May 2010 - Overclockers

Miahallen Live Benching

May 28, 2010 Brett Taylor 9

Miahallen did a live benching session for us, using liquid nitrogen.

Cheap Hardware, but at What Cost?

May 27, 2010 Matt Ring 22

On Tuesday, a 19-year old employee at Foxconn apparently jumped to his death at a factory operated by Foxconn. This is the ninth suicide this year at this complex of China factories. Do consumers even care?

Exploring RAID 0 on the SB750 Chipset

May 27, 2010 Joe Schibani, Jr. 0

AMD Phenom II x3 720 Black Edition overclocked to 3588 MHz with RAID 0 using the SB750.

Futuremark Adding 3DMark11 to its Arsenal

May 26, 2010 Joe Shields 7

The makers of the popular 3dMark benching software, Futuremark, have announced their newest version of its 3d benchmarking software, 3DMark11. This version will use a “native DX11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.” So guess what fellow benchers, we have another new game to play and this time we can flex the muscle of our DX11 cards!

Reinventing The ATI 5870

May 26, 2010 Jeremy Vaughan 5

The 5800 series GPUs have been out for a while. Manufacturers are now coming out with variations on the originals, but I thought it might be fun to take a step back and do a quick run-through of this generation of AMD/ATI’s top graphics cards.

Moocow Live Benching

May 25, 2010 Brett Taylor 0

Moocow did a live benching session for us, using dry ice.

Nvidia GTX465 Detailed

May 25, 2010 Jonathan Heroux 5

Nvidia is set to release its latest iteration of the Fermi architecture in early June. The new card, named GTX465, is a cut-down version of the GTX470 and features a total of 352 shader cores.

Old Computers: Vintage or Garbage?

May 24, 2010 David 13

It struck me, as I walked through the hall that contained 40 of these wonderfully restored and cared for bikes from 1927 to 1990, that we really don’t take the same care over computers. My father and I both have hobbies: mine is computers and his is motorbikes (of which he has three). Despite the almost fanatical way both hobbies are followed by thousands of people, old computers are rarely sexy…

Overclock Your Android Phone

May 21, 2010 Brett Taylor 12

Your cell phone is just a tiny computer, right? Just like it’s big brother on top or under your desk, you can overclock your Android based cell phone.

MIAHALLEN Reaches Top 10 on HWBOT

May 20, 2010 Matt Ring 7

Last night, one of the world’s best overclockers, our very own MIAHALLEN, hosted a live benching session. Despite some insulation and condensation issues with his Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 motherboard, he still managed to crack the top 10 on hwbot.org!