Overclocking NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

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NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 275 early April.
Tweaktown takes a look at overclocking the GeForce GTX 275.
Quote: "While overclocking on NVIDIA cards is slightly more involved due to the fact that the drivers don’t have any embedded overclocking software (unlike ATI with its Overdrive functionality), NVIDIA’s cards do only require the installation of a small program called RivaTuner to get around this. Read more

Posted on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Intel Core i7 Overclocking Guide

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Hothardware published a how-to guide for overclocking the Intel Core i7 CPUs.
Quote:"Intel's Core i7 processor offers a significant performance increase over previous generation Core 2 processors. In addition, like the legacy Core 2 architecture, the new Core i7 also has a bunch more headroom for wringing upside performance out of the chip, maximizing value, power and return on your investment with overclocking. Read more

Posted on Tue, 7 Apr 2009 16:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Core i7 Overclocking World Record set at 5510.09MHz

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Asus reports that the Japanese overclocking enthusiast duck has set a new overclocking world record on a Core i7 CPUT with the ASUS ROG Rampage II Extreme motherboard.
The record is now at 5510.09 MHz. a CPU overclocking veteran, duck still holds the world’s highest frequency for overclocking a Pentium 4 631 CPU to a staggering 8180.4MHz last year.

The Core i7 CPU used for this overclocking record is of course the expensive Core i7 965 Extreme. Read more

Posted on Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:57:44 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Overclocking Championship on Intel Core i7 announced

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Tom's Hardware announced an Overdrive Overclocking Championship taking place in the United States, Germany, Taiwan, France, and Italy. The winner scores a $5,000 gift certificate to an online shop of their choice.
The overclockers will compete in the preliminary trials on Intel Core 2 Duo Desktop Processor E8600 and for the final take overclocking to the new Intel Core i7. Liquid nitrogen will be deployed to provide the maximum possible cooling effect on the components. Read more

Posted on Thu, 6 Nov 2008 01:48:24 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Overclocking the Intel E7200 low Budget 45nm CPU

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Madshrimps published a report about overclocking the Intel E7200 low budget 45nm CPU.

Quote: "The release of the Intel Core 2 Duo E8x00 series caused a lot of overclocking records to be broken. Now we have a light version of those processors, Intel Core 2 Duo E7xx series. Read more

Posted on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

GeForce 9800 GTX Extreme Overclocking Experiment

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MadShrimps reports about a GeForce 9800 GTX Extreme Overclocking Experiment.

Quote from the review: "The GeForce 9800 GTX product was received with mixed feelings; on the one hand you had an affordable high end VGA solution, but on the other hand it was not much of improvement over the 8800 GTX. Read more

Posted on Wed, 14 May 2008 20:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Intel Xeon X3320 45nm Quad Core Overclocking Test

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MadShrimps tested the overclocking skills of the Intel Xeon X3320 45nm Quad Core CPU.

Quote from the test: "The Xeon X3320 is the server version of the desktop Q9300 Quad Core processor, the new 45nm process makes this a cool running CPU. Read more

Posted on Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MSI NX8600GT Twin Turbo Shader Overclocking Geforce 8600GT Review

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PCStats published a review of the MSI NX8600GT Twin Turbo Shader Overclocking Geforce 8600GT graphics card, also known apparently as the graphics card with longest name.

Quote from the review: "MSI's NX8600GT Twin Turbo videocard is especially interesting, it's got push-button shader overclocking! Based on nVidia's DirectX10 compliant GeForce 8600GT GPU, MSI's NX8600GT Twin Turbo has 256MB of GDDR3 and is compatible with the PCI Express x16 standard. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 Nov 2007 19:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Overclocking the Intel X6800 with Liquid Nitrogen

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The OCTB team at MadShrimps takes the Intel X6800 CPU to its limits by cooling it with Liquid Nitrogen.

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"Today we take a closer look at what it takes to overclock a new Intel Core 2 X6800 beyond the limits of air cooled speeds. In general if one wants to push his hardware further than intended by the manufacturer the cooling of the device is upgraded as well as the power input. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Apr 2007 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA Says No to G80 Overclocking?

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The Inq is reporting that NVIDIA has put the kibosh on overclocking for the upcoming G80 based graphics cards. Supposedly this stems from the issues that several of the NVIDIA partners had with overheating on the 7900 GT’s that were clocked higher than reference.

However, I am not sure how much stock you can put in this report, the story goes on to say overclocking of the 7950 GX2 wasn’t allowed and I happen to be the proud owner of an XFX 7950 GX2 XXX that is overclocked. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun