About ten days ago we noted how Greek Extreme overclocker $@39@ (pronounced Saega we think) had taken down a bunch of Global First Place scores including HWBOT Prime, GPUPI for CPU 1B, wPrime 1024M and wPrime 32M. The scores elevated $@39@ to the heady heights of seventh place in the HWBOT world rankings which is pretty incredible for a non-Elite level overclocker. Today however, we bring your attention to a few more impressive submissions from the prolific Greek that now sees him rise into fourth place in the rankings.

Over the weekend $@39@ submitted a score of 355,858 marks in the classic 3DMark03 benchmark, a new World Record score. The submission was made using an Intel Core i7 7700K 'Kaby Lake' processor clocked at 7,038MHz, a massive +67.57% beyond the chip’s stock settings. The riog was based on an ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex motherboard with system memory configured at 1,836MHz using 12-12-12-28 timings. In terms of GPU $@39@ used an Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti card with the Pascal GPU clocked at 2,544MHz (+71.89) and graphics memory clocked at 1,526MHz (+10.90). The next fastest 3DMark03 score is from Dancop with 353,600 marks using a Titan XP card.

Also adding to his current tally of 2,641.3 points we have Global First Place ranked scores in 3DMark Time Spy and GPUPI 1B. $@39@ used a Broadwell-E Intel Core i7 6950X processor clocked at 5,175MHz (+72.50%) plus a GTX 1080 Ti clocked at 2,580MHz (+74.32%) / 1,526MHz (+10.90%) to score of 13,448 points, the highest ever single GPU score. The rig was based on a GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion motherboard with DDR4 configured at 1,515MHz (12-13-15-14). In GPUPI 1B the same rig was used to complete a run in just 8sec 857ms, also a Global First Place score for a single GPU.

It’s interesting to note that $@39@ has been experimenting with a direct mounted delided CPU without IHS in recent sessions. It seems enhanced performance is possible, but benching without an IHS also brings a few unique challenges:

"Indeed no IHS benching helps with 8 threaded benches if you are very careful with it. But is not as easy as it looks. I had to modify my pot base a bit and also try to make the chip bend as little as possible. Sometimes while testing I could bench perfect high core frequencies but anything above 6g for cache was no go. Also some of the times with no IHS my CPU needed high DMI although i was benching 2D with GPUs in the last slot... As for single threaded 2D I did not saw any significant change in frequencies but maybe that depends on each CPU."

Check out the current HWBOT World rankings here. You can find all the scores in the links above as well as all of $@39@’s other submissions here on his profile page. Congrats on making 4th place!