3DMark Vantage, Intel Core i7 and GTX 295 Quad SLI meet
Vince "k|ngp|n" Lucido and Peter Tan "Shamino" crossed the dream limit of 40 thousand points with the help of a configuration that was sharpened to the extreme.
Although we shot the joke in the introduction to our writing, it is worth taking a closer look at the images below, as an unusual hardware set helped us achieve the P40398 score. At the end of December with an almost identical configuration, the guys from XFastest managed only P32573 in 3DMark Vantage, but the two gentlemen mentioned in the introduction surpassed even that by a lot. The nearly 8000 points extra is due to the use of LN2 (liquid nitrogen), which allowed the Intel Core i7 965 Extreme clock to be increased from 3,2 GHz to 5110 MHz, and the Quad SLI composition, which combines the power of four graphics processors, is also more extreme got overdrive. This EVGA GeForce GTX 295+ proved to be particularly tuning-friendly due to the "plus" suffix in its name: when setting the world record, the dual-core VGA 55 nanometer GPU ran at 1045, the 480 shader at 2090, and the 1792 MB GDDR3 memory ran at an effective 2504 MHz. Let's not forget about the other elements of the configuration: the aforementioned hardware was served by EVGA's X58 card, each of the three memory slots has a Kingston HyperX DDR2160 memory running at 8 MHz and operating with 7-7-21-3 timings finished.
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