So I have a super old vapochill cooler from one of the silver and red case coolers that was hacked into a lian Li pc-70 case and does go sub zero. under a benchmarking load the cooling head is maxing out at -5 C and the cpu in use is an anthlon XP so no IHS. what type of pics would I need to provide to work towards this achievement?
https://hwbot.org/submission/5558037_flareonlover139_3dmark03_geforce_7800_gs_14062_marks

Edited May 12, 20241 yr by FlareonLover139

These pictures look good , but you need multi amount of benchmarks to get the achievement

Plan is to run basicily every benchmark I can on here and submit the scores (not going to set any records but should still have a good showing) due to the nature of the cooler for some of them I need to wait for cooler days to run them (looking at you superPi32m that pegs the CPU for around 35 minutes) half the point of running posting all the scores is to back up my claim that this is the fastest socket A system in the province of alberta

Put your foot on the gas. 

this is my retro gaming rig and I would like to not blow it up by pushing the rather expensive to replace CPU to far or frying the NB on the motherboard
https://pastebin.com/HvEKJA1K
full parts list of the rig

Gonna be impossible to support your claim when you're not willing to clock. 

this is a 1.8Ghz stock clock chip running at 2.52Ghz so that is a 40% overclock, fastest non OCed socket A cpu was 2.33ghz

Edited May 19, 20241 yr by FlareonLover139

and that is not just a clock I turn it upto for benchmarking, that is the systems clock for gaming

Edited May 19, 20241 yr by FlareonLover139

You have the cooling, socket A will take 1.85v all day long without issue. Game at 2.7

FWIW, I've been doing socket A since it's inception. 

the CPU might be able to but my cooler is where things get questionable as I have as early vapochill from 2000 that still has R134A in it so is only rated at 120watts, I have swapped out the original slow speed 120by38mm fan with a 4300RPM server fan so that might buy me another 10 or 20 watts. the fastest I have got windows to boot at was 2.73Ghz into safe mode (was trying to get a good time in super pi and safe mode helps on this old CPU) but just to boot was 1.9V and it was still not able to even do a 1m run so I would have to raise the voltage upto likely 1.95V (don't think 1.925 would cut it) and at that point I might push the cooler out of equilibrium and loose regulataion

I am not the original owner of this case and only bought it last year and put a good bit of money (for a uni student) into building the system so I am a bit more careful then someone who has been doing this since socket A was new

slightly off topic but as I am using retro hardware I am good to use a modded bios for my motherboard (nothing is said about this one way or the other in the rules) and modded GPU drivers. as the NGO Optimized version of forceware 84.56 plays very nice with the system for overclocking, as section 3.2A of the general rules says that this rule is not actively applied to pre 2010 hardware and drivers

Yes, you can use modded bios and drivers.

Edited May 20, 20241 yr by Mr.Scott

as you said you have been playing with socket A since it was new can you explain exactly what the L12 mod is (from what I am reading it should unlock locked multi chips) but I can not find exactly what it is and some places are even saying it would help my XP-m. if it is just to unlock that would be good as I have a few other barton and thoroughbred non mobile chips I would love to try and push.
I was still in diapers when socket A was replaced so trying to find this stuff out can be a bit like an archaeologist trying to figure out what some thing is when all the writings from the day do not explain it as everyone just knew what it was

Edited May 21, 20241 yr by FlareonLover139

4 hours ago, FlareonLover139 said:

as you said you have been playing with socket A since it was new can you explain exactly what the L12 mod is (from what I am reading it should unlock locked multi chips) but I can not find exactly what it is and some places are even saying it would help my XP-m. if it is just to unlock that would be good as I have a few other barton and thoroughbred non mobile chips I would love to try and push.
I was still in diapers when socket A was replaced so trying to find this stuff out can be a bit like an archaeologist trying to figure out what some thing is when all the writings from the day do not explain it as everyone just knew what it was

L12 mod helps with high FSB. Makes the board think you're running a 400 chip.

Mobile mod is what you want for unlocking. 

Fab 51 has all the info. Wayback machine it.

14 minutes ago, Mr.Scott said:

L12 mod helps with high FSB. Makes the board think you're running a 400 chip.

Mobile mod is what you want for unlocking. 

Fab 51 has all the info. Wayback machine it.

thank you, looks like I just need to mess with L5 and then my bios can handle the rest
https://web.archive.org/web/20071020015931/http://fab51.com/cpu/barton/athlon-e23.html#L5