Tom's OC Competition: Mid-day Pics

By Barry Gerber, Tuan An Nguyen
published

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.

Barry Gerber
17 Comments Comment from the forums
  • 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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