Kingpin Breaks Futuremark 3DMark 11 Extreme Benchmark World Record

By

Vince “k|ngp|n” Lucido is one of the worlds top overclockers out there right now. During a session in the test lab while working with some extreme cooling, he was able to break past the previous world record of around X12200 in Futuremark 3DMark 11 Extreme. During the Extreme overclocking session he was able to set a new world record of X12,554! The hardware he was using consisted of an EVGA E779 X79 Classified motherboard, Intel Core i7 3960X, and four of EVGAs CLASSIFIED GeForce GTX 580 ULTRA Graphics cards! K|ngp|n says that he’s not done yet, and will push to break the X13000 Score in the weeks to come! Best of luck!

Futuremark 3DMark 11 World Record

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular PC benchmark. This new benchmarks has a few preset settings within the tool to let you customize the benchmark to match the horsepower of the machine; the 3DMark 11 Extreme (X) setting is a true test for enthusiast hardware with a 1080P resolution, 4x MSAA, 16x Anisotropic Filtering and visuals that are cranked up.

While just doing some warmup runs on the brand new EVGA X79 Classified motherboard and 4x EVGA GTX 580 Classified graphic cards, Vince “k|ngp|n” Lucido scored a brand new 3DMark 11 Extreme (X) World Record. He was able to snag a score of over X12,500 points with the cards running at 1.3GHz Core clock and over 2400MHz Memory Clock.

Comments are closed.