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To be able to exploit the power of the TWKR Edition, I will go extreme cooling and use dry ice. Keep in mind this substance is around -80C. It is still far from the liquid helium setup used at the AMD Austin Overlocking event we talked about in the first page, but it should allow me to go much higher than what can be achieved on air or water.

As for the benchmarks, they will be very different than what you see in our standard reviews. Most of them would be pointless with a temporary extreme cooling setup. I will concentrate on benchmarks people are more used to, and that we can find lists of scores with different setups. I will run two system benchmarks and two processor benchmarks, and I will also attempt the highest suicide run in CPU-z.

Benchmarks:

• 3DMark Vantage
• 3DMark 06
• Super PI
• wPrime
• CPU-z

I will put all the chances on my side and use the test setup that will yield the best scores. Because of its great performance, I will use the ASUS M4N82 Deluxe, despite the fact that it supports only DDR2 memory. At the same time, it will allow me to throw in an extra GTX 260 alongside the one I use normally and run the duo in SLI. As for the operating system, Windows XP is not a choice because I want to run 3DMark Vantage. So I chose Windows 7 over Vista.

Test Setup:

• AMD Phenom II TWKR Edition processor
• ASUS M4N82 Deluxe motherboard
• GTX 260s graphics cards, in SLI configuration
• Mushkin DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15 memory
• Thermaltake Touphpower 1000W power supply
• Seagate 7200.11 750GB hard drive
• Windows 7 Release Candidate operating system
• Custom extreme cooling, using dry ice

Without losing anymore time, let's get to overclocking and see what the TWKR can achieve!