Records are meant to be broken, and recently world famous overclocker Vince “KingPin” Lucido partnered with Illya “TiN” Tsemenko in order to break the 3DMark 11 and Vantage world records by using a quad-SLI system that was cooled with liquid nitrogen.
After a pretty long benching session, the team managed to achieve P79364 points in 3DMark Vantage as well as P24347 in 3DMark 11.
These are the fastest scores to date to be achieved in the two Futuremark applications and greatly exceed the two previous
world records (P78072 in Vantage and 21497 in 3DMark 11).
In order to achieve these results, the team used a dual socket EVGA Classified SR-2 motherboard and a pair of Intel Xeon X5690 processors.
Both CPUs as well as the Intel 5520 motherboard chipset were cooled with LN2 and the processors were overclocked to as much as 5.62GHz form their original 3.46 GHz frequency.
The graphics power required was provided by four liquid nitrogen cooled EVGA
GTX 580 graphics cards that had their GPUs running at 1190MHz, from the stock 772Mhz, while the memory was pushed to 1251MHz (5004MHz data rate).
Speaking of memory, the DDR3 DIMMs used during the world record attempt were provided by Corsair (Dominator GT GTX2) and worked at 2034MHz with timings set at 8-8-8-24 and a 1T command rate.
In total, the test system used seven
Kingpin Cooling LN2 pots and it required no less than three high wattage power supply units.
The 3DMark Vantage score hasn't been added to the Hwbot database, which could indicate that the two overclockers are trying to surpass the 80K barrier.
More details about this new world record are available on the Corsair
blog, and on the Xtreme Systems
forum.
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