German overclocker Eisbaer798 has snagged two gold medals in the Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 category, a once-popular dual-core CPU. Using liquid nitrogen to cool the chip to -125°C under load (and -130°C at idle), he pushed it to an impressive 6035MHz for the venerable Cinebench - 2003 benchmark and 5934MHz for the relatively modern Cinebench - R11.5.
Benchmarks and results:
Discipline | Result | CPU frequency |
2128 points | 6035МГц | |
3.66 points | 5934МГц |
The overclocker's test bench consisted of the following components:
Motherboard - ASUS P5E3 Premium (Intel X48 chipset). Its main and crucial advantage is DDR3 RAM support, which greatly simplifies overclocking LGA 775 chips.
RAM - ADATA Plus+ DDR3 2x 2GB sticks with CL6.0 7-6-18 6T timings
Graphics card - Zotac GeForce GT 220 DDR3 (GT216)
Storage - Samsung 850 EVO 256GB (MGX controller)
Power supply - Enermax Revolution87+ 650 watts
Additionally, Eisbaer798 shared a few photos of his workstation:
Source: Enthusiast's profile on HWBot
