Dry Ice allows for cheap sub zero cooling for those occasional benchmark sessions, it gives you enough time to experiment with different settings and run a few benchmark to assess the performance you can extract from a setup like this AMD A64 3000+. With better cooling (LN² , multiple stage phase change cooling) I’m confident this CPU can grab the world overclocking record, as it stands I have to settle for third place . While a good CPU is essential to get anywhere, the motherboard can not be overlooked, the DFI nForce4 S939 motherboards are the best out there, the Ultra-D and SLI-D proved this during my benchmark session, but there’s one more… the DFI Expert motherboard adds more control over the different BIOS settings, and one in particular could have helped me: memory dividers