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How To: Voltage Mod Your Sapphire HD3850

There comes a time when your need for speed will outstrip your computers ability to supply it and drastic measures are called for. With graphics cards you are often limited in both cooling and voltages with the stock implements given to you by the manufacturer so you must take matters into your own hands. Here [...]

PowerColor Announces “Pimp My Rig” Contest

Been a bit busy guys but I found this interesting enough. Powercolor is sponsoring a contest with the goal being score the lowest 3DMark 2003 score. Contrary to most contests where the goal is to be the fastest, PowerColor has decided to reward people for the slowest machines. The reward for having the lowest 3DMark2003 [...]

Atlanta Overclockers Club/Meet/Thing

So this is sort of what I’ve been working on lately. Inspired by some of the great overclocking legends of the past and present, I’ve decided to attempt to professionalize this hobby of mine. Living in Atlanta, I figured with a few million people within a day’s drive there must be a few people interested [...]

EVGA 8400GS Volt Modification and Overclocking

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. [...]

Gigabyte Overclocking Contest

I’ve been a bit busy the last couple of days and I haven’t had enough time to post but the pressure is finally off. About two weeks ago I was informed of an overclocking contest sponsored by Gigabyte. The contest was based around the 3DMark 2006 CPU test score and limited to Gigabyte motherboards utilizing [...]

Review: MSI P35 Neo2-FR Under Cascade

Yesterday I had the chance to test this motherboard under some sub-ambient cooling and I was blown away. I’ve got a high-end board arriving later this week so I figured I’d go out in the garage and check up on the cascade and tune it for the Q6600. After a slight delay in which I [...]