Jan 28, 2011 12:11 GMT  ·  By

In the overclocking arena records don't hold out for that long, less then two months after managing to achieve the highest score ever in 3DMark Vantage, Kingpin returning to establish a new world record, by using four Galaxy GTX 580 graphics cards in SLI.

The system that managed to achieve this feat is extremely similar to the one that the famous overclocker used at the beginning of December to achieve the P74741 score that propelled him to the first place in the 3DMark Vantage rankings.

However, this time, Kingpin managed to push the four graphics cards even further, as these now had their core running at an impressive 1170MHz frequency, 100MHz more than before, while the memory was run at 1125MHz.

To put things in perspective, the stock version of the GTX 580 has its core clocked at 772MHz, so Kingpin managed to achieve a more than impressive 62% GPU overclock.

Of course, a special cooling system had to be used for these frequencies to be achieved, the four cards being chilled with the help of Kingpin's Tek9 4 and 5.0 LN2 pots.

In addition to the four Galaxy GTX 580 graphics cards, the rest of the system was comprised of dual Intel Xeon X5680 CPU's installed on an EVGA dual-socket Classified SR-2 motherboard, six sticks of Corsair 2000MHz C7 memory, an 80GB Intel X25M SSD, and dual 1200W power supply units.

Just like the GPUs, the processors were also cooled with liquid nitrogen and overclocked to reach 5368MHz, more than 2000MHz more than their stock clock rates.

In order for the CPUs to be stable at this frequency their voltage had to be increased to a whopping 1.729V, as CPU-Z reports.

The score achieved in 3DMark Vantage performance mode was 75324, the previous world record standing at “just” P74741. (via Expreview)

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