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NH|Delph1
05-27-2007, 08:49 AM
I know it's not a world record, but still pretty damn good, especially considering all the trouble they went through and the fact the cards are barely overclocked (Kinc didn't even want to call them that ;)).


Marcus 'Kinc' Hultin and last year's Price/Performance winner Jon 'Elmor' Sandström has been playing with NVIDIA's latest monster card GeForce 8800 Ultra this weekend. As usual when these two are at it we're talking extreme overclocking and cooling of the same league. An Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700, one ASUS Striker Extreme and two ASUS GeForce 8800 Ultra SLI was equipped with liquid nitrogen container, Vaseline and was then overclocked. Unfortunately, not all of the components wanted to play along, which limited Marcus and Jon somewhat, but they still managed to reach rather respectable 24604 points. This is the highest registered score at the ORB, but Kingpin has reached just more than 25,000.

The graphics card ran at 800/1200Mhz (1,5V) since they were mainly focusing on testing the processor, far from what the cards are capable of. Ultra has displayed potential of more than 1GHz GPU in SLI and this is something that we will probably see the coming weekend. The processor was pushed to more than 5GHz, but unfortunately the motherboard didn't want to play along for any longer periods. This is the first time someone has pushed a quad-core (read Kentsfield) to more than 5GHz together with GeForce 8800 Ultra in 3DMark 06. Kingpin's record was set at 4880MHz.

Keep your eyes open, there's more coming...

Source: NordicHardware (http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6422.html)

Elmor will post more info about this in a moment.

//Andreas

perkam
05-27-2007, 11:32 AM
Kinc with an Ultra = pwnage.

The "King" has it easy atm as Sampsa and Kinc have been trying to extract as much as possible from the X2900XT...with premature drivers/oc software.

This may get interesting :D

Perkam

NH|Delph1
05-27-2007, 12:03 PM
Elmor has some more information for you all to drool over ;)

He'll post it as soon as he gets home. :)

//Andreas

perkam
05-27-2007, 12:06 PM
Looking forward to it :)

Thread title edited for clarity :)

Perkam

NH|Delph1
05-27-2007, 12:20 PM
Thanks, but it's actually two Ultras, SLI ;)

You'll see when Elmor gets here :)

//Andreas

Zytek_Fan
05-27-2007, 12:32 PM
Too bad the Ultra is $800 :(

DeathReborn
05-27-2007, 01:21 PM
It does seem like there's a fair few Ultras out there, a lot more than the "tens" some said there would be.

Looking good on the overclocks & scores. :up:

Trouffman
05-27-2007, 03:28 PM
Eh Eh Congrats Again Kinc and Elmor \o/ !

Nice to see ln2 again !!!

lawrywild
05-27-2007, 03:48 PM
Kinc with an Ultra = pwnage.

The "King" has it easy atm as Sampsa and Kinc have been trying to extract as much as possible from the X2900XT...with premature drivers/oc software.

This may get interesting :D

Perkam

You forgot Sham?

afireinside
05-27-2007, 04:24 PM
Too bad the Ultra is $800 :(

Tell me about it :( They're such amazing cards but the prices are locked at 800. Way to much...

xsbb
05-27-2007, 05:22 PM
Definitely looking forward to more of the action.

DilTech
05-27-2007, 05:28 PM
Tell me about it :( They're such amazing cards but the prices are locked at 800. Way to much...

If they ever get some competition, the price will likely drop... The keyword though, unfortunately, is the "if".

Bounc3y
05-27-2007, 05:47 PM
If they ever get some competition, the price will likely drop... The keyword though, unfortunately, is the "if".

sad but true.. we'll just have to wait i guess..

xsbb
05-27-2007, 08:32 PM
..and hopefully the price drop will be soon. I know most of us here are itching for some upgrades

saaya
05-28-2007, 03:17 AM
nice! :toast:

NH|Delph1
05-28-2007, 06:20 AM
There's more info here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2216398#post2216398

Perhaps lock this one and continue the discussion there?

//Andreas

saaya
05-28-2007, 06:34 AM
why lock this one? :)

NH|Delph1
05-28-2007, 06:43 AM
I just don't wanna steal their thunder, but I guess you're right :)

//Andreas