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Liquid Nitrogen OC and aftermath

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October 2, 2014 6:09:23 AM

Hello,

Today I read something about a guy called Elmor from SweClockers.com overclocking a gtx 980 to run @2.2 GHz and his 5960x to 5.58GHz using liquid nitrogen, now i did some research and I learned that Liquid nitrogen is only used for benchmarking and stuff and can't be used for long term.

so my question is, will that cpu and gpu be able to run on a watercooled system afterwards? would they be stable? would it work in general.. like leaving the system on for long periods of time and ect.

Cause I was thinking of getting my own cpu and gpu and ram overclocked to high clocks (same specs as his system: 5960x, gtx 980 2-way sli and g.skill ddr4) in the above case, would I be able to achieve a 5GHz stable on my cpu and maybe 1.5GHz on the gpu?)
this is for a system to work long hours every day not for setting benchmarks, just curios :) 

Thank you :) 

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October 2, 2014 8:15:36 AM

You will have to lower your overclock back to something normal for a water cooled setup. Your not gonna gain anything by overclocking with nitrogen they just do that to get high scores when they benchmark.
October 2, 2014 10:33:55 AM

badincite said:
You will have to lower your overclock back to something normal for a water cooled setup. Your not gonna gain anything by overclocking with nitrogen they just do that to get high scores when they benchmark.


ah interesting, didnt know you can actually lower clock speed XD

thanks for the reply friend :) 
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October 2, 2014 10:39:32 AM

Admiral Teddy said:
Hello,

Today I read something about a guy called Elmor from SweClockers.com overclocking a gtx 980 to run @2.2 GHz and his 5960x to 5.58GHz using liquid nitrogen, now i did some research and I learned that Liquid nitrogen is only used for benchmarking and stuff and can't be used for long term.

so my question is, will that cpu and gpu be able to run on a watercooled system afterwards? would they be stable? would it work in general.. like leaving the system on for long periods of time and ect.

Cause I was thinking of getting my own cpu and gpu and ram overclocked to high clocks (same specs as his system: 5960x, gtx 980 2-way sli and g.skill ddr4) in the above case, would I be able to achieve a 5GHz stable on my cpu and maybe 1.5GHz on the gpu?)
this is for a system to work long hours every day not for setting benchmarks, just curios :) 

Thank you :) 


Have you looked at any of the pictures of a liquid nitrogen overclocking event? Condensation is the biggest problem. You can easily get liquid water into areas that are not intended to get wet.
October 2, 2014 11:08:31 AM

@kanewolf
yeah I've seen those and as I said I did do some research so I know the good and bad stuff about it, I was just curious about what happens after the OC and would the chip be useable at those clock speeds and ect.
thanks for the reply :) 
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October 3, 2014 5:12:10 AM

The usability and life of the chip is greatly decresed when it sees voltages way above what its designed to. Sometimes the chips won't work at all after, sometimes they work but not for long, sometime it will continue work forever. Depends on how far they oc and how long tests are run for etc.
a c 239 K Overclocking
October 3, 2014 6:14:11 AM

@ Admiral Teddy, Welcome to Tom's!

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so my question is, will that cpu and gpu be able to run on a watercooled system afterwards? would they be stable? would it work in general.. like leaving the system on for long periods of time and ect.


Possibly but there are no guarantees when it comes to the component aftermath of that type of overclocking.

Almost every high record reaching overclocker using LN2 considers the CPU and GPU expendable, they have to use damaging voltages to reach those records and many CPUs after the fact or either crippled or burnt out.

It is possible to run high overclocks daily as I run my i7-3770K at 5ghz 24/7 but I run cooling that allows me to do it, not just regular air or water cooling, but chilled water cooling.

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Cause I was thinking of getting my own cpu and gpu and ram overclocked to high clocks (same specs as his system: 5960x, gtx 980 2-way sli and g.skill ddr4) in the above case, would I be able to achieve a 5GHz stable on my cpu and maybe 1.5GHz on the gpu?)
this is for a system to work long hours every day not for setting benchmarks, just curios


You can accomplish amazing results overclocking, but you first need to know what you are doing and how to go about doing it!

Just the fact you're asking these questions prove that you are legitimately curious, but you seriously need to study into this further before you attempt and fail, at a high cost of possible hardware loss.

Of course if you are rolling in money with plenty to sacrifice on computer parts in your learning, then it really matters not because you're in the same class as those that sacrifice the components for high record reaching overclocks.

There's a big difference between a 24/7 dependable system and a shoot for the stars high claims house of cards setup, that can come crashing down at any instant.



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