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Only a few days after Corsair announced that it achieved a new DDR3 world record with their Dominator GTX6 memory series, Kingston with the help of the guys from Lab 501 took this WR to a whole new level surpassing the previous result with a cool 133MHz data rate.Softpedia was there during this world record attempt a... |
8 December 2011
06:05 GMT |
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When it comes to setting world records, no processor seems to be a match for AMD's Bulldozer-based FX-8150, which was recently used by an overclocker together with a pair of Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 modules to set a new WR memory frequency of 1733.8MHz (DDR3-3467). The record was achieved by Jake "Planet" Crim... |
23 November 2011
03:22 GMT |
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Just a few weeks after the official launch of AMD's first processors based on the Bulldozer architecture, an overclocker has managed to reach a new CPU frequency world record by utilizing the chip maker's flagship desktop processor, the FX-8150.The record was achieved by cooling the CPU with liquid nitrogen... |
31 October 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Mitsubishi intends to enter the book of world records, but the means it chose isn't some new PC device or another, but a new generation of elevators that will narrowly exceed the current 55 feet per second.
Mitsubishi is going to be the company that designs the elevator system for the as-yet-unfinished Shangh... |
29 September 2011
09:43 GMT |
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In the fourth quarter of this year, AMD is expected to update its A-series desktop APU lineup with a new chip that will feature an unlocked multiplier, and recently, an overclocker used an engineering sample of this processor to break the 3D Mark Vantage and 06 world records for integrated graphics.
The new accele... |
1 August 2011
16:21 GMT |
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A computer enthusiast who managed to get his hands on one of AMD's upcoming Llano desktop accelerated processing units (APUs) just broke the 3DMark 06, Vantage and 11 world records for integrated graphics.
The platform used for this task included a Gigabyte A75M-UD2H motherboard, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and the AMD A... |
13 June 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Intel's processors have been known for their impressive overclocking headroom for quite some time, and a new world record established by a Celeron CPU comes to confirm this claim, as the chip managed to achieve no less than 8.2GHz.
This is the fastest frequency to be achieved by this particular Celeron CPU mo... |
9 June 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Microsoft has revealed that Xbox Live users have set a brand new world record for the largest simultaneous online 100-meter sprint, achieved with the help of the Kinect Sports title.
Over Easter weekend, Microsoft held a very special event, in the form of the Xbox Nations one, which not only offered European Xbox ... |
27 April 2011
15:51 GMT |
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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, t... |
22 April 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Microsoft is holding a very special event this weekend, as not only will Xbox Live European users get a free weekend with Gold privileges, but the company is also hosting a global world record attempt for the largest online 100-meter sprint, through Kinect Sports.
Microsoft is definitely hungry for more world reco... |
22 April 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Ever since MSI launched the first HAWK-series graphics cards a few years ago, these solutions have proven to be quite popular among regular, as well as enthusiast users, and now a HAWK version of the Radeon HD 6870 managed to snag the world record title in no less than four versions of the popular 3DMark benchmarks.
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8 April 2011
09:28 GMT |
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No one can argue with the fact that Antec builds some of the best power supply units in the industry, and, to underline this fact, the company has just announced that two world records have been set using the High Current Pro series HCP-1200 PSU that was used to power a high-end system with a power consumption up to ... |
28 March 2011
09:13 GMT |
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Other World Computing, a company well known for its high performance Mac and PC hardware solutions, has just announced that the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE solid state drive was an integral component of a test rig that established a world record in the PCMark Vantage overall point category for a quad-core system.
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25 March 2011
05:16 GMT |
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Lately, most of the unveiled 3DMark world records have been achieved by using one or more of Asus' highly overclockable GeForce GTX 580 Direct CU II, so it's refreshing to see that Gigabyte can also compete in this race, as one overclocker managed to capture the 3DMark 03 dual-card world record by using a p... |
23 March 2011
09:50 GMT |
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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 ... |
7 March 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Although they can hardly be called portable, Eurocom's mobile workstations are some of the fastest “laptops” available on the market, and the company set to prove it recently by using one of their Panther 2.0 systems to break the mobile 3DMark 06 world record.
