higher with LN2

Thanks but this is definitely not a comeback I did this retro project just for my own fun. I also consider Celeron 300A to be the most important CPU model in the history of overclocking so I wanted to have WRs with this processor

Taped some Slot 1 pins to raise default voltage from 2,0V -> 2,2V which allowed 2,7V from Abit BE6-2 bios (Softmenu III)

It could do 6450 MHz in wPrime 32M but since I wasn't aware what are good clocks I aimed straight to 6500 MHz (did 50 %)..

I'm back home from the event, thanks to Petri for organizing everything and nice to meet everyone, some new and some old faces. I quickly tested maybe six 3770Ks with "2 cores, aircooling, low vcore" method and had 3 bad ones (+1,4V), 2 ok ones and 1 good one which I quickly tested under LN2. So many things are wrong with these results, just ask Massman but someone had set the bar to others: - Windows 7 OS - No tweaks - Low memory clocks and default settings - 2 cores used in Spi1M The CPU could do 4C/8T wPrime 32M @ 6400 MHz and 2C/2T Super PI 1M @ 6700 MHz with 1,86V and -184C full SF3D Inflection Point pot: http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2299759_sampsa_superpi_core_i7_3770k_5sec_445ms http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2299768_sampsa_wprime_32m_core_i7_3770k_3sec_745ms [hwbot=2299759]submission[/hwbot] [hwbot=2299768]submission[/hwbot]

Hehe, thanks everyone for your kind words but this seriously isn't any kind of news but just a prank by massman, well deserved though Nothing special or drama involved in my case, overclocking and extreme-overclocking has been a hobby for me past +10 years together with writing hardware news & articles. It also turned from hobby into a full time job in 2000 and in the past good 3DMark scores and WRs were a good way for me as an editor to build up good relationships to manufacturers to help my job. A lot has happened during these 10 years from simple Celeron 300A & Abit BH-6 combo to 6-core CPUs & 4-Way SLI/CFX configurations and it has been an interesting journey to follow how manufacturers have adapted this hobby to one of their key features in product development and marketing. The passion I had for pushing CPUs and GPUs higher and higher with all different kind of cooling methods (air, water, peltier, compressors, dry ice, liquid nitrogen & liquid helium) during these years is unfortunately just no longer there. Aiming for top spots in benchmarks can be addictive and exhausting. You keep thinking about the last bench session, what could be improved and how much more and worrying about how to match the parts other people have. Not to mention endless loop with constant product launches which make current results insignificant during one night and recent "problems" in the scene with manufacturer support with cherry picked ES parts the majority won't even have chance to get hands on. Like in every competitive "sports" unfortunately also overclocking includes nowadays too much drama, personal disagreements and even cheating. Even though hwbot have done a great job with rules and guidelines, there are still many loopholes and just your conscience to decide what is right and wrong. I've been lucky enough to meet most of the known overclockers in several live events around the world and it has been a pleasure to put a face to name. Especially the live overclocking competitions can be very exciting when properly organized and this is still one area which I might be interested of. I've recently found the same passion I once had for overclocking from golf. It made me realize that a hobby should be something which I do for my own fun, feel happy about it and my mind is relaxed while playing. I also got married earlier this year and if everything goes well we have a second generation overclocker coming up in April. Anyway I'll be following the overclocking scene closely even though not being active myself. Good luck to everyone and enjoy your hobby Regards, Sampsa --- Couple overclocking pics from archives: Slot A Athlon 800 MHz @ 1185 MHz with single stage compressor: TurboPLL on MSI 6163 motherboard to raise FSB with crystals AMD Athlon 1400 @ 2187 MHz with LN2 in 2001: Straight 3,3V line from ATX connector to PWM Pentium 4 2,2 GHz @ 3,63 GHz and Spi1M: One of the first LN2 cooled VGA (GeForce 4 Ti4600) in 2002: Radeon 9700 Pro under LN2 later same year: ATI Radeon X800 XT PE with (first ever?) solid copper LN2 vga pot by Kamu in 2003: --- Last but not least, macci & me visiting Futuremark 10 years ago

massman.exe gave me 100k boost, thanks for the tip Pieter!

boris, thanks, just a first test at home, will try again

thanks, already finished GT1 @ 1415, crashed in the end of GT2. Also need to unlock memory frequency slider from CCC for more. This is retail reference Asus EAH5870 with no mods

@hipro5, Do you mix Dreamhack and OC-competition in Austria? If you mean what has been talked in Austria event, Sam told us that he has seen stummerwinter's CPU in some event in Spain and he said the IHS was blank. We saw the CPU personally later in Dreamhack and it was not true. This is normal retail. Also, I don't feel like I have personally "accused" anyone or "stubbed" anyone's back. I don't know what you mean by "doing such a thing". It's normal to discuss, talk and speculate about results in oc-community.