The world of overclocking is a relatively vast one, when you start getting into it, and it attracts many people with the promise of higher speed and bragging rights as well as the allure of gaining new life out of older hardware. An overclocker by the name of Brian McLachlan, or chew*, has set record 3DMark "06 scores, using stock AMD Phenom II X4 955 processors, using all sorts of methods ranging from air to dry ice and liquid nitrogen. His initial post about his results can be found over here, and we have included a YouTube video about it below.
If you"re interested in the results then have a gander below.
#2 3DMark06 23,883
Single ATI Radeon HD 4890 Class
#1 3DMark06 28,831
Dual ATI Radeon HD 4850 Class
#1 3DMark06 Score 32,281
Dual ATI Radeon HD 4890 Class
Results on DDR3
DDR3 5-5-5-15-20 At 1443 Mhz
DDR3 6-6-6-16-22 At 1636 Mhz
Results on Air
4515 Mhz All Core Validation
4070 Mhz Extreme Stability | CPU 1.50V
Results on Dry Ice
5217 Mhz All Core Validation
4717 Mhz Extreme Stability | CPU 1.60V
Results on Liquid Nitrogen
6405 Mhz All Core Validation
6283 Mhz Benchmark PI 1M (6283) 11.078 | DDR3 9-9-9 1700
5751 Mhz Extreme Stablity | CPU 1.80V
MA790FX-UD5P DDR2 Motherboard
MA790FXT-UDP5 DDR3 Motherboard