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...

where did you get ur GTX 480 Lightning!?!

MSI loan us their 480...

i really wish kingston loan me their 512GB SSD then forgot to take it back~

cstkl is the best person about memory.why in this test you not invited he?
sure grab some knowledge from he.

Well,cstkl1 is not really into extreme ocing
He is more into absolute stability ocing

Yepp, cant deny with this statement

that must be the luckiest tooth brush in the whole world. u guys are fcuking sick dude.... i like that'

so when's the next session eh.

i wanna bench now not pouring ln2 anymore

what next? GTX580 lightning 3 Ln2?

hilmiangah: will let you know when the time comes, planning something. maybe another online compy. lol.
Mr_47: if 580GTX i believe won't be LN2 that soon. hoping that it will arrive in time for a DEMO session in CELgames. hehe...

doesnt matter if its online or what as long as its about overclocking and yeah i do agree with u that 2010 is full of overclocking activity.

nice review sanko..good job

nice, btw i do that too, after wash with sunlight very shine, look brand new maybe i need to get oral-b brush too wash too.

matnur_83: thanks, appreciate it.
Gamer: nice, seems like i'm not the only one doing that. coolice did, now Gamer did too. next maybe colgate brush, cheapest. i believe it's as good as oral-b in this case. wkkwkkwk..

Glad to see you all still alive and kicking. Great work. ^^

+1000 !

his avatar alone somehow makes me feel motivated again!

awesome job Sanko, as always~

nice review, tq

Good job guys. Very nice review. Thank you very much.

Hyde`fK and irenic: wow... looking at both of your nicks, really bring me memories. lol
azmie alwi and hantarkatsini2: thank you. really appreciate it. luckily no one shoot.

Yea, sure is. When I drop by KL find you yumcha. For sure I'm with rlhc17 one.

speechless.. ..

nice sanko and the rest for this crazee test..yay!!

washing the gc part is damn scary

thanks guys. really appreciate the kind word. but it's really no big deal cause ppl around the world is doing that.

seriously good stuff u got there sanko

kakicam: thanks, really appreciate it.
Since this thread is not dead yet and i actually "rebench" this card with SandyBridge platform. Here goes..

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-2600K
Mainboard: MSI P67A-GD65
Memory: Corsair Dominator GT 2GB x 2 CMT4GX3M2A2133C9
PSU: Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050W


Aquamark: 5.4GHz, 920MHz | 1080MHz


3DMark03: 5.4GHz 950MHz | 1100MHz

This post has been edited by Sanko: Feb 3 2011, 08:33 AM

rebench done on air or also LN2?

air i would say, this chip does 5.5ghz suicide with ninja 3, 5.4ghz 3d benchable is pretty reasonable

WADAf...., this is totally awesome... was it really done on air..?

This post has been edited by kakicam: Feb 7 2011, 02:59 AM