For processors there was the
Xeon X-3175X, Core i9-9980XE and
Core Core i9-9900K and Core
i7-9600K. Motherboards were
covered by a range of boards
using the Intel C621, X299 and
Z390 chipsets, and power delivery
was taken care of by the massive
2,000-watt Zhenhua LEADEX P2000
Platinum flagship PSU.
In addition to this, there was also
the option of a 4-way SLI platform
using four GALAX GeForce GTX
1080 Ti Hall of Fame cards. This
is a configuration that is no longer
available with new cards, as the
GeForce RTX range of cards doesn't
support 4-way configurations.
On the first two days of the event,
the overclockers binned a multitude
of graphics cards and processors in
order to select the best of the best
for each benchmark. After two days
of non-stop binning and testing,
each overclocker found the specific
hardware they would use for their
world record attempts.
Prior to the event, multiple world
records in the HWBOT and 3DMark
Hall of Fame rankings were
dominated by the NVIDIA TITAN
RTX. If GALAX OC Lab managed to
use GeForce RTX 2080 Ti cards to
break the records held by the TITAN
RTX, it would prove that the Hall of
Fame OC Lab series graphics
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