The championship

The clock ticked untiringly and so the time flew by. Shortly before two o'clock in the afternoon we were able to test bench our system at 4.8 GHz and -80°C for the first time. Like this we had a first reference point.

Now we had to look for the coldbug and coldboot. We found both pretty soon at -120°C respectively -100°C. Afterwards we did the next benchmark at 5.2 GHz.



Now we were looking for the cpus limits which we finally found after some testing at 5.305 GHz. This step behind us we optimized the RAM timings. Our Mushkins did 7-7-7-21 but after the benchmark with this timings the memory didn't work properly anymore. Even when we tried to boot the system at only -60° and with standard cpu seetings and standard memory timings we weren't able to run windows even nearly stable.

As we turned to the graphic cards shortly we recognized pretty soon that they didn't limit the system. As we highered the clock the system didn't scale. So the result was really down to the CPU.

The final score in 3DMark06 we reached was 30819 Point at 5.305 GHz. In the end this meant the fourth place behind the spanish, polish and swedish guys. They all had CPUs which were able to clock 5.4 GHz to 5.55 GHz.

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