Tom's OC Competition: Mid-day Pics
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Barry Gerber, Tuan An Nguyen
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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.
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