Tweakers.net and Asus go a overklokevenement host, with the introduction of Intel’s Lynnfield cpus and the P55 chipset is central. The winners get the chance to the cpu’s all for the release to clocks.
To the upcoming P55 platform and its Lynnfield processors from Intel to the utmost test, organizes Tweakers.net together with Asus has an overclocking event for the Benelux. First, a preliminary round is held, after which Tweakers.net three teams selected. These three teams will receive the decision on a P55 motherboard and a Lynnfield cpu, and then during the finals, at the headquarters of Tweakers.net in Amersfoort their arts show. The final will be on a Saturday in september; an exact date will be announced soon.
The preliminary rounds are open: anyone can join, but the use of extreme cooling methods such as dry ice and LN2 is encouraged. It is intended to be with any of the current Core i7 cpus, so the i7 920, i7 940, i7 950, i7 965 or the i7 975, as short a time as possible SuperPi 32M-time to put down. The use of different cpus is not permitted. However, all the X58 motherboards admitted, regardless of the manufacturer. The full rules on the forum to be found.
As soon as the winners of the preliminary rounds are known, they will as quickly as possible a P55 motherboard from Asus and a Lynnfield cpu received. Which motherboard it is exactly concerns is not yet clear, but it would be a P7P55D Deluxe, or the Asus Maximus Formula III. The overclockers can gain experience with the bios and with the specific characteristics of both the system board as the cpu. Since the cpus and the motherboards before the launch date at the overclockers will be arriving, is of the respective participants are expected to stick to a strict duty of confidentiality to keep.
When the launch date of the new processors and the motherboards are approaching, the three overklokteams on the Tweakers.just headquarters invited. The overclockers take the Asus motherboard, the Lynnfield-cpu and of course their own LN2 tubes or other cooling equipment. Except for the motherboard, Asus also equipped with two GTX285’s per team, so that it is possible in sli-mode benchmarks to run. Corsair supplies the memory modules when the power supplies. Of course, there are the necessary dewars is ready, that is up to the brim with LN2 are filled.
During the final this time as quickly as possible SuperPi 8M time to be put down, but with this cpu-intensive benchmark is the ability of the overclockers also tested with 3DMark06. A combination of the scores in both benchmarks will be a winner designate. Except for the eternal fame which the three teams, of course, in part will fall, the winner also ran off with a number of P55-based motherboards from Asus, a GTX285 from the finale, a GTX285 Matrix video card and the Asus RoG OC station. The losers will have to make do with the system board out of the finals, as well as a GTX285, and who knows the Lynnfield processor.
