Friday, September 4th 2015
EVGA Z170 Classified, GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N and 1600W T2 Set Unigine Heaven Record
Extreme Overclocker Vince "K|NGP|N" Lucido has once again raised the bar with a new Unigine Heaven Xtreme World Record, a popular stress test and benchmark, using EVGA hardware. Armed with the new EVGA Z170 Classified motherboard, a GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N graphics card and an EVGA 1600W PSU, Vince was able to get a score of 7,893.7, a new Single Card World Record!
Vince was able to overclock his Liquid Nitrogen Cooled Intel 6700K CPU up to 5.8GHz, and his EVGA GTX 980 Ti graphics card at over 2 GHz, allowing him to obtain this new World Record. This new World Record continues EVGA's tradition of providing only the best hardware for overclockers, enthusiasts and gamers. See more details about this new World Record here.
Vince was able to overclock his Liquid Nitrogen Cooled Intel 6700K CPU up to 5.8GHz, and his EVGA GTX 980 Ti graphics card at over 2 GHz, allowing him to obtain this new World Record. This new World Record continues EVGA's tradition of providing only the best hardware for overclockers, enthusiasts and gamers. See more details about this new World Record here.
13 Comments on EVGA Z170 Classified, GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N and 1600W T2 Set Unigine Heaven Record
As soon as you slap a famous enthusiasts name on it - you see all these actual healthy comments.
I wonder what is the reason for the different attitudes...as I see no real world benefits from doing this too - but personally I think record breaking is news worthy.
I mean, I know it's all utterly pointless for any practical use, but a part of me always get's excited to see such records, because it's all about reaching the absolute limit of the silicon and design.. this is where you start seeing where stuff like signal propagation/delay, buffering, pipeline length etc all start coming into play to quite effectively put a hard cap on maximum clock rates, and so I keep my opinion to myself.
Also, link to those skylake threads?
I just don't understand the negative opinions towards to other ones - current at work..will find the link after my Friday night drinks or I probably will forget all about this in a few hours time..
For instance, it is impossible to evaluate a GTX 980 Ti Lightning without running LN2 on it. Much like you can't do a review on a Ariel Atom by driving it to your local shopping mall or parking it at the club. You're missing the point entirely. Within the limits of air cooled testing, all GM2xx GPUs will have the same limit from reference to the most exotic.
LN2 testing is a must and that is where all the additional engineering effort makes a difference. Much like you can't take the ROG Maximus VIII Extreme and review it using AIO coolers. A CPU that is stuck at 4.8GHz will remain there, regardless of the motherboard it is installed upon. From BIOSTAR to ROG, they will all show the CPU limit at 4.8GHz. The difference is at the extreme competitive level where having the LN2 mode, slow mode, initial voltage settings/ standby voltage, OC-Socket etc make a difference. (How many reviews of X99 motherboards didn't mention UNCORE? which was the sole purpose of the OC-Socket)
Such a product isn't meant to be beneficial for daily use. Much like you could make the argument that a Prius can do what a Pagani Zonda R can as well. Of course, if all you're doing is driving to the Starbucks in the city or what have you. You need to get on the track and unleash it. That's where all the engineering pedigree is put to the test, where the difference between the Prius and the hyper car are made evident. That is where the perfect weight balance, down force, power, torque, suspension etc. come together to produce something special.
This card like the 980Ti Lightning, are exactly that. Pedestrian level testing isn't good enough. Slap a Raptor or Tek9 on that and then see what it does. That's where the fun begins :)
this result shows that this GPU can go the distance. Best of all it needs no mods at all. there isn't another card that works like this.