Category Archives: Overclocking

2012 ASRock Global OC Competition : With Total Prize Up To USD13, 000!

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TAIPEI, Taiwan, January 13, 2012 — The global leading motherboard brand ASRock announced today to organize 2012 Global OC Competition with Futuremark, the world’s top benchmarking software company. The participants will be competing for highest 3DMark 11 score which is submitted to 3DMark.com using the benchmark’s performance preset.

The contest starts from January 16, runs until February 12, and is open to all overclockers with ASRock brand motherboards and Intel® Sandy Bridge and Sandy Bridge-E CPUs. The total prize is worth up to 13,000 dollars and the final champion of Sandy Bridge-E event will be awarded with top prize of 3,000 dollars value. The grand prize makes it one of the largest online OC tournaments in recent years and it is expected to arouse an agitation among global overclockers.

ASRock collaborated with Futuremark and organized the Global OC Competition by involving several leading brands in the PC component industry such as Intel, Kingston, Cooler Master, Sparkle and ROCCAT. ASRock aims to pull more overclockers to experience the extreme performance of ASRock X79 series through the Global OC Competition.

【ASRock kicked off the Global OC COMPETITION with all partners】

ASRock first launched Overclock King X79 series in the end of last year and soon received the positive feedback worldwide and countless major awards from global leading IT media. To name a few, X79 Extreme9 won the Best Buy Award from Australian PC User Magazine, Must Have Award from British website KitGuru and Editor’s Choice Award from British website Eteknix; X79 Extreme4-M won the Great Hardware Award from U.S. IT web Pureoverclock and X79 Extreme4 won the Best Value Award from Australian website Tweaktown, etc. In 2012, ASRock launched more X79 products, such as Fatal1ty X79 Professional and X79 Extreme6/GB to enrich the portfolio of X79 product line.

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ASUS Rampage IV Extreme: Hidden feature unveiled for HD7970

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A few hours ago, Shamino posted a thread at kingpincooling forum.
ASUS R&D have somehow figured out a way to publish voltage modifications for graphics card; these include control VGA loadline, switching frequency, OverCurrent Protection and core voltage.

Control Load Line, Switching Freq, OCP, Voltage of 7970 with R4E
First solder red and black headers to VGA card:

The headers will be later on plug into MB.

Steps

Do Not plug in the header before boot.
After Boot and go into OS, plug in header
Open Digipower CNTRL (install from CD)

you can set load line, Switching Freq, OCP, it will be set with the CPU’s vcore, so suggest set LL Extreme, Switching Freq 500 to 800, disable OCP (this will also be used for the VGA Vcore)
If you also wanna adjust vcore of VGA, u can open up Turbo V and adjust the CPU Vcore together with the VGA vcore. VGA vcore will be 100mv lesser than what you set on the CPU. For eg, 1.40 will give 1.30 on VGA.
After adjust and ready to bench remove header. Settings hould be kept even at reset unless you shutdown.

Do not have the header plugged in at boot as it will make the system stop booting.
Enjoy.

ASUS ROG X79 Motherboard: Rampage IV Extreme Features Talk About

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ASUS Rampage IV Extreme

Another masterpiece born from Shamino’s hands, this should be best motherboard cater for extreme overclockers up to date, why? Let’s go through of my 3 short pages write-up and you will know why and who are the target users with all features that come with this ROG.

VGA Hot-Wire

Have you ever experience with graphics card voltage modification before? Well, if you do, you gonna love this feature. In the past, we used to solder variable resistor to graphics card in order to overclock further, even on watercooling it does scale pretty satisfiable . Ever since GTX 200 series generation, manufacturer starting to implement voltage controller on graphics card where by voltage can be controlled by software, it is pretty convenient and without voiding warranty. Nevertheless, physical vmod still necessary for extreme overclocking, eg prevent OCP kick in.

With VGA Hot-wire, a built-in variable resistor control through motherboard BIOS, voltage increment in offset basis.
On Rampage IV Extreme, it has 2 sets of VGA Hot-wire, 6pins header per set, and each set for single graphics card.

Each set consists of :-

  • Core voltage(vGPU)
  • Memory voltage(vMem)
  • PLL voltage(vPLL)

Voltage modification point(feedback or Vsense loop) goes to RED header while voltage measurement goes to BLACK header.

CAUTION: GROUND IS NOT NEEDED HERE, DO NOT CONNECT GROUND TO BLACK HEADER

In order to avoid confusion during extreme overclocking session, ASUS bundled with labeling sticker.

Note:
To cater all graphics card, voltage increment are on offset basic.
- Do check voltage every time and adjust step by step
- Big jump in voltage when increase from +96 to +97.
- Core Voltage Boost are made available just in case, DO NOT ENABLE, unless +222 is not enough for you.
- Voltage measurement read up to 3.30v, which is pretty much adequate, not to mention we can hardly use up to 2.0v.

Tip:
As I have mentioned it is control in offset basic, which mean, you can control up to 6 graphics card, assume core voltage vmodded only for each card, or 3 cards with both Core voltage and Memory voltage vmodded.

