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Splave takes gold in dual GeForce RTX 3090 ranking, while ale belo sets Phenom II X2 560 BE record
American overclocker Splave took first place with a pair of RTX 3090s, while Italy's ale belo set a new record with the Phenom II X2 560 BE.
American enthusiast Splave has once again delivered a major achievement. The overclocker secured first place in the dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 hardware category in GPUPI v3.3 - 32B:
To pull off this record, Splave used an Intel Core i9-9900KF clocked at 4894 MHz (technically just within its boost range) and two GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards (models from Zotac and ASUS) pushed to 2145 MHz on the GPU and 19504 MHz on the GDDR6X memory.
This run secured him the top spot in the dual RTX 3090 hardware category, as well as the gold cup among all dual-GPU configurations in GPUPI v3.3 - 32B.
Meanwhile, Italian overclocker ale belo stayed true to form, once again breaking one of his own records in the Phenom II X2 560 BE CPU category:
Notably, this particular CPU category has a legal loophole for boosting benchmark scores: core unlocking. As a result, instead of the stock dual-core chip, the Phenom II X2 560 BE rankings feature both three- and four-core variations of the processor.
But back to ale belo's run. To grab the top spot in y-cruncher - Pi-1b, the overclocker paired a modded high-end GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD7 motherboard with a top-tier DDR3 kit, the G.SKILL F3-2666C11-4GTXD. For cooling, he opted for a phase-change setup, allowing him to push the Phenom II X2 560 BE to 4687 MHz. This bench session yielded two gold medals: first place in the CPU's specific model ranking, and the top spot among all three-core processors.
