Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, let me take a minute to introduce the proudest moment in my overclocking experience to date.

Last Friday, 2 people and 3 parcels turned up at the door. The two people were Mike (muttley) and Scott (scooter.jay), and the 3 parcels were 10kg of Dry Ice, some Socket 775 insulation kits and last but my no means least, a Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770.

First thank you must go to Dominique of Clean Surface ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for being so good in sorting me out with the Dry Ice - make a note people, if you ever need any Dice, she's the person to call. She had 10kg of Dice, delivered on an AM delivery on Friday morning, just as promised for a great price. Thanks again, and expect another call in the very near future!

Second thanks goes to Rich for sending me the Socket 775 kits Duniek had sent him.

Third, and huge thanks, must go to Dave (vento1) for sending the QX9770 at such short notice for us to have a blast with. I have to say mate, you have an awesome CPU here and I look forward to the score you'll be posting in the very near future!

So...what did we get up to?