Dino ‘AKA’ Dinos22 from Team.AU Does Some 3DMark Damage

Forgot to post this earlier, but last week Dino, stuck in what can only be described as an epic Groundhog Day time loop, took the 3DMark03 WR three times in a row using the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC motherboard. Not content to stop there, he also took the 3DMark05 WR (on 4x 7970s) and the 3DMark06 WR (also using 4x 7970s) both using the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC. Not sure if he saw his own shadow or not, but congrats on the records Dino!

Edit...(8/29)

Seems Dino is still stuck in that loop. He just upped the 3DMark03 to 292890 and 54927 on the 3DMark06. 

Mike Moen from Intel’s Performance Team talks overclocking!

Hi guys, I wanted to share a video with you produced by OCTV and HWBOT during the recent Computex 2013 tech show in Taiwan. Pieter from HWBOT.ORG, leading enthusiast/overclockers website, did an interview with a really interesting guy that works for Intel. His name is Mike Moen and he’s the lead engineer for high end and enthusiast platforms. In laymen’s terms, a geek supremo that translates what overclockers are about into language platform architects can understand and implement into design.

One thing I found really interesting is when Mike said “we don’t want logic to be the limiter, we want physics to be that natural limiter”. In other words, Intel is always looking out to remove any possible limitation that the platform itself could produce on overclocking and open it up as much as possible so that the limits in overclockers are literally the limits of silicone and what is physically possible with any piece of silicone. He even talks about specific examples of where they’ve affected the change in logic to make sure overclockers are not left out such as PLL override option back in Sandy Bridge days or pushing the new boundaries with memory overclocking on Haswell platform. Very cool stuff, check out the full interview:

 

ROBBO2 from Australia breaks new FM2 SuperPi records in GIGABYTE competition!

GIGABYTE’s “Pi is Returned” is really hitting a stride at the moment with records falling daily it seems. This time it’s Robbo2 from Australia leading the charge.

Australians are never far away when there’s a SuperPi competition somewhere. It’s nice to see a relative newcommer to the world of extreme OC really show off some decent skill and top the charts so far. Robbo managed to set new FM2 category world records in both 1M and 32M SuperPi. I’ve met Robbo2 at a recent OCAU Extreme OC workshop and it’s great to see OCAU guys jumping the hurdle and really giving LN2 a serious go with some decent hardware. Motherboard used was the GIGABYTE F2A85X-UP4 and an AMD A10-6800K CPU clocked past 7.2GHz (32M SuperPi) and 7.3GHz(for 1M SuperPi).

Awesome stuff there, keep at it!

For those of you that would like to check out this competition you can follow all the action on HWBOT.ORG.