ABIT: Overclocking with Crotale

ABIT had invited the overclocker champ Crotale to their show where he displayed some extreme cooling using this behemoth of a phase change unit.


When powering on the system the crowd had to wait and watch the temperature until the system reached -100°C.


During the event Crotale showed how to do overclocking by various BIOS settings and the uGuru software. He also explained terms like multiplier, FSB and memory divider.


For demonstration SuperPi was run, first at default clocks which took like 37 seconds. After some overclocking with steps and reboots in between the final score was less than 22 seconds. This was very easy for people to grasp the effects of overclocking, and even more impressive for people who tried to get good SuperPi 1M results on their own computer before.


The final overclocking score of the show was 6.2 GHz. Very nice.

The first day when I was walking by with spin9 from OverclockZone in Thailand he pointed at Crotale's rig which was standing completely alone in a corner, easy to reach without being watched and joked that someone could steal the CPU and memory from it.
Two days later when I visited ABIT again I was told that someone stole Crotale's hand-picked super overclocking DDR2 memory - and he stole only one module. Looks like a computer expert got it. SHAME ON YOU!

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Continue to Day 3 here.