X99 SOC CHAMPION
CONTINUES TO IMPRESS
Since last December, the GIGABYTE X99 SOC
Champion has played a significant role in
helping reach class leading scores and some
overclocking world records. The motherboard
hasn’t been available everywhere, but
vapourware or special vendor shenanigans
it is not. Co-incidentally it was the same
motherboard used by Steponz in his 3DMark
Fire Strike Extreme top score as well. It’s also
proving to be more than capable in other areas
as well. If you follow the SuperPi 32M low clock
challenge, you’ll that it has the leading time for
the platform . Achieved by Dinos22 at 5 minutes
and 55.922 seconds. Not to mention the 2D
benchmark dominance by Sofos1990.
WORLD RECORD TICKER
As for World Records, many of these are not new but
we have been counting how many each vendor has
in 3D Benchmarks. Taking only into account the GPU
or better yet GPUs used for each one. Obviously just
about any GPU can be modified with any one of the
PWM boards that are available, resulting in plenty of
power and the ability to clock the core and memory
much higher. Since that option is available to every
GPU vendor and overclocker, we consider this a fair
representation of the component or at the very least
how far each vendor is willing to go to have their
claim at a real world record.
EVGA, GIGABYTE and GALAX are tied with three
world records each. The EVGA results helmed by
k|ngp|n himself of course, via 3DMark Fire Strike
and 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme. Dancop taking the
legacy 3DMark06 honours. All done with the GTX 980
Classified. GIGABYTE taking the 3DMark Vantage
Performance, 3DMark05 and 3DMark11 records, all
done by Team AU on the G1 Gaming cards, modified
with the G-Power board.
GALAX at present owns CATZILLA in both
disciplines thanks to 8 Pack and the Hall Of Fame GTX
980. ASUS claims two more as well via TeamAU and
finally we have MSI leading the Unigine Heaven
Heaven Preset in the capable hands of 8 Pack.
vendors and all those involved in curbing the World
Record claims which had until recently gotten out of
control. With the new measurements in place, we
have much fewer records and the ones that do exist
mean something that all can relate to. Simply put,
the best performance in a particular test or series
of tests. It is a vast improvement over what used to
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