14 DAY TRIAL // There are many graphics cards on the consumer market already, but ColorFire figured it would briefly set aside its specialty, that being NVIDIA GeForce boards, in order to deliver an iteration of AMD's Radeon HD 6850.
One could say that there is a literal myriad of video controllers running rampant on the worldwide IT market, from NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices both.
These graphics cards cover the low-end, the mainstream and high-end segments and propagate the rivalries between the two GPU developers and between their many rivals.
ColorFire, a sister brand to Colorful, is one outfit that seems to like taking its time when creating any model, apparently being dead set on making sure they are better than most others out there.
What it built now is a version of AMD's Radeon HD 6850 responsible for breaking the previous 3DMark Vantage record for all HD 6850.
In the hands of Chinese oveclocker Carl, the product is reported to have reached P27751, 3,810 points over the previous highest.
Of course, in order to attain such a record, serious tweaks had to be made to the clock speeds, until the GPU ran at 1,500 MHz an the memory at 1,275 MHz (5,100 MHz GDDR5 effective). On that note, the amount of memory is 1 GB.
The model also boasts a PCB (printed circuit board) with a strong VRM, OCP unlock switches, dual-BIOS, a 4+1 phase VRM and high-grade POSCAP capacitors and chokes. Basically, the video adapter is built for stability and endurance.
The system configuration that pushed ColorFire's Xstorm HD 6950 so high has an Intel Core i7-980X, a six-core unit that was kept at 5.7 GHz.
Of course, in order to prevent explosions, fires and most anything that could result from overheating, the overclocker had to use quite a bit of liquid nitrogen for cooling. The HWBOT validation can be read here.