Luumi sets two records with Intel Xeon L3014 in Cinebench R15 and Geekbench3

The Intel Xeon L3014 processor last appeared in our news back in the summer, specifically on July 31st. At that time, British overclocker NOXINITE set a new record in the rather niche GPUPI FOR CPU — 1B discipline.

Back then, I was convinced the enthusiast was just testing the waters and that a flood of records was coming for this single-core processor across various benchmarks and disciplines. Sadly, though, that was his only result with the Xeon L3014.

Fortunately, Finnish overclocker Luumi decided to capitalize on his British counterpart's oversight. A few days after an incredibly successful benching session with a Core i7 920, he turned his attention to the Xeon L3014.

And he went all in:

After overclocking the processor to 5906 MHz, Luumi set a new record in the Xeon L3014 model category and the global ranking for all single-core CPUs in Cinebench - R15.

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Then, slightly lowering the processor's frequency to 5832 MHz, the Finnish enthusiast also took gold in Geekbench3 - Multi Core, both in the model category and for all single-core CPUs.

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In the comments section for his results, the record-breaker shared his future plans:

And it's easy to believe him. After all, only Splave outperforms the Finnish overclocker in raw performance.

For both records, Luumi used liquid nitrogen, an ASUS Rampage Extreme motherboard (based on the top X48 chipset for the LGA775 platform — apparently the Asus Rampage Extreme Team Finland edition, the oldest available revision), two sticks of Corsair Dominator GTX2 DDR3 RAM, and a 2000-watt Super Flower Leadex power supply.

The author didn't specify whether the LGA771-designed CPU was modified for use on an LGA775 board, or if the board itself was modified (with cut guides). However, given the cost and rarity of the ASUS Rampage Extreme motherboard, it's clear the CPU itself was modified and notched.

Source: Overclocker's HWBot profile