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|Review| Patriot Viper Xtreme Division 2 DDR3-2133Mhz CL9 2x2GB

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Introduction

Intel launch 2nd generation Intel Core processor early in the year, in order to provide end user better experience of new platform, every memory vendors annouce their new memory product line for new processors at the same time. While for Patriot Memory, they have their Viper Extreme Division 2 for Intel Sandy Bridge processor. Today, we are looking at the model PXD34G2133ELK, rated at 2133MHz speed, 9-11-9-27 latency, most importantly, it equips with sleek design heatspreader, an extruded aluminum shield build around a copper core to provide improved cooling.

Patriot’s Viper Xtreme Series, Division 2 Edition memory kits are designed for Intel’s? 2nd Generation Core?; processors. Engineered for PC Gamers and enthusiasts the Viper Xtreme Division 2′s utilize a custom designed heatshield solution with an outer shield built around a copper core to provide enhanced cooling. Each module has 6 grams of copper at its core paired with extruded aircraft-grade aluminum outer shield. Built from only using the highest quality pre-sorted IC’s available, they are rigorously tested and validated on the Intel? 6 Series platform to achieve maximum performance and stability. These modules are engineered to reach PC3-17000 (2133MHz) at 9-11-9-27 timings and are available 4GB (2 x 2GB) kits. Each module is 100% hand-tested to quality assurance and is backed by a full-lifetime warranty and industry leading customer service.

Specification

  • Extreme Performance PC3-17000 (2133MHz)
  • Enhanced Latency (9-11-9-27)
  • Voltage: 1.65V
  • XMP Ready
  • Equipped with an extruded aluminum shield build around a copper core to provide improved cooling
  • 100% Tested and Verified
  • RoHS Compliant
  • Tested on Intel P67 platform

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Gear up and be prepared

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One of our forum member, louislkw, has decided to hype this boring overclocking scene in Malaysia, he has liaise with ASRock and GSkill to organize an online overclocking competition.
His intention is to PROMOTE the overclocking community in Malaysia and DEVELOP the interest and DISCOVER the fun in overclocking.

It will be sandy bridge based overclocking competition with 2 benchmarks, SuperPi 32M and PCMark 7, both weighted equally in final score, starting from 26th Sept to 22nd Oct 2011. Most importantly, NO brands limitation on motherboard and memory!

Check out here for more details!

|Comparison| Twin Frozr II vs. DirectCU II

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The famous DirectCU and Twin Frozr graphics card cooling solution from ASUS and MSI are well known for being superior compared to reference heatsink. Now how about comparing both side by side? Placing them on the same graphics card, under the same environment, etc. Which of them yield better performance? Lower noise? What do you think?

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|Review| The Limited Edition, The One of Thousand

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No surprise that ASUS Mars II will be a heat monster and king of power hungry graphics card. ASUS ROG R&D Team must have putting extremely lot of effort in designing this masterpiece, squeezing two GTX580 core in single PCB with twice number of phase power of GTX590 graphics card. No deny that the GPU has reached high mark on temperature reading, however, by replacing stock thermal paste with 3rd party thermal paste and place them in proper ventilated casing will definitely helps, nevertheless, this graphics card is rather more of a collectible item, only 1000 units will be made in the world, so GRAB IT BEFORE TOO LATE!

- coolice


ASUS Mars II received the Editor’s Choice Award from OCDrift.com

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|Review| MSI R6990 4GB DDR5

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There’s no doubt that the MSI R6990 is the fastest and the most powerful ATI graphics card ever produced by MSI and it really does deliver what it should deliver. Those in intense need of graphics performance should really consider this graphics card seriously, be it intense gaming session or other graphics needs, it can do the job impressively. To obtain this powerful card, the price u need to pay for a MSI flagship graphics card is quite expensive. Well, u get what you pay. However, i would like to point out that the cooling system of this graphics card is not sufficient. At default speed and stock voltage, the load temperature (when stressing) reached 82 degree. That’s kinda on the high side to me. Nevertheless, do take note that during stressing, the graphics card loading at 100% operation. Now i believe there’s very little game could push this card to the max. Overall, it’s a great card minus the temperature thingy.

- uzer85


MSI R6990 received gold award from OCDrift.com

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|Review| MSI GTX580 Lightning Xtreme Edition

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MSI graphic cards are known to be good among overclockers especially the Lightning Edition. Lightning Edition is top of the line of each product line.
The Lightning edition is undoubtedly good and this review is about GTX580 Lightning Xtreme Edition which i believe the improved version of GTX580 Lightning, better under extreme condition, perhaps? But too bad this review was done just on air.

MSI GTX580 Lightning XE received gold award from OCDrift.com

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|Review| Corsair’s Dominator® GT 2133 CL9

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There’s a lot to like about Corsair’s Dominator GT 2133MHz kit. The best part would be the specifications, it’s just superb. Cranking up the clocks and performance is pretty handy. The heatsink is top notch and the red & black colour-scheme added extra flavor to the kit.

Read full review here

Corsair’s Dominator GT received the Silver Award from OCDrift.com