Posts Tagged ‘overclocking’

I have been overclocking and benchmarking computer hardware for quite a few years. However, Once I joined the realm of competative benchmarking about 2 years ago, things changed a lot. One thing that I have found to be essential in a proper benching table. Today, I’m looking at the new and improved benching table built by DIMASTECH in Italy. Does it have what it takes to replace my long time benching table build by Navig? Read on…

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With the release of Intel’s Core i3/i5 with on-chip integrated graphics, tons of low-cost H55 motherboards have been popping up. MSI’s mid-range H55 board, priced around $110, is the H55M-ED5. If you’ve been keeping up with H55 performance numbers, you know that people are getting huge overclocks on mATX boards. Although MSI sent me this board for HTPC testing (as Intel’s GMA HD IGP was intended), I also decided to test the limits of the ED55 and see just how much performance I could squeeze out of it.

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Madshrimps.be heads to CeBIT 2010 and brings us a slew of information on hot new products.

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We here at team OC Forums are taking up arms to knock some heads together and gain a position on the front page of the teams ranking on HWBot.

Currently we are in 22nd position, and 892 points away from 20th. This sounds like a wide gap, but when you consider the resources we have it’s really quite attainable.

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Updated 2/26/10 – So many users are searching around the net these days, looking for advice on how to overclock their new systems, but don’t know where to start. I decided a good how-to guide was in order to help you all out.

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I’d like to welcome our two newest Benching Team members, Bobnova and Khemikal!

Both of these guys have been working on joining the team for a little while now, and I’m happy to say they’ve made it in. They’re both long time O/C members, and we’re all looking forward to benching with them for a long time to come.

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Forum Wars is an online, team-based overclocking/benchmarking competition hosted by The Raptor Pit. Basically, each team is divided up into classes, based on hardware limitations. Classes compete against each other, and basically the team with the most winning classes wins the wars. There’s quite a bit of strategy involved in class placement, and we’ve got some guys on our team that are great at that. OC Forums is on quite an impressive winning streak, which we’d like to keep going.

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Gigabyte, as we all know, was one of the first motherboard manufacturers to roll out a solid implementation of USB 3 and SATA 3 in their products. In fact, Gigabyte now has an “A” option for most of their products. But since the devices capable of utilizing these higher speeds are still out of my reach, USB 3 and SATA 3 testing will be included in part 2 of this review. This part will focus on something I’m more concerned with anyway, and that’s overclocking performance.

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