Tom's OC Competition: Mid-day Pics

Time to dump some of that cold stuff on the Intel Core 2 Duo 8600 processor.

Even high tech extreme overclockers have their favorite good luck charms.

The guys from Team IronMods ponder a problem with their motherboard. Each team received two complete PCs and were allowed to use either PCs components. If they fried a component, they were penalized 5% for each sizzling part.

Team 411 Overkill Extreme Overclocking (black shirts) and Team 5G (blue shirts) spent a lot of time preparing their hardware before chasing the benchmark scores Team OC Forums and Team IronMods had already posted.

Those 160 liter liquid nitrogen tanks in all their glory.

  • cangelini
    Who's that handsome guy in Picture 11? Oh wait...
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  • malveaux
    So how much did ya'll spend on the cooling to overclock a tiny bit more out of those chips that probably cost less than the cooling supplies? ;)

    Cheers,
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  • Annisman
    cangeliniWho's that handsome guy in Picture 11? Oh wait...
    ??? Does anybody else notice how full of himself this guy is? Youre a KID dude. I can't believe anybody would takes orders from this shmo.

    You work for a computer hardware website = automatic celacy.
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  • Annisman
    celibacy*
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  • bc4
    wow, seems like a waste of time. So was flipping through the slideshow... How about captions on the pics? And if the pic's posted aren't worth the 1/2 second it takes to load, make them load all at once so we can flip through all of them in less than 10 sec's.

    Well, enough complaining. I actually like articles about this stuff (seeing how far you can take a PC if you had unlimited resources and was bored) but was disappointed by the slideshow (havn't got to the article yet)
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  • gxsolace
    annisman??? Does anybody else notice how full of himself this guy is? Youre a KID dude. I can't believe anybody would takes orders from this shmo.You work for a computer hardware website = automatic celacy.
    You sir are a moron. How does working for a computer hardware website make one celibate? Are you just spewing nonsense out of yourself? And cangelini was clearly joking. Anyone can see that. And how do you know he's a "kid"?

    Clearly you're the one who needs to grow up.
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  • cangelini
    annisman??? Does anybody else notice how full of himself this guy is? Youre a KID dude. I can't believe anybody would takes orders from this shmo.You work for a computer hardware website = automatic celacy.
    LOL--we're having a good time, man =) Take it easy and have a good weekend.
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  • arkadi
    how about some videos? ;)
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  • bf2142-rules-ok
    Questions?.Picture 13. Is that 'entity' underneath the nehalem chip a stock item? Is it a new feature of core i7 to support the weight of extra cooling? Do you get a different coloured nose depending on which chip model no. you order? Can u breed them? Hav fun w/end one and all
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  • Anyway
    Am I the only one having problem with the page loading?It takes quite a few seconds per picture and it's usually really fast. :S
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