It didn’t take long before Kinc (Marcus Hultin) and crotale (Robert Kihlberg) set the bar for the Battle of the North happening at DreamHack Winter 2008. Even if it is not the same type of competition we have been covering earlier this year the spirit is the same, not giving in before records have fallen. Both Kinc and crotale are used to overclocking Live, especially at DreamHack, has have a long list of world records on their list of merits.
It has turned out that these merits, good hardware and tons of liquid nitrogen was the ingredients needed to come through. They were very close to breaking the unofficial world record in 3DMark Vantage, Performance preset, during the first day, earlier set by overclocker Shamino. Futuremark’s ORB doesn’t accept results with the current drivers for the Core i7 platform, but Shamino’s world record was 36,140 points in Vantage Performance preset. An impressive record that did not scare off our Swedish team of overclockers. They managed to break the world record and improve it on the same evening. The new world record is now 36,302 points.
Sampsa from Team Finland doesn’t seem to have any greater hopes of reaching the same level of results, mainly due to a noticeably worse processor. Kinc and crotale have pushed their Core i7 Extreme Q965 CPU to about 4.9GHz during their tests, while Team Finland have had to settle for a processor maxing out at 4.7GHz.
There is still a long way to go before the competition ends, and even though is starting to feel more or less over we might see some slightly better toward the end, we know at least two persons who are going to do their best to improve their score.
