It has been quite sometime since we had LN2 session on a VGA. If i recall correctly, the last round was coolice OverClocking his Gainward V-MODed 9800GT on LN2. So i guess it's about time to polish up our skill on VGA LN2 OverClocking. But if you are reading this Overview, which i guess alot people doesn't, this report is not about how high we could clock the VGA. The interesting part is that we insulated the VGA with vaseline, and WE WASH IT. We didn't aim high for this session of LN2 OverClocking as the amount of LN2 was very limited (left over from the Kingston Power User Gathering). I believe we will be doing another round of LN2 on the MSI N480GTX Lightning end of the month. Hopefully in Lowyat Plaza, another OverClocking Demo. Seems like Year 2010 is an OverClocking year for Malaysia.



Product Info
MSI N480GTX Lightning - Click here!!

• Power4 Architecture - 16 phase PWM
• Twin Frozr III Thermal Design - Dual 9CM PWM Fans
• Triple Overvoltage by Afterburner - vGPU, vMEM, vPLL
• Top Quality Components - Military Class Components, Lightning Power Layer, Golden-plated Connector
• Rated at DDR3 2250MHz 9-11-9, 1.65V
• Xtreme OverClocking Switches - OCP Unlocker, PWM freq, XtremeCool, XtremeCool 2

Benching Rig

• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-980X Processor Extreme Edition
• Mainboard: MSI X58 XPower
• Memory: Kingston HyperX Genesis KHX1800C8D3K2/2GN
• Graphic Card: MSI N480GTX Lightning
• SSD:Kingston SSD NOW V+ Series 128GB
• Power Supply: Antec CP-1000
• Operation System: Windows XP3 32bit

This post has been edited by Sanko: Nov 8 2010, 09:56 PM

This post has been edited by Sanko: Nov 8 2010, 09:57 PM

One of the reason the scores were low is due to the NVIDIA Driver used. Seems like version 260.99 scored lower compared to version 258.96. Although the scores we obtained was very low, but sure we are very happy with the benching session. Cause it was the last run for our trusty dblooi's CPU Pot and now there's new incoming pot. It was a farewell bench for the pot and it didn't disappoints us, although there were plenty of problem occurred. And running LN2 on a such high end VGA made the day.

i'll never wash my GC like that~

that's for sure~

how did you dry up the 3dcard bro?

uzer85: wkwkkwk... i believe most of the ppl same as you.
Mr_47: leave it for 24 hours is recommended. as i was sick, i leave it for 48 hours and booted up no problem.

i really LOL-ed when u wash ur gc like that

Nice OC review Sanko

eh????where is the hot water part?????????????

hihihehe: i LOL-ed during washing too. mixture with fear though.
shinjite: thanks, appreciate it.
coolice: in the baldi lor. it's hot water, direct hot water from shower. wkkwkwk...

wafak, i asked u boil, u take it from shower pulak

wow, first time seeing overclock graphic card on liquid nitrogen.
and a so expensive graphic card washing with water, scary.
but how is the clean up job on the motherboard?
since it have been sticking a layer of don't know what on it?

You guys are very sick! and crazy!
how can gc can be wash like that.
haha

i wash my mobo and vga like tat once awhile when it get too dusty

demmit.
how can be like that.
$$$$.
money.
got sponsor can do like that la.if personal.wooo.
i need to think not double but so many times.

Nice OC review (especially the washing part )
Apologize for sitting there whole day night long,
The board couldn't boot up with more than 5.2GHz (Suspect OCP kicks in or what),
Previous round wasted a lot of LN2 due to that.
The purpose of volunteering myself at the benching seat was to avoid that happen again.
but once I sit there, then I'm glued there ( Sorry, bad habit )
I'll note on that next time, and just to let you all know I can be shoo away
It's a shared benching session, I really hope everyone would share the same joy & same fun.

Side note: WTS db pot, brother brother price lai lai XD

coolice: shower fast mar.

saturn85: the insulation of the mobo is different. although we can also use vaseline but we always use Faber Castell Kneaded Erasers or Blue-Tak. it's easier to remove. actually coolice did release a comprehensive insulation guide for mobo last time. a pinned-worthy thread but gone unnoticed. lol.

sevensigns: actually it's kinda save. and actually we are not sponsored, only that MSI is willing to loan it to us. not only MSI actually i believe ASUS and Gigabyte are willing too. i believe we deserved it since we started out to prove ourselves long time ago. and the results? top 2 HWBot in Malaysia is among us. lol. and actually we do not keep such thing within ourselves. i actually even asked Kingston to send samples to cstkl during the Kingston Power User Gathering cause he is the actualy guru in Memory.

dblooi: as always, it's TEAM effort! always. hehe...