MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti Hawk is a well equipped card for the upper mid-range and the enthusiast friendly card has been pushed to its very limits. In the hands of Massman the GPU was pushed to 1500 MHz, a new record that makes the stock frequency of 822 MHz look rather sad.
To push the card to these levels he needed to use unhealthy voltages for both GPU and memory, and 20 liter of liquid nitrogen to keep the temperatures around -135°C. The end result was beside a record high GPU frequency also a couple of heavy record in 3DMark 11 (P7611), Vantage (P31309) and Unigine Heaven (Xtreme 1652).
The system specifications can be found below.
System specifications:
- Intel Core i7 990X
- SF3D Inflection Point (keep CPU temp ~ 20°C)
- GIGABYTE X58A-OC
- 3x 2GB ADATA XPG+ series
- MSI GTX 560 Ti Hawk (1.52V GPU, 1.98V mem)
- Ryba Fat Pot
- Coolermaster 1000W PSU
More information at the HWbot forum.
