Moocow Live Benching

A few people from our Benching Team decided to get together and freeze their hardware under liquid nitrogen this weekend. A forum thread has already been setup with a Live Stream feed so you can watch all the benching fun

Unfortunately, this event is cancelled due to Airgas’ needing the liquid nitrogen for a medical facility

I recently received a couple treats from Gigabyte Japan, namely a pair of new Radeon HD 5870 Super Overclock or “SOC” edition video cards. These cards feature a “binned” GPU, a custom PCB with tons of high-end features, and a custom air cooler. They also come with a factory rating of 950MHz for the GPU and 1250MHz for the GDDR5 memory, a significant boost over the 850/1200MHz speed of the reference cards. I took this beast of a card, and as you might expect, I put it through its paces with a buffet of benchmarks to find the absolute limits of performance.