Eisbaer798 secures four gold medals with the Intel Core 2 Duo E6400

Today, German enthusiast Eisbaer798 claimed four records in the Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU's model category. Depending on the benchmark, the chip was overclocked to frequencies ranging from 4721 to 4800MHz. A phase-change cooling system was used, dropping core temperatures to -76°C under load and -88°C at idle. The DDR3 RAM ran at approximately 1900MHz with 6-7-6-20 1T timings.

Through extensive hardware modifications, careful CPU binning, and even more meticulous system tuning, the overclocker achieved the following results:

In Cinebench - R11.5, the German achieved 2.66 points:

The enthusiast scored 235 points in the newer Cinebench - R15:

Finally, Geekbench3 results were 2774 points for the single-threaded sub-test and 5114 points for the multi-threaded:

Notably, the cooling system on the ASUS Rampage Extreme motherboard received a significant modification:

⤢ ВІДКРИТИ

Essentially, Eisbaer798 created a new cooling solution for both the northbridge and southbridge. This is crucial because on the LGA 775 platform, the memory controller resides in the northbridge, which is soldered to the board. Without adequate chipset cooling, overclocking the FSB to 500MHz or higher can become significantly more difficult, or in some cases, outright impossible.

The enthusiast's test bench comprised the following components:

• Motherboard: ASUS Rampage Extreme

• RAM: 2x 2GB A-DATA DDR3 2200+ 2OZ sticks

• Graphics card: Zotac GeForce GT 220 DDR3

• Storage: Samsung 850 Pro 256GB

• PSU: Enermax Revolution87+ 650 watts

Source: Eisbaer798's HWBot profile