Stummerwinter at Cebit - 2600K on LN2

I.M.O.G. · Mar 7, 2011

Wouldn't water be plenty to run a 2600K at 5650Mhz?

He mentions he normally would run a single stage, but due to space is using LN2... It would make more sense to me if it was a gimmick, because let's face it, liquid nitrogen just looks cooler.

Just making sure my impressions are accurate for the 2600K, and subzero isn't really helping. Or is it helping for top end clocks?

Here's the video where he talks about it:

Audioaficionado · Mar 7, 2011

I've heard that SB has a serious cold bug and there's not any advantage to running excessively cold, but yeah, LN2 looks way cooler (no pun intended).

BTW how did you get that you tube embedding to work?

ghost_recon88 · Mar 7, 2011

I saw a guy running his 2600K at 5.9GHz for 3Ds on LN2, so maybe there is something to it.

I.M.O.G. · Mar 7, 2011

Audioaficionado said:
I've heard that SB has a serious cold bug and there's not any advantage to running excessively cold, but yeah, LN2 looks way cooler (no pun intended).

BTW how did you get that you tube embedding to work?

There is a bbcode for it, its done like this:

[yvid]unique ID for youtube video[/yvid]

The unique ID for the video you want to embed is the random string of characters in the URL for the video, or if you look at the embed code on the youtube site, its the part that comes after youtube.com/embed/*numbers and letters here*

m0r7if3r · Mar 7, 2011

Yea, if you saw his table there wasn't room for a single stage, and since they needed the nitro anyways for the 580 I guess they just decided to hold the chip around -20C or so with nitro

Wega! · Mar 7, 2011

Ot: Does any of you guys know the interviewer? M. Beier....

m0r7if3r · Mar 7, 2011

Wega! said:
Ot: Does any of you guys know the interviewer? M. Beier....

Say what?

I.M.O.G. · Mar 7, 2011

I don't know that guy, but I hung out with trouffman at CES this year. Overclocking-tv is a non profit operation, and he's a real legit guy... Cool to talk with, just likes the OC community.

Seebs · Mar 7, 2011

Bit off topic here...

I just went to the OC-TV site and watched a couple vids from the MOA 2011 event.... I always pictured Gautam to be this battered older guy that was showing the signs of endless nights fiddling with OSs and stuff... Turns out he's just a kid! :shock:

sno.lcn · Mar 7, 2011

I.M.O.G. said:
Wouldn't water be plenty to run a 2600K at 5650Mhz?

He mentions he normally would run a single stage, but due to space is using LN2... It would make more sense to me if it was a gimmick, because let's face it, liquid nitrogen just looks cooler.

Just making sure my impressions are accurate for the 2600K, and subzero isn't really helping. Or is it helping for top end clocks?

Here's the video where he talks about it:

Cold can help prolong the life of the CPU when you're running high clocks and voltages.

Wega! said:
Ot: Does any of you guys know the interviewer? M. Beier....

Yeah, he's a very cool guy in person :thup:

MattNo5ss · Mar 7, 2011

The guy with the best CPU-Z validation with a 2600K used LN2, but he said that the sweet spot for his chip was -40C. So it seems that some cold helps SB up to a point, then any colder may prolong life as mentioned above.

http://hwbot.org/community/submission/2134262_suicidephoenix_cpu_z_core_i7_2600k_5961.14_mhz

I.M.O.G. · Mar 7, 2011

Thanks for the input guys.

xXSebaSXx said:
Bit off topic here...

I just went to the OC-TV site and watched a couple vids from the MOA 2011 event.... I always pictured Gautam to be this battered older guy that was showing the signs of endless nights fiddling with OSs and stuff... Turns out he's just a kid!

Probably an older kid than you would guess by looking at him. He's got a baby face a little bit.

Did you see me there? I was the bald guy being quiet and trying not to interrupt near gautam and Mark. Not sure if I was in the videos or not.

Seebs · Mar 7, 2011

I.M.O.G. said:
Thanks for the input guys.

Probably an older kid than you would guess by looking at him. He's got a baby face a little bit.

Did you see me there? I was the bald guy being quiet and trying not to interrupt near gautam and Mark. Not sure if I was in the videos or not.

Did not see your bald head shine its way onto any of the videos they have on the site... I guess they didn't want to blind the viewers with the glare emanating from the "dome".... :rofl:

I.M.O.G. · Mar 7, 2011

Suppose that makes sense. It was an overclocking event after all, not a beauty pageant.

Audioaficionado · Mar 7, 2011

If you had your snake necktie on, I becha you would have made a few vids

Wega! · Mar 7, 2011

m0r7if3r said:
Say what?

I was just asking if anyone knew the blond guy that is behind the mic in that video. He's Danish and I've seen him on the Danish HW forums. He is just confusing me sometimes, and I wasnt sure if he was a good guy or not. But it seams like he should be alright

I.M.O.G. said:
I don't know that guy, but I hung out with trouffman at CES this year. Overclocking-tv is a non profit operation, and he's a real legit guy... Cool to talk with, just likes the OC community.

Ok, thanks for the feedback and sorry for ot in your thread.

sno.lcn said:
Yeah, he's a very cool guy in person

Thanks

ChanceCoats123 · Mar 7, 2011

My assumption would be that they [the overclockers using ln2 on SB] just don't pour very often, or pour very little when they do. You've got to remember that ln2 has the ability to take pot to -190*C. Doesn't mean it automatically goes there.

El<(')>Maxi · Mar 9, 2011

sb does prefer cold, just not very much. Anywhere between -25 and -68 runs exactly the same on my rig.

Brolloks · Mar 9, 2011

So a mid range SS should be plenty then Mark?

El<(')>Maxi · Mar 9, 2011

Yep. I'm hunting a chip like suicide has, looking like it won't be easy to find.

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