Overclocking, The Natural Way
Over the weekend a blizzard has hit Michigan causing sub-zero temperatures, inches of snow, and zealous winds. We took this opportunity to make the best of it with natural sub-zero overclocking. With the Abit AW9D i975X motherboard, an Intel Pentium 4 processor, 2GB of OCZ's Flex XLC PC2-9200 memory, and cooling provided by Mother Nature, we set off on a spontaneous overclocking adventure.
As this was truly an impromptu overclocking event, we had not planned ahead of time what hardware to use nor properly setting up a work environment. However, the basis of this system was the Abit AW9D motherboard. This motherboard boasts Silent OTES technology and is backed by Intel's flagship 975X Chipset. As we learned when reviewing this motherboard, it was a worthy successor to the Abit AW8-MAX and a great Linux motherboard in general. The processor used was an Intel Pentium 4 530. This Prescott processor had overclocked fairly well in the past, and was a processor we would not miss if it were to be taken by the weather. The heatsink used was a Spire (with Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste) and a Noctua NF-R8 Fan.
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