GIGABYTE X'MAS & New Year Contest

Christian Ney

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Thursday, December 15th 2011, 12:01pm

The GIGABYTE ‘Xmas and New Year Contest’ is open to all Overclockers using any AMD APU on any GIGABYTE socket FM1 A75 or A55 series motherboard, using any cooling solution. The contest winner will take home a GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD5 motherboard, with second and third place taking a GA-990FXA-UD3. Good luck everyone!

Link to the competition: http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_xmas_ny_contest/

Competition end : 31 January 2012

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Christian Ney

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Sunday, January 22nd 2012, 10:18am

Okay let's rockkkkkkkkk :vinsent:

Setup:

Cooling: Gelid Solutions GX-7 / Piotres' Single Stage
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-A75-UD4H
Memory: GeIL Evo Corsa 2400 MHz CL11 16GB Kit (4GB stick used)
CPU: AMD A8-3870K
Graphics Card: Asus Radeon HD 5550
Power Supply: Seasonic X-Series 750 Watts
Hard Drive: OCZ Vertex 2

Results on air:

4044.23 MHz CPU Frequency (Used only 1.55v, stock is 1.413v)
162.2 MHz Reference clock
1335.6 MHz DDR3 Memory Clock

Results with CPU cooled by Single Stage:

I insulated only with 2 pcs of armaflex, too lazy

1363.6 MHz Memory Clock
4751.83 MHz CPU Frequency
170.17 MHz Motherboard Reference Clock

More is coming with CPU under LN2 later this week and I hope I have time to make an homemade memory Freezer for the GeIL Memory sticks so I can clock it higherrrrrrr :vinsent:

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Sunday, January 22nd 2012, 6:22pm

Looks like a shitload of fun

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Sunday, January 22nd 2012, 6:49pm

LN2 Memory container on the way:

http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/module….php?album=1553

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Monday, January 23rd 2012, 9:50am

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LN2 Memory container on the way:

http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/module….php?album=1553

LOL chris! This looks like even more fun

Sys 1 Arbeitsviech: Gigabyte X58A-UD7, Core i7 920 @ 3.6GHz, ATI Radeon HD 6970, 6 GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600, OCZ Vertex 3 240 GByte SSD, 750 GB Samsung HDD
Sys 2 Linux Server: Gigabyte X48-DQ6, QX6850, Billige Graka, 4 GB DDR3, 1 x 36 GB WD Raptor, 6 x 2TB, 2 x 1.5 TB
MacBook Pro 13 Zoll, 8 GB RAM, Samsung PM 830 256 GB SSD

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Monday, January 23rd 2012, 8:14pm

Ready for wednesday:

http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/module….php?album=1557

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Tuesday, January 24th 2012, 12:13pm

Very nice idea with the article! Did you girl friend help you take the pics?

Sys 1 Arbeitsviech: Gigabyte X58A-UD7, Core i7 920 @ 3.6GHz, ATI Radeon HD 6970, 6 GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600, OCZ Vertex 3 240 GByte SSD, 750 GB Samsung HDD
Sys 2 Linux Server: Gigabyte X48-DQ6, QX6850, Billige Graka, 4 GB DDR3, 1 x 36 GB WD Raptor, 6 x 2TB, 2 x 1.5 TB
MacBook Pro 13 Zoll, 8 GB RAM, Samsung PM 830 256 GB SSD

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Tuesday, January 24th 2012, 12:28pm

nope, she is working for her exams her.....

I should do the same

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Wednesday, January 25th 2012, 12:39pm

LN2 is home :irre:

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Wednesday, January 25th 2012, 4:45pm

Session is over,

hehe they claimed WR:
http://gigabytedaily.blogspot.com/2012/0…falling-on.html

I just destroyed it

+

=

Me:

Gimme a random CPU, 5L of LN2, 10 minutes and I set the rules :irre:

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Thursday, January 26th 2012, 7:33pm

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Friday, January 27th 2012, 2:35pm

LoooooooL

Reading your posts is just sooo much fun

Congratz Chris! You really

them

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Sys 2 Linux Server: Gigabyte X48-DQ6, QX6850, Billige Graka, 4 GB DDR3, 1 x 36 GB WD Raptor, 6 x 2TB, 2 x 1.5 TB
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Friday, January 27th 2012, 7:36pm

Damn

http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_xmas_ny_contest/

_mat_ took the lead, I need a new chip for the reference clock/bus speed, mine sux too hard on this
:vinsent:

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Saturday, January 28th 2012, 8:52am

hehe:

http://gigabytedaily.blogspot.com/2012/0…t-is-going.html
http://hwbot.org/newsflash/1607_amd_llan…gabyte_a75_ud4h
posted also on gigabyte's and GeIL's twitter and facebook

:pfeifen:

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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 1:06pm

spent two whole days to hit 170+ MHz with this chip, no way :kopfantisch:

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Tuesday, January 31st 2012, 9:41am

Okay, after 3 days I finally found the workaround, here we go, back on stage, beat this baby:

:zocken:

http://hwbot.org/submission/2247675

Will go pick up 3L of LN2 and now that I am ready to beat the ref clock Record on Llano :vinsent:

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Tuesday, January 31st 2012, 1:57pm

Tsunamijuan is back benching :keeporder:

Okay let's play too :verrueckt:

http://hwbot.org/submission/2248077_

http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_xmas_ny_contest/stage/324_

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Tuesday, January 31st 2012, 2:41pm

Quoted from "Christian Ney"

Tsunamijuan is back benching

Okay let's play too

http://hwbot.org/submission/2248077_

http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_xmas_ny_contest/stage/324_

Simply reading your comments is fun!

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MacBook Pro 13 Zoll, 8 GB RAM, Samsung PM 830 256 GB SSD

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Tuesday, January 31st 2012, 6:12pm

DOMINATION :pcwar:

lol

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Tuesday, January 31st 2012, 10:11pm

Very nice Chris! Congratz!!

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