Inside: Jagat Review’s Overclocking Chamber

On this second desk, we found a weirder array of hardwares. Overclockers (or anyone else who likes to hang around electrical appliances, in that case) should be quite familiar with these rather uncommon equipments: a 25-watt solder, a glue gun, a pair of digital multimeters, a magnifying glass, miniature heat sinks for ICs and chipsets, paper tacks, and various other tools. There’s also a room temperature and humidity measurement tool which could come in handy during extreme overclocking sessions.

Next, we saw other test bed components on the third desk. This time, they are readily assembled: a 22-inch Viewsonic LCD monitor, a CoolerMaster bench table, an MSI Big Bang Xpower X58 motherboard, A-DATA RAM modules, and an Antec TPQ-1200W OC Edition power supply unit. All waiting for the unfortunate processor that is about to be incorporated into this particular rig.

Alva puts his usual extreme cooling devices along the edges of the windows, to the back of these three desks. There, we found a TENMARS brand digital thermal sensor, an IR thermal sensor with laser sight, a bunch of armaflex foam for insulation purposes during extreme overclocks, and, of course, a k|ngp|n F1 EE Nickel-plated LN2 container. Members of the overclocking team can easily reach out to grab them whenever they like.

Lying on the floor at one side of this room was a suspicious looking cylinder. As we were told later on, it contains 15L of LN2. Being one of the best cooling agents for overclockers thus far, that smoking-cold liquid sees numerous deployments in this room. A small closet, used to store Alva’s small tools, is located right next to the liquid-gas container. The avid overclocker also brought in a nice suitcase to carry his tools whenever he gets the chance to participate in an overclocking contest.