Two Live Benchers Tonight – MIAHALLEN and Bobnova

Yep, that’s right folks. Not one, but two of our members are benching sub-zero live tonight.

Starting first, we have world class overclocker and GOOC champion MIAHALLEN working with some brand-spanking new hardware and getting it nice and cold with liquid nitrogen. He’s starting at 6:00 PM EST. Here’s the skinny:

• Mobo: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 (ES)
• CPU: Xeon X5677 (ES) quad core
• GPU: MSI nVidia GTX 480
• Ram: 6GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 CL8
• Cooling: LN2 on CPU & GPU, water on motherboard
• Focus: wPrime, AM3, 01, 03, and 05
• https://www.overclockers.com/overclockers-live-stage1/
• Time: 6:00 PM – Midnight EST

Up next, we have Bobnova from our own benching team. He’s working on getting some points with 2D benches. The session will start starting at 8:00 PM EST and go until the dry ice runs out.

• Mobo: Asus P5Q Pro
• CPU: Core 2 Duo e4500 (retail)
• GPU: Asus 4890 TOP
• Ram: Crucial Ballistix 2x1gb
• Cooling: CPU on dry ice, NB on air w/piped dry ice fumes.
• Focus: wPrime, SuperPi, PiFast, CPUz. May do 3dmark01 if i have extra dry ice.
• https://www.overclockers.com/overclockers-live-stage2/
• Time: ~8:00 PM EST till the dice runs out (3:00 AM’ish).

Hope you can stop by and root these fine gentlemen on!!!

–Jeremy Vaughan (hokiealumnus)