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Tweaktown: Quad 5870s OCed + i7 980x OCed @ 5.8GHz (liquid nitrogen)
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/tweaktown-slathers-four-radeon-hd-5870s-in-liquid-nitrogen-crus/
"The PC hardware community recently discovered that quad-SLI was a huge waste of cash, so when we heard that TweakTown were stringing together four Radeon HD 5870s in a similar CrossFireX configuration, we figured they were about to throw away their time, too. Boy, were we wrong, because the hardware site never intended to seriously benchmark the rig as a viable gaming PC -- their intent was to make our jaws drop, and right now they're somewhere around our ankles. The contraption brought 3DMark03 to its knees with a soul-shattering score of 200,000 and achieved average framerates approaching a ludicrous four digits in Devil May Cry 4. How? Liquid nitrogen, of course. By attaching LN2-filled copper pots to each of the four already-powerful graphics cards and physically tacking on extra capacitors to direct the voltage, they bumped the Core i7-980X CPU clock to 5.8GHz and each GPU to 1250MHz, in what we think you'll agree is a healthy jump from 3.06 3.33GHz and 850MHz, respectively. Watch them build the mean machine after the break, and remember kids, don't try this at home."
"The PC hardware community recently discovered that quad-SLI was a huge waste of cash, so when we heard that TweakTown were stringing together four Radeon HD 5870s in a similar CrossFireX configuration, we figured they were about to throw away their time, too. Boy, were we wrong, because the hardware site never intended to seriously benchmark the rig as a viable gaming PC -- their intent was to make our jaws drop, and right now they're somewhere around our ankles. The contraption brought 3DMark03 to its knees with a soul-shattering score of 200,000 and achieved average framerates approaching a ludicrous four digits in Devil May Cry 4. How? Liquid nitrogen, of course. By attaching LN2-filled copper pots to each of the four already-powerful graphics cards and physically tacking on extra capacitors to direct the voltage, they bumped the Core i7-980X CPU clock to 5.8GHz and each GPU to 1250MHz, in what we think you'll agree is a healthy jump from 3.06 3.33GHz and 850MHz, respectively. Watch them build the mean machine after the break, and remember kids, don't try this at home."
Hot damn..why can't I get payed to do that?
It would have been cool if they had used a PIIx6 though. AMD+ATI breaking the 4Digits of FPS...great for marketing.
Nice find.
Now this one.. is a 24-core AMD Magny-Cours setup with 128GB of RAM. Apparently they're going to try a few games (comments). Should be interesting..
It would have been cool if they had used a PIIx6 though. AMD+ATI breaking the 4Digits of FPS...great for marketing.
Nice find.
Now this one.. is a 24-core AMD Magny-Cours setup with 128GB of RAM. Apparently they're going to try a few games (comments). Should be interesting..
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