New 3DMark 11 World Record Set By MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) Motherboard in Futuremark's Operation: Overclock Competition

January 20, 2012

New 3DMark 11 World Record Set By MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) Motherboard in Futuremark's Operation: Overclock Competition


HELSINKI, FINLAND – January 19, 2012 – Futuremark® today announced the winners of its latest overclocking contest, sponsored by MSI, Kingston, Enermax and Cougar. Singapore overclocker Spyboy48 emerged with the best score that is now the official world record for 3DMark 11 Physics score.

The new record score, 19 090, set with an Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor and MSI X79A-GD65 motherboard is a great achievement in overclocking skill. At stock settings, a similar system would get a score of about 11 000, so Spyboy48 improved the CPU performance of his system by almost 75%.

The level of competition in the contest was extremely high with 8 different overclockers scoring over 18 000. In Futuremark's official 3DMark 11 Physics score Hall of Fame 7 out of the top 10 results are from this contest.

CONTEST WINNERS

Prizes were awarded on a weekly basis with the three best scores receiving prizes each week. Each contestant was limited to one win for each of the three prize packages with two contestants, Spyboy48 and Indonesian overclocker Lucky_n00b, managing to win all three with top 3 scores on three of the four weeks:

Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4
1st prizeLucky_n00bSpyboy48Green-CougarHazzan
2nd prizeSpyboy48ColdestLucky_n00bGreen-Cougar
3rd prizeColdestLucky_n00bSpyboy48Perica_barii

ABOUT 3DMARK 11

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world's most popular benchmark and PC test. Designed to measure your PC's gaming performance 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. 3DMark 11 Basic Edition can be downloaded free from http://www.3dmark.com

ABOUT 3DMARK 11 Physics Score Hall of Fame

The dedicated Physics Test of 3DMark 11 uses intensive rigid-body physics simulation to measure your computer's processing power, too. The Physics Test score is linked to the speed and number of cores in your processor. PCs with fast, multi-core processors score well, while overclocking your CPU can boost your score even higher.

Futuremark's official Hall of Fame features the highest Physics scores validated by the benchmark developer using commercially available PC components. Futuremark's database is the most comprehensive collection of 3DMark 11 benchmark data featuring over 2 million publicly viewable results.
http://www.3dmark.com/hall-of-fame/3dmark-11-physics-score-top-20/


About Futuremark® Corporation

Futuremark® Corporation creates the world's most popular benchmarks and PC performance tests. Futuremark's free 3DMark®, PCMark® and Peacekeeper™ tests have helped millions of people measure and improve their PCs' performance for games, media, applications and the web.

Futuremark Games Studio creates original games with new and entertaining gameplay. The studio has just released Unstoppable Gorg for PC, Mac and iPad® with Xbox LIVE® Arcade version released later this year. Futuremark has offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland. http://www.futuremark.com/

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Jukka Mäkinen, CEO, Futuremark
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Email: jukka at futuremark dot com

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Email: ollie at futuremark dot com

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