RECORD BREAKERS
What tumbled and went down, erm, recently...
n00b BREAKS RECORD AT GOOC
QUALIFIER
Gigabyte’s overclocking
championships passes through
23 countries and at least two
qualifying events have seen
world records fall. In Serbia,
Nikolas61 captured the GTX 260 PCMark Vantage record
with 15,120 points. However, a few days later fellow
countryman, Spacemaster scored 15,487.
More comically, Australia’s Ando420, who described his
graphics card as ‘crap’ and said that he ‘hated’ it, learned
that his air-cooled 3DMark 2001 score of 27,021 (made
with a mighty Radeon 3450) was actually a world record.
Kudos can be seen here.
XEON BREAKS 30 BORING RECORDS
AT LAUNCH
The good news is that Intel’s new Nehalem-based Xeon
processor, dubbed the 5500 series, broke 30 world
records on launch day at the end of March. The bad news
is that they’re the most boring server-related records
around and little-to-no tailored overclocking was
involved. More good news is that it won’t be long before
proper overclockers get their hands on these server
boards and we should be seeing some wPrime records
fall shortly. More here.
DeDaL BREAKS 6.8 SECONDS
Russian overclocker DeDaL used an E8600 at
6,642MHz to break the prestigious SuperPi 1M record
in record a time of 6.77s. The results is good news for
Socket 775 fans as it shows high-profi le overclockers
are still pushing the limits of the platform and its
CPUs. We’re still all waiting from an offi cial showing
from Team Japan, mind!
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SuperPi 32M CRACKED BY SMALL FRY
The prestigious Super Pi 32M record has been broken
a few times lately and with hardware that’s come out
of the shadows. AndreYang used DFI and A-DATA
products to topple the score in January thanks to a
UT X58 T3eH8 motherboard (we review the littlebrother
T3eH6 on page 32) and XPG X Series v2.0
RAM. However, his score of 6m 40s 360ms was
subsequently beaten by onepagebook, using the
same motherboard with Avantium Leopard RAM,
who shaved off almost two seconds.
GERMAN DUMPS k|ngp|n OFF
THRONE
Despite comments from Intel guru, Francois
Piednoel, that 3DMark 2001 is old and irrelevant
it continues to be one of the most prominent and
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