3DMark Vantage Single Processors World Record Smashed

A new 3DMark Vantage single processors world record has been set at the end of last week, when a trio of well renowned overclockers managed to achieve P75892 marks by using four highly tuned Asus GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II graphics cards configured to run in SLI.

The trio was made up of Kinc, Elmor and SF3D, and managed to improve the previous world record by more than 1,000 points.

For this feat, the team used a single Intel Core i7 990X Extreme Edition processor that was overclocked to 6,213MHz (by going with a 35X multiplier and a 177.5MHz BCLK) and had all of the six cores, as well as Hyper-Threading, activated.

To put things in perspective, the 990X comes clocked at 3.46GHz, so this translates into a 79% overclock.

The four GTX 580 DirectCU II graphics cards were also clocked significantly higher than their stock frequency as they run at 1,105MHz core and 1,301MHz memory, compared to the standard 782MHz/1002MHz.

Both the CPU and the GPUs were cooled with liquid nitrogen and the trio used an SF3D OC Inflection Point LN2 evaporator for the CPU and four Kingpin Tek-9 6 Slim evaporators for the graphics cards.

The rest of the system was comprised out of an Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboard, with a ROG Xpander card, 4 GB of dual-channel ADATA memory that run at 887.5MHz and dual Antec HCP 1200W high performance power supply units.

For those of you that don't remember, the ROG Xpander is a specially designed add-on card that installs in the PCI Express slots available on the Rampage III Extreme and, thanks to its dual Nvidia nForce 200 bridge chips, enables 4-way SLI with full PCI Express 2.0 x16 bandwidth.



The Asus GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II graphics card has been used to achieve numerous records and is currently the world's fastest GTX 580 GPU as it was overclocked to an impressive 1519MHz. (via TechPowerUp)