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Well, excluding people with phase change, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, and water.


Left is CPU, right is graphics card.

CPU underclocks itself when I'm not using the full 3ghz.

Get 50 load in the CPU in prime95 small FTT 42 load cpu in dirt 2, and 69 load on graphics card in most games.

Now to see how far it can overclock.

How does one run all these tests? I'd like to see how mine stacks up...

Coretemp for CPU temperature. The sensor on AMD processors is calibrated differently compared to Intel though. The temperature they record is lower but at the same time they have lower maximum temperature meaning you can't compare intel temperatures with AMD temperatures. (for example, a intel at 80c will be hot, an AMD at 80c will probably break).

Use GPU-Z, MSI Afterburner, or Rivatuner to record videocard temperature. MSI Afterburner is probably the best, that's what I use.

idle temp is the temp when you're not doing anything, load is when you're running prime95 for cpu, or a game (or furmark) for graphics. Prime95 and furmark make the CPU and GPU run at 100% respectively so they can get very hot doing this and will stress your system.

What I want to say would get me banned... So I will say this...
I envy you.

You're lucky your hardware does not have an affliction of abnormally high temperatures.