It's basically performing the same job as a human overclocker, but without the mistakes.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. By sensing the benchmark load and power consumption on both processors, the controller takes charge of delivering the right amount of liquid nitrogen to those components at the right time, in order to match their target temperatures while maintaining stability. Tin focused mostly on developing the Roboclocker's external controller box, which is connected to the CPU and GPU as well as to their liquid nitrogen valves. There's also a heater plate - a specialty of Kingpin's own component brand - on the back of the CPU socket, which helps prevent condensation damage on the motherboard. It's a lot of money: The CPU alone costs around $1,800, not to mention the $3,000 GPU. The PC part consists of an EVGA X299 Dark motherboard, an 18-core Intel Core i9-7980XE processor, an NVIDIA Titan V GPU, G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 RAM and a 1.6kW EVGA power supply. While this may not be the first automatic liquid-nitrogen-overclocking rig, it's the first of its kind to actually break records.Īccording to Kingpin, this Roboclocker (which made its debut at this year's Computex) was its third iteration. The result is the Roboclocker, a PC that can intelligently and efficiently pump liquid nitrogen to both its CPU and GPU. EVGA's Vince "Kingpin" Lucido and Illya "Tin" Tsemenko are well-known for their GPU-overclocking records over the years, but they, too, grew tired of the tedious "monkey work," to the point where they decided to build a rig that could overclock itself. Professional overclockers from G.SKILL and HWBOT had set everything up in the first place.Įven the pros can find this all a little mundane. I had my first taste of this delicate hobby at last year's Computex, in which, with a lot of back and forth between pouring liquid nitrogen and torching, I managed to push Intel's 4.2GHz Core i7-7700K processor to an epic 7GHz.
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