The scoreboard lit up big today with a monster score from the team down under pushing the former WR set by Steponz and dinos22 during GIGABYTE booth OC session at CES2014 by a whopping 200 points to fall just shy of the all illusive 9,000 points.
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Some news from HWBOT.ORG just in with HiCookie taking out the single card Unigine Heaven world record using the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC and R9 290X GPU.
Just so you know, the following keys are fading away on my keyboard: R, E, C, O, and D. Why? Because there are so many Orceds to write about. Just now, Hicookie from Gigabyte has submitted the WR for 1xGPU Heaven DX11. He clocked the Radeon R9 290X to 1355/1725 MHz and beat Sofos1990 by almost 40 points. He was struggling with the efficiency for a very long time. In fact, that's what prevented him from taking the record at the CES'14 overclocking event.
The record is set with an interesting combination of hardware too. At least, interesting for the companies supporting the development of HWBOT. Hicookie used an Intel CPU, GIGABYTE motherboard and graphics card, an SSD and memory from G.SKILL and an Enermax power supply. Cool! But of course all records are created equally and we congratulated 8 Pack when breaking records on non-partner hardware as much as we congratulate Hicookie today! ;-).
You may well be aware of that GIGABYTE held an Overclocking contest during CES a few weeks ago, we called it the CES 2014 Extreme OC Event – seemed a good name for it. Anyway, one thing you may not be aware of is that during some pretty grueling and lengthy benching sessions, we saw three world record tumble; Cinebench 11.5, Uningine Heaven and 3DMark06. Check out the details below.
Cinebench 11.5 – CPU 4x World Record - Vivi
http://hwbot.org/submission/2479643
Unigine Heaven Extreme – GPU x4 Word Record - STEPONZ
http://hwbot.org/submission/2479579
3DMark06 – GPU x1 World Record – Vivi
http://hwbot.org/submission/2480831
Official Press Release here.
