Monday, February 21st 2011
Elmor and Kinc Run ASUS GeForce GTX 580 at 1504/3008/5012 MHz, Set New Vantage Record
Renowned overclockers elmor and Kinc did the unthinkable, breaching the 1500 MHz barrier for the core (geometry domain) clock speed of GeForce GTX 580. Using ASUS EN580GTX DirectCu graphics card, the duo managed to achieve 1504 MHz core, 3008 MHz CUDA cores, and 1253 MHz (5012 MHz GDDR5 effective) memory, churning out 240.6 GB/s memory bandwidth. With this in single-card configuration, the testbed consisting of Intel Core i7-990X clocked at 6.14 GHz and 6 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1750 MHz, and ASUS Rampage III Extreme motherboard, the duo achieved a 3DMark Vantage score of P45819 (performance preset), setting a new record.
The bench was powered by a 1200W Antec HCP PSU, the graphics card ran with a whopping 1.62V vGPU, and 1.86V vMem, it is estimated that the graphics card drew 600W (12V, 50A) of power in itself. The CPU and graphics card were cooled using liquid nitrogen evaporators, the GPU VRM was directly air-cooled, using a high-flow fan. A number of hard volt-mods were employed to achieve those voltages.
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The bench was powered by a 1200W Antec HCP PSU, the graphics card ran with a whopping 1.62V vGPU, and 1.86V vMem, it is estimated that the graphics card drew 600W (12V, 50A) of power in itself. The CPU and graphics card were cooled using liquid nitrogen evaporators, the GPU VRM was directly air-cooled, using a high-flow fan. A number of hard volt-mods were employed to achieve those voltages.
45 Comments on Elmor and Kinc Run ASUS GeForce GTX 580 at 1504/3008/5012 MHz, Set New Vantage Record
and i wnat crysis run? 70fps avg? xd
It's like questioning:... It's because they can and they're willing to go break the limit. Kinc and Elmor just decided to go beyond breaking the limit, that's all.
LOL, people are being pessimistic for no reason.
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1504
Seriously?
All the people complaining about how pointless this is i have to ask, do you complain when people set land speed records? :p
They set the mark that everydayers (possible new word) strive to reach using more practical means. Besides most of our systems are way more powerful than what we use them for. its just in our nature to go faster, fly higher and just push everything to its limits.
gotta love the kingpin pots though can't wait till i got parts to clock up again good job elmor. also very clean vmod on the 580 you can barely see the pot dangling off of it.
How many thousand dollar chips are wasted for this kind of hobby?
C'mon, spend your knowledge and money in something like folding@home or WCG.
must be hugely satisfying to set a world record too, overclocking is rewarding enough without an actual reward.
We do it for the adrenaline rush. Belive ir or not but it is a real kick to see the fps doubble from stock. And smell the odor from overloaded mosfets as every passive component of the PSU and VGAs power-area squeal.The picture is taken form one of the testruns were we just quickly test it t oget a feel for how cold we can run it etc. When we ran it for real we had the orignal heat sink screwed on with a fan directly on it. The cold spread throught the copper in the pcb also helps a lot.
Like W1zzard shows in his review here: www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_580_Direct_Cu_II/images/cooler5.jpg