A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THE STAFF OF VR-ZONE , especially YANTONIC, FLOOPY, STEVEN , DREAMSLAKCER , VISIONARY. ALSO A BIG THANK YOU TO TIM MARSHAL AND NIGHTRAVEN FOR YOUR WONDERFULL HOSPITALITY. SPECIAL THANKS TO SANKO AND ALEX FOR MORAL SUPORT AND GETTING US THE PROCESSOR RESPECTIVELY .ALSO A THANKS TO RUPERT FOR LETTING US STAY AT HIS HOUSE FOR SO LONG. Thanks also to all that i didnt mention. you know who u are

A few days before Chinese New Year , coolice called me up and asked me if i wanted to go to Singapore with him. Since i was on holidays i said yes without even thinking twice. so we decided to depart from Kuala Lumpur Central on the 14th of Febuary. We would be going by train .

Arrival at Kuala Lumpur Central.





Thats Coolice with the backpack and jeans.




On to the train platform.




Our Bed/Seats for the next 11 Hours.




The last picture taken before the train moved




Not much scenery pictures because this is what it looked like out side.




Arrival at Sim Lim Square on a beautiful morning.




Then it was on to the VR-Zone office at Burlington Square which is a stones throw away from Sim Lim Square. We were greeted by Visionary , the owner and founder of VR-Zone, who then directed us to their labs, which is at a secret location . It was here where we met with floopy, the chief editor for all things VR-Zone.

It was here where i saw "some" extra hardware lying on the test benches that i couldn't resist taking pictures of.

Feast your eyes on the ( as far as i know ) the only 3 way sli setup in South East Asia at the moment.




This post has been edited by lolhalol: Feb 22 2008, 03:05 AM

We were hungry after the eleven hour train journey so we proceeded to have breakfast at the Burger King right next door.

This is the power breakfast of an over clocker ..lol




After breakfast, we were energized and ready to go. We headed back to the VR-Zone Labs where we some some funky looking cards on the bench table. There and behold, the new 9600GT . We asked if we could do some testing on them and our great hosts ( the guys of VR-Zone ) said go ahead, lol more like teh responce we got was , did i say no ? lol... . So we proceeded in setting up the setup.

Some Engineering Sample Mushkin DDR3 rams .




An Asus Maximus Extreme.
Thats the new Thermaltake DuoORB CPU cooler mounted on there. Look out for a review of it at vr-zone.com soon.




An Under NDA 9600GT.




New Display Port connector on the card It is like the DVI and S-VGA that we have now. Just a new industry standard.




The entire setup.




A 9600GT 3dMark 06 .




Sorry guys due to limited time , we could not push this card for a long time.


An a teaser of whats coming up in the next post , Tomorow .

A fully Vmoded 3870X2 by the Master YANTRONIC .







This post has been edited by lolhalol: Feb 21 2008, 11:07 PM

Couldn't sleep so on with the pictures

As the post above said. We had a fully modded 3870x2 with us. When we got to the VR-Zone lab the next day, we didn't hesitate at all to start insulating the card and mounting some pots on them. We will be using a pair of custom Duniek pots. Also a delta FFB added to help cool down the "known to be really hot" PWM.

Mounted.




We then proceeded to test the motherboard that we would be using for the day. The ultra rare Foxconn x48 BlackOps motherboard. If im not mistaken the only one in South East Asia according to floopy. This was the very board the great Shamino /Lardarse / Peter brought back when he returned from Taiwan for the Chinese New Year holidays to bench with the VR-Zone guys. He left one day before we arrived. We had missed the chance to bench with one of the best over clockers in the world. Anyway we asked if we could use it for ln2 and being the super hosts that the VR-Zone guys are, they said go ahead.

Air testing with QX9770 and Mushkin DDR3 ES



We discovered some really weird problems with the multiplier setting, and put it down to the bios is not being up to date. So i sent a personal message to Shamino / Lardarse / Peter instantly for a new bios. Unfortunately i didn't get a reply until we were done for the day and headed back to our place at woodlands for the night. Thats when i checked my personal message inbox and got a reply. in it was a document on how to work around the bios bugs and also the (supposedly) best 2.bin bios.

Will continue with the story after some pictures

A shot of the BlackOps with the pot mounted.




Unfortunately even with the new bios and instructions on how to work around the bugs we had still encountered weird problems. Random reboots and lock ups at POST. So we decided to use the Gigabyte x48DQ6 that the VR-Zone guys had lying around.

A 5 minute insulation done and all setup.




And its ready for LN2.




Me pouring Ln2




After awhile this happens




But bad luck was with us the whole time. We had funny crashes at the end of GT3 in 3dMark 06 at the same time , continuously no matter what we did. We suspected a bad 3dMark install or a driver issue because 3dmark ran fine with the 2600XT we had for air testing. In the end we had to settle for some low SuperPi 1m scores.










This post has been edited by lolhalol: Feb 22 2008, 02:07 AM

wow!!!!!! 96GT coming.

benchy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then we headed to Toa Payoh to meet up with Tim Marshal from Team AU for another 2 days of non stop benching .

Our Setup.




The twins




The Kayl Rev2 Pot.






The Cold Boot temperature.




The Ram




So on we went. setting everything up. We were surprised when the QX9770 was able to boot up at -140 ( cold boot ) and only cold bugs at -160 ish under 3d load.

Again bad luck stuck as we struggled with the boards memory divider.

We again had a 3870x2 to play with this time with slightly different Vmods. Pictures taken from Tims thread here http://www.i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=5442








Results in the next post

This post has been edited by lolhalol: Feb 22 2008, 02:48 AM

got the price range for this card?

more interested with the cpu cooler though...

Results


















This post has been edited by lolhalol: Feb 22 2008, 02:56 AM

that is ttbt vx

dam ur fast bro....

not sure.. all cards were under NDA at the time.. today NDA is lifted in 10 mins time




hehe u sure? ..hehe totaly wrong

ttbtvx?? small one.. i think not ttbtvx..

hmmm..
then what is it ha..looks like one..let me check again..

owh..ttbt vx dont have any hsf connected to the base..this one got..but this cooler a bit small

This post has been edited by alive88: Feb 21 2008, 09:50 PM

fuiyoh...this is wicked!!

can't wait for the reviews!!

thermalright product la~

still wrong

i seem recognized.. look like venus..haha.. wrong maybe

OMG !!!!
I WAN THE QX9770 and 9600GT !!!
where did you get that 9600 ??? and how much it cost?
damm i just bought a new 8600... should have wait for the 9600.... T_T

Scythe Zipang maybe?

we didnt buy the card. when we did play with them they were under a Non Disclosure agreement thats why i didnt post this thread earlier .

ahh... seems like some one has been reading the heatsink reviews recently good eye on spotting it

Updated the first posts.... u guys can read.. and wait for next episode

wow..nice bro..hehhe no wonder heard abit happening when sanko called me lastime..hehe both of u been there yeah..nice one..if im oso able be there wud b nice

If it was then it wouldn't have been interesting anymore...

haha yeah... lol... ur acryan mesh panel was dam heavy..hehe.. must charge u extra coz so difficult,lt to cary