Speed in top gear
A team caught no less than 4 Geforce GTX 580s working together.
Awesome and amazing performance. Perhaps these words best describe what the people at xfastest.com accomplished, as they bundled no less than 4 Geforce GTX 580 video cards into an SLI system, despite the fact that NVIDIA supports up to three-card SLI systems for this product. The test machine’s processor was an Intel Core i7-950, which peaked on an ASUS Rampage III Extreme board and was pulled up to 4,35 GHz. Each of the four monsters was of the same type, namely the Inno 3D GeFroce GTX 580 Overclocking Edition, which is already a factory-tuned specimen. The GPU / Shader / Memory clock was 805 / 1.610 / 4.200 MHz, respectively. With this, the people of Xfastest were, of course, not satisfied and raised the frequencies further, thus getting the 925 / 1.850 / 4.600 MHz clock signals. The right amount of power was provided by a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold and a Huntkey power supply. The output power is 1.200 watts for the former and 900 watts for the latter.
For measurement, the 3D Mark Vantage software was deployed, where the system scored 63.343 points in the Performance-Preset test, while turning off PhysX, this value changed to 46.216 points. However, they still hadn’t stood there yet and switched the four monsters a little higher, getting the final clock signals of 940 / 1.880 / 4.600 MHz. After that, the scores were changed to 63.648 and 46.552.
Unfortunately, more information has not yet been received about this experiment, which is a great pity, as the consumption values also included frightening numbers.
