Take a 6.14GHz Core-i7 990X, mix it with an ASUS Rampage III Extreme and a 1.5GHz clocked ASUS GeForce GTX 580 Direct CU II, then swirl in a load of LN2.
What do you get?
45,819 3DMarks and a new world record! That’s with a single graphics card!
Proof of the new world record
Kinc and elmor from Sweden broke the world record last weekend using this hardware and some manual volt-mods of their own. Complementing hardware include some kick-ass Kingston HyperX 2133 CL8, a top of the range Antec 1200W OC TP and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit to top it all off.
You can see a picture of the setup here:
Intel Core i7-990X, a Rampage III Extreme, GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II and a couple of LN2 pots
In fact, the ASUS GeForce GTX 580 Direct CU II seems to the the weapon of choice for many overclockers, as the top five slots are all held by this one card:
3DMark Vantage current top scores list
That’s not all from these guys though, because this weekend they are going for a new record with four of them in 4-way SLI! Keep an eye on how things take off over at Xtreme Systems.
4-way SLI: Oh yea!
Nick Holland
Nick Holland – Portability and PC gaming are essential to Nick’s life. He’s enjoyed the latter since a very young age – eschewing consoles for customizability of a PC (with the finest backbones like the Asus P3B-F and A7V133) and the feel of a keyboard and mouse. As soon as he could afford a notebook he got one and things have rolled on from there into sleek DTRs (desktop replacements) netbooks, smartphones and he’s already eyeing up the latest tablets while trying to think up an excuse to own one. After writing about all things tech for several years it is only natural he sought to join the already awesome TiS team.