X79 4-way SLI System Sets New 3DMark11 Record, X12,554

Earlier this week, renowned extreme overclocker Vince "K|NGP|N" Lucido broke yet another 3DMark record by scoring X12554 in 3DMark11. The ace up his sleeve was the "CLASSIFIED" series of graphics cards and motherboards from EVGA.

In order to get a score of X12,554 in 3DMark 11X (Extreme preset) he had to do some 4-WAY SLI benching. The former 3d11X record on previous generation chipset(X58) that stood for over 1/2 a year was X11,474 which was done using EVGA CLASSIFIED SR-2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 and QUAD SLI technology. When X79 launched recently, that score was broken at around X12.2k. The newest score of X12,554 that was done was on EVGA’s new E779 X79 CLASSIFIED 4-Way SLI motherboard and EVGA’s CLASSIFIED GeForce GTX 580 ULTRA. This is the current top score in 3D11 Extreme.

Vince "K|NGP|N" Lucido  said he had clockspeeds about 5.3GHz for CPU and for GPU’s 1300MHz core frequency and 2400MHz memory frequency for GTX 580’s (4) in QUAD SLI.

The new X79 Chipset on EVGA’s E779 CLASSIFIED motherboard helped as its quite powerful in 3DMark 11 particularly in last two tests (physics/combined). Because this is 3D11X (Extreme preset) which runs on higher resolution and it really is all about GPU power, the GTX 580 clocks were much more of a factor in getting the final score that I did. My previous 3D11X score was at 1200MHz core frequency on NVIDIA GTX 580 Reference cards in QUAD SLI. The new one is at 1300MHz.

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