EVGA Z170 Classified, GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N and 1600W T2 Set Unigine Heaven Record

[btarunr]

Extreme Overclocker Vince "K|NGP|N" Lucido has once again raised the bar with a new Unigine Heaven Xtreme World Record, a popular stress test and benchmark, using EVGA hardware. Armed with the new EVGA Z170 Classified motherboard, a GTX 980 Ti K|NGP|N graphics card and an EVGA 1600W PSU, Vince was able to get a score of 7,893.7, a new Single Card World Record!

Vince was able to overclock his Liquid Nitrogen Cooled Intel 6700K CPU up to 5.8GHz, and his EVGA GTX 980 Ti graphics card at over 2 GHz, allowing him to obtain this new World Record. This new World Record continues EVGA's tradition of providing only the best hardware for overclockers, enthusiasts and gamers. See more details about this new World Record here.



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[tabascosauz]

So the T2 1600 powered the CPU and board, while the NEX1500 Classified handled the graphics card? Interesting.

 

[Steven B]

So the T2 1600 powered the CPU and board, while the NEX1500 Classified handled the graphics card? Interesting.

Not sure of EVGA's PSus ratings or specs, but I would guess they picked one with no multiple rails for the GPU while the motherboard one has multiple rails.

 

[ZeDestructor]

Not sure of EVGA's PSus ratings or specs, but I would guess they picked one with no multiple rails for the GPU while the motherboard one has multiple rails.

They're both single-rail designs, with the NEX1500 having configurable OCP.

 

[gaximodo]

It's interesting some record breaking threads attracts a lot of opinions like 'there is no real world benefits from doing this.' - Like the ones about 7Ghz Skylake single core and 6.8 ghz sklylake four cores about a month ago.

As soon as you slap a famous enthusiasts name on it - you see all these actual healthy comments.

I wonder what is the reason for the different attitudes...as I see no real world benefits from doing this too - but personally I think record breaking is news worthy.

 

[ZeDestructor]

It's interesting some record breaking threads attracts a lot of opinions like 'there is no real world benefits from doing this.' - Like the ones about 7Ghz Skylake single core and 6.8 ghz sklylake four cores about a month ago.

As soon as you slap a famous enthusiasts name on it - you see all these actual healthy comments.

I wonder what is the reason for the different attitudes...as I see no real world benefits from doing this too - but personally I think record breaking is news worthy.

Don't ask me..

I mean, I know it's all utterly pointless for any practical use, but a part of me always get's excited to see such records, because it's all about reaching the absolute limit of the silicon and design.. this is where you start seeing where stuff like signal propagation/delay, buffering, pipeline length etc all start coming into play to quite effectively put a hard cap on maximum clock rates, and so I keep my opinion to myself.

Also, link to those skylake threads?

 

[gaximodo]

Don't ask me..

I mean, I know it's all utterly pointless for any practical use, but a part of me always get's excited to see such records, because it's all about reaching the absolute limit of the silicon and design.. this is where you start seeing where stuff like signal propagation/delay, buffering, pipeline length etc all start coming into play to quite effectively put a hard cap on maximum clock rates, and so I keep my opinion to myself.

Also, link to those skylake threads?

I totally agree with you, and I feel exactly the same way.

I just don't understand the negative opinions towards to other ones - current at work..will find the link after my Friday night drinks or I probably will forget all about this in a few hours time..

 

[P4-630]

Don't ask me..

I mean, I know it's all utterly pointless for any practical use, but a part of me always get's excited to see such records, because it's all about reaching the absolute limit of the silicon and design.. this is where you start seeing where stuff like signal propagation/delay, buffering, pipeline length etc all start coming into play to quite effectively put a hard cap on maximum clock rates, and so I keep my opinion to myself.

Also, link to those skylake threads?

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/intel-core-i7-6700k-‘skylake’-hits-nearly-7ghz.215393/

 

[silapakorn]

It would be really awkward if he achieved this result with other model of graphic card.

 

[Beertintedgoggles]

Why do they even bother with a computer power supply and not use standalone bench top power supplies? I can only guess it's for the sponsorship or advertising...

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Was overclocking the CPU beneficial? Last I looked into heaven benchmarking it didn't seem to respond to the cpu clocks.

It's interesting some record breaking threads attracts a lot of opinions like 'there is no real world benefits from doing this.' - Like the ones about 7Ghz Skylake single core and 6.8 ghz sklylake four cores about a month ago.

As soon as you slap a famous enthusiasts name on it - you see all these actual healthy comments.

I wonder what is the reason for the different attitudes...as I see no real world benefits from doing this too - but personally I think record breaking is news worthy.

I don't see that at all. If anything adding a big name to it just makes it worse. People cared about it back when it wasn't all about being sponsored, pay to win stuff, which was a very long time ago by now. That's why the appeal now if for overclocks we can all attain and use.

 

[buildzoid]

Was overclocking the CPU beneficial? Last I looked into heaven benchmarking it didn't seem to respond to the cpu clocks.



I don't see that at all. If anything adding a big name to it just makes it worse. People cared about it back when it wasn't all about being sponsored, pay to win stuff, which was a very long time ago by now. That's why the appeal now if for overclocks we can all attain and use.

I bench Heaven for HWbot and once you start going over 6000 points the CPU starts chocking your maximum FPS. Above 300FPS even my 5Ghz 3960X starts to bottleneck since the benchmark is heavily single threaded. To get this many points the GPU is probably pushing well into the 400FPS area and there the CPU could be quite a bottle neck.

 

[deified]

Pull those products from the shelf and Ill be impressed with those results. Other wise this is just in house product testing to me.

 

[ShockG]

Sadly, many review sites (not saying this one per se), have conflated the message about overclocking especially extreme overclocking and related products.
For instance, it is impossible to evaluate a GTX 980 Ti Lightning without running LN2 on it. Much like you can't do a review on a Ariel Atom by driving it to your local shopping mall or parking it at the club. You're missing the point entirely. Within the limits of air cooled testing, all GM2xx GPUs will have the same limit from reference to the most exotic.

LN2 testing is a must and that is where all the additional engineering effort makes a difference. Much like you can't take the ROG Maximus VIII Extreme and review it using AIO coolers. A CPU that is stuck at 4.8GHz will remain there, regardless of the motherboard it is installed upon. From BIOSTAR to ROG, they will all show the CPU limit at 4.8GHz. The difference is at the extreme competitive level where having the LN2 mode, slow mode, initial voltage settings/ standby voltage, OC-Socket etc make a difference. (How many reviews of X99 motherboards didn't mention UNCORE? which was the sole purpose of the OC-Socket)

Such a product isn't meant to be beneficial for daily use. Much like you could make the argument that a Prius can do what a Pagani Zonda R can as well. Of course, if all you're doing is driving to the Starbucks in the city or what have you. You need to get on the track and unleash it. That's where all the engineering pedigree is put to the test, where the difference between the Prius and the hyper car are made evident. That is where the perfect weight balance, down force, power, torque, suspension etc. come together to produce something special.

This card like the 980Ti Lightning, are exactly that. Pedestrian level testing isn't good enough. Slap a Raptor or Tek9 on that and then see what it does. That's where the fun begins
this result shows that this GPU can go the distance. Best of all it needs no mods at all. there isn't another card that works like this.