So what do you do a warm pre-summer day in June? Get out the dry ice of course. I already had a modified phase change cooling but was interested to see what a few blocks of dry ice could accomplish.

I bought an AMD FX-57 (2.8Ghz) for a good price with the aim to overclock it as far as possible



CABNE 0530APMW looks to be a good stepping and production week, overclock reports coming in from people running 3ghz with good air cooling. I assembled a system with these parts:

AMD Atlon64 FX57 s939 2,8GHz 1Mb l2-cache

DFI nf4 Lanparty Ultra-D

2x256MB BH-5 and 2x512Mb BH-5

S3 PCI video card *

OCZ Powerstream 600W

* I planned to use a slightly higher end model ;) but unfortunately had no other available.



Using water cooling and some ICE cubes in the reservoir I got up to 3207Mhz:



Now let's go subzero ->