Hi All
found this be be amusing ..... this guy a liquid nitrogen cooled his fancy new Opti ...... 
getting 2.2ghz outta the 1.8 chip .... 
http://www.vrforums.com/showthread.php?pos...4322#post344322
wonder if his difficulties were artificial or just because the first gen is at its limits.
Hope the athlon64 ain't so bad off.
Time will tell ....
still insane tho.....So are there coarse out there that teach "how to liquid nitrogen cool your PC" 
from what i have read it usually isn't worth the additional cost or risk. It is one thing to use air cooling with a good HSF to push things up 10%, i think it is another when people get all "radical" with their hardware to try and push things farther than they were initially meant to go.
I have alway equated Overclocking as the "Tim the Tool Man Taylor" approach .... great if it works but not so great if it causes flames or serious injury ...
Mind you you can never have too much power Grrrr! Grrrr! Grrrr! GRrrrrr!!
i had an AMD Athlon motherboard catch fire on me (literally) about 18months ago. It wasn't due to over clocking either. It cooked my GF3 card, PS and my Athlon 1.33 would only run at 1ghz after that.
I think it was a crappy mobo to be honest with you. I never OC'ed that little rig i had running. I still buy AMD though.
bugger .... wouldn't want that too happen
last year I toasted my CPU cause I forgot to add thermal paste ....
nothing worse than pressing the start button and goin g..... hmmmm whats that smell ..... lol
I had a friend toast a CPU because he added too much thermal paste haha.
Well in my case I did have some .... but it was still in it factory sealed tube ... he he he
I have learned that it doesn't seem to work from 6 feet away ....
Artic Silver 3 is great stuff. Just do NOT eat it. It might look kinda perty, but its not a good idea.
i will keep that in mind for next time ... lol
yeh, FWIW