Abit was
ready to show the world how good their motherboards can overclock, and they
were damn shore that they would succeed. But when you run out of luck, even the
best hardware can't help.
A huge three stage custom made gas cooling unit that was brought too cool the CPU. As we were informed, they couldn't even start up the cooler because it started eating more energy than the Cebit hall electrical system could handle.
Well,
instead of cooling the CPU, this cooling unit turned into a pretty expensive
paperweight.
After a few
days, a smaller system was used to demonstrate Abits IN9 32X motherboard power combined with Intel Core 2 Extreme x6800 @ 4813MHz, and CAS3 DDR2 memory. The bus speed was 1750 MHz which looks nice.
