After another session of hardcore overclocking our fellow overclockers in Team Finland, consisting of Petri “SF3D” Korhonen Sampsa Kurri and Sami “macci” Mäkinen, managed to break the 3DMark 06 world record using AMD’s Phenom II X4 on the new AM3 platform. As you perhaps know by now, these babies low cold, not just regular -80-100°C, but far beyond -200°C is like cloud nine for these things.
By pushing the AMD Phenom II X4 processor to 6187MHz under liquid nitrogen, no helium needed this time, as low as it was possible (around -190°C) and the two Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards to 870MHz on the GPU and 950MHz on the memory, still with stock coolers, Team Finland managed to claim the top spot of the 3DMark 06 ladder.
The complete system specifications:
AMD Phenom II X4 6187MHz (4500MHz NB) under Dragon F1EE pot
ASUS M4A79T Deluxe (790FX chipset)
Corsair XMS3-2133 2x1GB DDR3-1800 CL7-7-7-1T
2x Radeon HD 4870 X2 830/950MHz with stock cooling
Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W
Tagan BZ 1300W
It’s the first time in ages that AMD could be found at the top of the Hall of Fame. A big Congratulations goes out to Team Finland and its members for their tremendous effort and remarkable achievement. The score landed at 35,698 points, an improvement of about 150 points from the last record.
Below are a video and a couple of pictures. We recommend the video for some cool (no pun intended) footage of boiling liquid nitrogen and the Finnish national anthem (it’s really not, but still a decent song).
