Key features
System specs
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Q807
- Motherboard
- EVGA 790i Ultra (tested on P04)
- RAM
- OCZ Platinum 1600 7-7-7-20 @ ~1000 MHz 8-7-7-24 2T
- GPU
- 2x Palit 9600GT (SLI)
- GPU
- 9600GSO 384 MB (SLI)
- GPU
- 9600GSO 768 MB Sonic (SLI)
- Storage
- 2x WD Raptor 74 GB 16 MB RAID0
- PSU
- PC Power & Cooling 750 W Crossfire Edition
- OS
- Windows XP Pro
Performed mods
vmods on 9600GTs, DICE cooling


32 Comments on DICE BOX - cardboard box FTW !
A dry-ice cooler won't stay cool forever. Are you planning to jump away from COD4 to add some more dry ice?
This must be a joke.
Altho you may drive a car strictly from point a to b, alot of people take the same daily driver to the track on weekends. Think of this guy as the casual air to water cooled, OCing of a system, as reliability is still needed for the daily drives.
Now in his (goats) case, think of it more as trailering your car to the track, running super fast, Taking the money and the girls with it home on a trailer. No need for stability, as most likely, this isnt his daily driver!
I hope this helps you understand what and why he does this.
I for one love it! GREAT WORK!!!!!!
I myself have the money but no girls. Maybe I need some dry ice.
There is potential if in the right situation to even get paid to do this for a full time gig!
The girls...hopefully they come too, but this is all really a subject for a different thread.
Sorry for the mini hijack goat!
No joke either
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I don't know how much I am able to say but I will say that I just removed a sig that said testing 9600GSO 384MB (SLI) and 9600GSO 768MB Sonics (SLI) and of course 9600GTs (512MB) (SLI) and that I already killed a 9600GSO 768MB Sonic withing 10 minutes of taking it out of the box :D
I don't get it. Why would a company pay you/give you stuff to overclock and ruin? Hell, why don't I put a dry ice hopper on my CPU, NB, SB, both GPUs, and memory? Then they will give me stuff.
That is really retarded. How hard is it to throw a dry ice hopper on your CPU and zip-tie a few fans here and there and turn up the clock rates as high as you can take them before you fail to post or get a blue screen? Why would these companies give out stuff to hacks when they could do it within their own company?
Again, start another thread please, and keep this out of his mod thread!
I wouldn't mind you asking the people who support me bu I doubt anyone would dignify your rudeness with a response
Lastly IDK what "Your memory speed/timings don't match your description -- neither does the CPU speed. Still in the pursuit?" are you asking do I tweak my settings to get better scores? If so then yes I tweak for better/optimal results...
I won't let this turn into a pissing contest so unless yo uhave something constructive for me or a question I will not respond to you as (unless post count meter is screwy ) the only posts you have made have been attacking me/ TRYING to take me down a peg
P.S.
This really wasn't a question, but rather a command for those to stupid to realize it :) .
I will not post in this mod gallery again unless asked to.
One last thing: What I was trying to ask was why your CPU-Z submitted information had a different CPU clock, memory clock, and memory latencies than what you indicated in your description and had screen shots of. I was wondering if it was due to instability issues that your clocks weren't as high as expected (crashed midcourse of testing before submitting information to CPU-Z with the slightly higher clocks?).
I voted 4/10 because:
wheres the case?
User withdrew this vote on: Jul 5 2008 02:21
Wow, 5.6GHz is a wicked overclock!!
Case ??? 0/10
Overlock, yeee! 10/10
Grat
J/k it's no LED for Fail hahaha
Mine is on the table to these days, I give you an 8 for your setup. You need water or more blocks on that mo-fo lol
From going out and reading lots of reviews, finding out what parts work better than others, finding out if those parts work as well with what you got. There is a lot of time that does go into these things. A lot of if isn't going to newegg and just buying the best of the best.
I think I have about 20 hours of just ocing in the last week alone. It takes time to find that really high benchmark score. There are a lot of things that can be moved up and down. Sometimes turning one thing down will let you turn another thing up a little bit, and then you have a better score. Sometimes that hurts your scores and you have to mix it up even more. Plus you can burn things up very fast by doing them.
You have to take lots of notes, screen shots, and remembering settings that will almost drive you nuts if you forget.
In the end it's almost a game to itself. I'm proud of my last runs with all stock cooling. I have my system down at this time were if I pump up one thing by 1Mhz it will lock. It took a long time to find those settings. Not everyone likes to do that, and some people will never even take the time to figure out why someone would like something like that.
Yes, he does fill that pot up for COD4 if he doesn't switch back to normal cooling lol
Which can be a good thing so you don't smash your monitor when yesterdays settings don't want to work anymore.
blah!!! what the hell? it's suppose to be a case mod not a nitrogen mod...oh well!
Nice overclocks, but I fail to see anything interesting past that.
10 from me for you having to read through this disgraceful crap.
Great O.C. Some people just cant see the beauty of a computer anymore. Don't you guys remember way back when? Just looking at the tracers and caps, wondering where each one goes.
Maybe I am wrong but doesn't anyone still get that rush opening up a new motherboard or graphics card...............Just stare at it for a while. Come on, some of you still have to love the P.C. for the sum of it's parts. I know it's cool to hide all your wires, paint job, black lights and led's I do it to. But I still like to stare inside my old "Fender Bass man Tweed" amp and see the hand done point to point wiring. I think it's beautiful.
Just my two cents.
5 for the cooling setup... no case, modded or not!
Cardboard FTL, honestly there's alot better ways to go about it than cardboard if you got the resources for dry ice and/or liquid nitrogen