As you can most certainly guess, the ... |
12 January 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Graphics card manufacturers are locked into an epic battle meant to push their solutions over those of the competition, Gigabyte being one of the companies that often resorts to the results obtained by overclockers in order to push its brand awareness among enthusiasts, the Taiwanese company just announcing that thei... |
29 December 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Although 3DMark 11 has now been released that doesn't mean overclockers will stop showing love for 3DMark Vantage just overnight, a new world record being set today by one of the most famous names in the overclocking game, k|ngp|n managing to shatter its previous record by obtaining no less than 74,741 points.Th... |
8 December 2010
14:01 GMT |
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In the last few years the high performance database sever market has been the playground of companies such as IBM and HP, but Oracle is set to challenge that with its new SPARC Supercluster that was built by its subsidiary Sun and features no less than 1,728 processor cores.Compared to other database servers that are... |
6 December 2010
07:04 GMT |
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Just as the world record of fast SMS typing had been smashed, someone came along and smashed the new one, following with a blog post and a video of the impressive feat. “So, I guess I did something sort of cool,” Blogger Brian Sweet of Gumball Tech writes. “I read a blog post on Boy Genius Report ... |
25 August 2010
07:03 GMT |
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Sprinters who establish world records generally have West African ancestors and the fastest swimmers in the world are white. Without being a racial differencing, this reality is rather biologically motivated, Adrian Bejan, professor of engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering and co-authors Edward Jones... |
12 July 2010
04:36 GMT |
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A game has already managed to earn a world record this year, but one thing that happens even less often is a gamer that manages to claim a world record. Still, GTA IV has so far enabled two of its players to enter the Guinness Book of Records. The feat that has propelled the two gamers in the world of the famous is t... |
21 October 2009
06:41 GMT |
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One of the most acclaimed games of this year, Batman: Arkham Asylum, proves its worth in hard cash and sales figure. Eidos, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and Rocksteady's third-person action adventure with stealth elements managed to rake up almost 2 million units sold in just 2 weeks after its August ... |
22 September 2009
04:32 GMT |
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If you've ever wondered how many text messages one would be able to send in a month, here is a possible answer to that question: 217,000. At least this is the number of messages two men from central Pennsylvania managed to send in March in an attempt to set a new world record. All sounds good so far for Nick A... |
23 April 2009
08:39 GMT |
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Video games have evolved a lot in the last few years, and have reached, as a lot of critics dare say, an art form, expressing a lot of things that usually can't be portrayed through conventional means like movies or TV shows. But let's not forget that, fundamentally, games are just a form of entertainment,... |
17 March 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Cricket and Samsung Mobile have unveiled the largest working phone in the world on Wednesday, March 11 in Pioneer Court in downtown Chicago. The two leading companies came on display with a working replica of the Samsung Messager phone.The device unveiled by the two in Chicago is around 15 feet long, 13 feet high, an... |
13 March 2009
08:02 GMT |
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This year's Olympic Games saw a number of world records go up in flames, including those for 100 and 200 meter sprints, both knocked down by Usain Bolt. This made Mark Denny, a researcher at Stanford University, wonder how much more humans could gain in speed over the years. He was curious especially about wheth... |
28 November 2008
14:21 GMT |
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This weekend reports came in and they say that about ten people were the first to form a waiting line in front of Apple's flagship Fifth Avenue Store in New York City, as they're sitting and waiting for the iPhone 3G to become available. In what was probably not the smartest move a parent could make, the fi... |
7 July 2008
03:12 GMT |
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The leading manufacturer of computer graphics, NVIDIA, is not satisfied with just offering the latest in computer graphics, it also plans to set a new world record by holding the world's "longest non-stop Lan party". This might sound childish to some, but most of NVIDIA's fans will probably agree with the S... |
23 June 2008
10:06 GMT |
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Marilyn Manson has been challenged to a televised snake-bathing competition. It was revealed this week that the controversial rocker is desperate to enter the book of Guinness World Records - and surprisingly, it's neither in the "the world's most scary-looking human being ever" category, nor in the "most h... |
28 November 2007
06:47 GMT |
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When it comes to overclocking PCs, not many people take things to the extreme, that is, if they do so in the first place. Overclocking is said by many to be a form of art, in which you create something that nobody else has. If you ask me, it's very similar to PC Modding, and also the two subjects at hand are clo... |
17 April 2007
07:33 GMT |
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British mountain climber Rod Baber is planning to climb the Everest and establish the world record by making a mobile phone call from the summit. Mr. Baber is sponsored by the mobile phone manufacturer Motorola which has provided the phone that the mountain climber will use to make the call and send a text message fr... |
3 April 2007
02:50 GMT |
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