Tuesday, January 19th 2010
A team of overclockers Sampsa and Stummerwinter set a new world-record score for 3DMark Vantage (Performance preset). The duo set the record using a test-bed made of Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, four ASUS ATI Radeon HD 5870 in CrossFireX mode, 6 GB of Corsair Dominator GTX2, and the upcoming ASUS Rampage III Extreme motherboard to seat it all.

The Core i7 975 XE processor sailed through to 5508.9 MHz (27 x 204 MHz @ 1.664V, HTT on), with the memory running at 2040 MHz DDR (7-8-7-21). The four ASUS Radeon HD 5870 cards were hand-picked from a batch of 18 pieces. Core/memory speeds of 1325 MHz / 1300 MHz, were set. Catalyst drivers version 9.12 were used for the record feat.

The team achieved a 3DMark Vantage score of P47002, with a GPU score of 53,911 points, and CPU score of 33,949. To cool the machine, F1 EE & Tek 9.0 liquid nitrogen evapourators were used for the GPUs and CPU. The duo credit their success (besides their skills), to Kinc and Christian from ASUS and Thomas from Intel.

posted by btarunr - 7:08 PM |  Related News

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by Easo (7:21 PM) - Reply
Wow! ^^
by aCid888* (7:27 PM) - Reply
Ridiculous cooling....ridiculous score, very nice. :toast:
by sapetto (7:37 PM) - Reply
I see Techpowerup GPUTool on the second pic :P
by Kenshai (7:39 PM) - Reply
Anyone else think the 8500gt on the shelf is kind of ironic?
by InnocentCriminal (7:43 PM) - Reply
This is officially the highest Vantage score until...
by theorw (8:13 PM) - Reply
WOW MOST UNEXPECTED The record is broken by ati cards again ... How about 2 5970s??????
by krisna159 (8:21 PM) - Reply
wow awesome result....specialy with Red side:toast::toast:..iam wondering how about the GF100 performance????:confused:
by Assassin48 (8:26 PM) - Reply
by: theorw
WOW MOST UNEXPECTED The record is broken by ati cards again ... How about 2 5970s??????
4x 5870 scale better then 2x 5890
by PP Mguire (8:34 PM) - Reply
Dominator GTX2 but yet run them at 2000? They can probably do 2200 with those timings :shadedshu
by cdawall (9:51 PM) - Reply
by: InnocentCriminal
This is officially the highest Vantage score until...
doesn't count towards real benchmarks its an ES cpu
by [H]@RD5TUFF (9:59 PM) - Reply
Pretty amazing thing to do.
by: Kenshai
Anyone else think the 8500gt on the shelf is kind of ironic?
No
by cdawall (10:07 PM) - Reply
by: [H]@RD5TUFF
Pretty amazing thing to do. No
seconding this one alot of people use low end cards to test out none 3D based benchmarking systems
by InnocentCriminal (10:19 PM) - Reply
by: cdawall
doesn't count towards real benchmarks its an ES cpu
I know, but my point was that the score Bta has posted will most likely be superseded when the 980X is officially released.
by SystemViper (11:02 PM) - Reply
wow that is some effort by those guys, managing 5 LN2 pots while beating hte crap out of cutting edge hardware, that is friggin priceless..... me wants to play in that sandbox. top notch work there!~
by pr0n Inspector (2:14 AM) - Reply
Bah! LN2 cooling equipments are well made and methods are well researched, it's getting more and more boring these days.
by PP Mguire (2:29 AM) - Reply
I agree with pron. Its one thing to get these scores under such extreme cooling. Lets start breaking world records under conventional cooling. Then ill be impressed.
by HossHuge (3:14 AM) - Reply
how much would that system cost?
by ..'Ant'.. (5:59 AM) - Reply
Thats an insane score!!!!
by Hayder_Master (6:38 AM) - Reply
i guess they run some nvidia high GPU read like 9600GT for physics score
by Assassin48 (6:42 AM) - Reply
by: hayder.master
i guess they run some nvidia high GPU read like 9600GT for physics score
Its against the rules to use PhysX on the bot Those scores are from hours and hours trying to find the right 5870 to run in the bench
by Hunt3r (8:38 AM) - Reply
very nice ;D
by W1zzard (8:39 AM) - Reply
by: sapetto
I see Techpowerup GPUTool on the second pic :P
yes, the pros get updated builds for their work
by smartali89 (9:00 AM) - Reply
by: PP Mguire
I agree with pron. Its one thing to get these scores under such extreme cooling. Lets start breaking world records under conventional cooling. Then ill be impressed.
Agreed :rockout:, if conventional cooling was considered i might hit some records too :laugh: :p
by InnocentCriminal (9:13 AM) - Reply
Get on it team TPU.... go, go now, go go go!
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