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I have decided to embark upon what will most likely be a lengthy but carefully planned cascade build. This will become my primary benching and reviewing cascade to replace my underpowered but otherwise ideal Baby cascade. I am aiming at -95C loaded temperatures, cold enough to consistently bench at 5200MHz and higher but not cold enough to cold bug the processors I’ll be using. This is simply the planning stage, there will likely be another post detailing the construction, and a last post detailing initial results.

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When benching there are two things you can adjust, voltages and temperatures. Increasing voltages will work to an extent but you will typically hit a wall at some point after which only dropping the temperatures will increase the frequency you can run your components at. Northbridges on Intel motherboards are very finicky chips, they will “wall” at the oddest frequencies, they will cold bug at seemingly random temperatures, but most of all they are the major bottleneck with current chips. To give you an example, my E8400 on my P35 will hit a solid 560+FSB but it walls at 540FSB on the X38. To counter-act this, I have fabricated a simple dry ice container in hopes of cracking 540FSB.

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Title says it all. I decided to pull out the meek 8400GS for a little fun along while competing in a little competitive event over at XtremeSystems. I originally purchased this card for when I’m benching to reduce the load on my powersupply in hopes of pulling a few more MHz out of the processor. I however just couldn’t resist overclocking this card so in the original review I managed to pull 600MHz out of the core and 415MHz out of the memory. Considering the stock clocks of 459MHz on the core and 400MHz on the memory, it overclocked moderately well for a $30 card.

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Digging through my feeds I found this hilarious article by Crunchgear essentially describing how to take advantage of a local colleges’ student discount that sold OS X Tiger for $40/license and most likely will be selling OS X Leopard for $40/license also. What they did very wrong was 1)mention splitting a single license amongst 2 users which is piracy and 2)suggested non-college individuals to use college students to purchase these academic licenses for them. After reading the article I am questioning if the Crunchgear writer even went to college and if he even thought about what he wrote before he hit Publish. So after reading the comments and laughing at the number of readers saying they are unsubscribing (it’s ok to laugh at their blunder, I cleared it with TBS) I decided to show you a slightly more legal way to go about getting your copy of OS X Leopard.

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