At the headquarters of Tweakers.net was on Sunday, 18 may the Dutch vga-finals of the MSI OC Challenge held. Ten participants undertook with the necessary cooling and a trip to Amersfoort.
The ten for the preliminaries selected participants appeared Sunday morning with phase-changekoelers, containers, liquid nitrogen and containers of dry ice on the sidewalk in front of Tweakers.net. The tweakers would themselves go out to make any of the three overclockers are allowed to go to the next round, and finally in August to represent the Netherlands in the European finals.
The overclockers had a MSI NX8600GT-T2D256E-OC/D3 graphics card sent received, so that they enjoy the independent cooling could confirm and make the necessary potentiometers and measuring points for voltagemods could solder them yet. In the lab Tweakers.net they were given the decision on a P35-Platinum motherboard from MSI with an Intel quadcore Q6700 and two reeptjes 2GB of ddr2 memory from Kingston. A WD Raptor with Windows XP with the latest drivers and, of course, a diet made the test complete.
Eventually managed, partly by problems with the images on the hard drives, six participants a result. One of the overclockers blew unfortunately, almost immediately after arrival a memory chip from the board, as completed. n 8600 card in accordance with the recipient is already doa was: DesertShooter may therefore at home are overclocking try and the result to submit. We examine how we are run as fairly as possible can be processed so that the other participants will not be discriminated against. Therefore, the participants who continue to the next round are still not final, as number 3 of his bronze place supplanted. The results were determined by employees of Tweakers.net in Nature, achieved frame rates of 3DMark01 at all. The preliminary ranking is:
1: Symon-EN with 430,8 fps
2: extera with 412,4 fps
3: snot_aap with 410,6 fps
4: YoghurtO_o with 369,8 fps
5: JulienN with 327,6 fps
6: lism with 318fps
The results were voltagemods and the necessary cooling is achieved. Symon-EN knew with a phase-changekoeler the best result, while the tank ln2 from extera, of course, not only for the necessary cooling provided him the (temporary) second place resulted, but also nice shots. Also the pellets of dry ice, in combination with acetone, not only the gpu: also cans were with the frozen carbon dioxide for cooling. In anticipation of the outcome of DesertShooter we can no congratulations to hand out, but we want to thank each and every one for their participation and a fun day. Hope to see you at the second round!
