Marcus ‘Kinc’ Hultin and last year’s Price/Performance winner Jon ‘Elmor’ Sandström has been playing with NVIDIA’s latest monster card GeForce 8800 Ultra this weekend. As usual when these two are at it we’re talking extreme overclocking and cooling of the same league. An Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700, one ASUS Striker Extreme and two ASUS GeForce 8800 Ultra SLI was equipped with liquid nitrogen container, Vaseline and was then overclocked. Unfortunately, not all of the components wanted to play along, which limited Marcus and Jon somewhat, but they still managed to reach rather respectable 24604 points. This is the highest registered score at the ORB, but Kingpin has reached just more than 25,000.
The graphics card ran at 800/1200Mhz (1,5V) since they were mainly focusing on testing the processor, far from what the cards are capable of. Ultra has displayed potential of more than 1GHz GPU in SLI and this is something that we will probably see the coming weekend. The processor was pushed to more than 5GHz, but unfortunately the motherboard didn’t want to play along for any longer periods. This is the first time someone has pushed a quad-core (read Kentsfield) to more than 5GHz together with GeForce 8800 Ultra in 3DMark 06. Kingpin’s record was set at 4880MHz.
Keep your eyes open, there’s more coming…
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3DMark 06: 24,604 Points
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