Droid draggin’? Apps crawlin’? Android creepin’? Then maybe you should overclock your Droid to 1.1GHz, like this guy! But really no, don’t.
7.08GHz. That’s the record-shattering speed an AMD Phenom II processor was overclocked to using a massive amount of liquid helium. You can watch the process in this documentary video set to a kickass soundtrack. [Crunchgear]
This sounds like it’s going to be pretty hardcore: The Overclocker Magazine has somehow managed to convince all the top PC component manufacturers to compete against each other and the world’s best overclockers to see who really does have the best equipment. It sounds like they should have a steel cage on standby…
How nerdy are you? Oh really? Yea rly? Corsair’s Cooling Ice Series T30 “world’s first” sub-ambient PC memory cooler gives you 20 degrees of breathing room for overclocking your memory to make your computer more fasterer. [Fareastgizmos via Ubergizmo]
Ceramic isn’t just for pottery. It’s used in military armour to stop bullets and the Space Shuttle to thwart heat. Now, Asus is reintroducing the material in its sci-fi-tastic Marine Cool motherboard.
From AMD’s upcoming chip roadmaps we know the Phenom II is due out early next year, and it’s AMD’s second 45nm chip, but in a recent show and tell session AMD demonstrated the “overhead” built into the chip by overclocking one to a crazy 5GHz. It did take a special CO2 sublimation cooling unit that carries the danger of suffocating you if you use it in a small room, but what the hey. With a liquid nitrogen cooling system the chip was easily pushed way over 5 gigs. You may think “yeah, I could overclock anything with that stuff!” but it should be noted that with fairly normal high-end air-cooling the chips could get up to 4GHz. It’ll be interesting to watch AMD’s battle with Intel’s i7 play out. [PCPerspective]
Onwards and upwards in the overclockers’ heatsink game: The crazed coolant doctors at Thermaltake are now shipping what they’re claiming is the first case to feature a DC-inverter micro refrigeration system onboard, which goes beyond conventional liquid-cooled setups by using the same type of compressor/condenser/coolant system found in a refrigerator or air conditioner into your PC case.
