luv2increase

It is about time 60000 was broken...  The old record was with Shamino and 4 x 5870s in Quad-Fire on the 4-way Classified board, wasn't it?

Congrats Shamino!


EDIT: Notice they used "vanilla" 480s :)

I was going to comment on that. 1050 MHZ seems a little low for World Record OC run done on LN2. I remember Shamino posted a thread on here before the official release with a Fermi card at like 1300 MHZ or something like that.

Or maybe they were just testing out the setup, and haven't done a rigorous test of how fast the cards can go.

daniel.netwal
What's the longevity of a system cooled with liquid Nitrogen?  Or at that level of enthusiast, does one even care anymore?

They definitely care, just the point isn't everyday stability.
 
While there are nitrogen-filled phase change coolers in existence, they are the size of cars and meant for industrial use, i.e. not practical for everyday regular enthusiast use.  When people go for World Record runs with LN2, they use dewars filled with a few gallons and have less than a day (sometimes hours) to do what they do before the stuff evaporates. 
 
Sincs computer are made up of thousands of little parts that are in reality only rated for stock use, running them much faster with more amperage definitely cuts the longivity.  But total lifespan will depend on the weakest part, not the most robust.  Mathematically, we can say 9 months minimum (as lifespan is porportional to frequency increase squared again the warranty period), but realistically I wouldn't say longer than just one month, maybe a matter of weeks before some part fails.  It could be a trace or capacitor on the motherboard.
 
Note, long before physical damage, something will get corrupted and data will be lost.  It's the whole reason we do stress test like 95 or LinX -- no one does this for WR runs, there isn't enough cryogenic for it.  And what would be the point?  Many folks here assume if their overclock can withstand a whole day of 100%, then they call it stable -- it isn't in reality, it will eventually kick, earlier than if left alone.  They just don't care using the justification they'll upgrade before it happens.  But the higher you crank it, the lifespan drops considerably.  The point for these benchmark runs is to be stable long enough to grab numbers or verification, the system may not endure 100% load on all CPU cores or GPUs to max for hours longer than necessary.
 
Take an auto analogy, there are speed limits and many people speed.  But not many will run their car's engine into redline breifly enough to brag and survive.  If you blow the engine you're not going to have much to say, if you survive.  I think few have died while overclocking (like electrocution), but if the system blows (like a short or bad batch reaction), that's thousands of dollars/euro down the drain.  So they definitely care about that investment, they don't pour the stuff and hope for the best.  They know what their doing.  Shamino for instance is an electrical engineer, IIRC, he helped EVGA make the SR-2.

Thats one hell of a way to break a record.  9k is a ton from what was the last highest posted. Great Job.

Outstanding job. EVGA is number 1 again.

I wonder how fast the score is broken after the rest of the world has the ability to buy the same hardware. nice scores but who else can even try to beat them? ie: we can't buy a sr-2 mb :(

Cool stuff! Nice job guys.

Moltenlava

Who would have guessed that 4 GTX 480's on a Dual CPU motherboard using 2 6-cores would have broken the 3D Mark Record... yawn.

The score is very nice, but i am inclined to agree,

You brought a tear to my eye. Now I want one of those boards :-( . Amazing stuff guys, keep it up !!

Haha, this pics are never pretty. Still, it looks epic.

They are benching live right now
http://www.livestream.com/kingpincooling

what i find the most impressive is a 30k X score

thats where your pushing the system to its utmost!

*drools oversledgehammers head*

Why didn't they bump up the memory on the cards? Just wondering.

EVGA_JacobF

i couldn't see the motherboard anymore ROFLMAO

great results.

Captain Kirk "Scotty we need more power!!"

Scotty "I'm giving her all she's got, Captain!!!"

LOL, shamino dropped(and broke) both raptors... NICE...