Nostalgia Overclocking: MSI Wind U100 meets LN2

A few years ago Josh Collins (former technical writer for Atomic Magazine) and I had a stupid idea. Take the overclockable MSI Wind U100 netbook, add LN2 and a tub full of insulating grease and see how it overclocks.

After a failed first attempt that instantly killed the Wind, our replacement arrived and a 2nd attempt was more successful. The Wind didn't overclock extremely well, but we still were able to push to what was at the time, the highest Atom frequency recorded.

After an hour or so of fighting with CPU-Z we were able to achieve a frequency of 2315 MHz, a full 715 MHz over the stock frequency.

Here is a link to the Engadget article
Also a link to our forum post at the time, dated 25/11/2008

Pointless? Sure. Waste of resources? For sure. Fun? 100%. I tried to convince Apple to let me do the same thing to a Macbook, they weren't so keen.