A new record in Custom PC's benchmarks - 2288

Posted at: 12:18pm 24th January 2008 by Ben Hardwidge

The benchmeister Maverik-SG1 uses his daughter's bedroom to house a record breaking cooling system

You might think that your case fans and GPU cooler spin up and make an unreasonable amount of noise when you're playing a game, but at least your PC isn't so loud tat your neighbours come round to complain. That's what happened when the whines and vibrations of Andrew 'Maverik-SG1' Edwards' rotary cascade cooler were in full swing last weekend. The good news, though, is that it was all worth it, as it produced an awesome new benchmark result in the Custom PC benchmarks of 2,288, with an incredible score of 3,305 in our video encoding benchmark.

Edwards' set up a top rig for the experiment, including an Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard, which had been volt-modded by Persivore, and two 1GB sticks of Corsair PC3-14400 (1,800MHz) RAM with solid timings of 7-6-7-24, which were kindly provided by Corsair. As well as this, Edwards used an I-RAM drive, while the star of the show was a Core 2 Extreme QX9650.

With his rotary cascade cooler set up in his daughter's bedroom, Edwards managed to overclock the CPU to almost 5.4GHz (5,398MHz), although this didn't prove to be stable. Nevertheless, a stable overclock of 5.2GHz allowed the system to storm through our benchmark suite. For more details, check out the forum at UK hardcore benchmarking site BenchTec and give Maverik-SG1 a hearty handshake on the forums.

Congratulations, Andrew, that's an awesome result!