MSI Board Sets 3DMark 11 World Record in Futuremark Competition

World Record Marks Great Achievement in Overclocking Skills and Hardware Capabilities

Futuremark announced the winners of its latest Operation: Overclock contest, which was sponsored by MSI, Kingston, Enermax and Cougar. Singaporean overclocker Spyboy48 emerged with the best score that is now the official world record for 3DMark 11 Physics score. The new record score of 19,090 was set with an Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor and the MSI X79A-GD65 motherboard, marking a great achievement in overclocking progress. At stock settings, a similar system would get a score of about 11,000, so Spyboy48 improved the CPU performance of his system by almost 75 percent.

The level of competition in the contest was extremely high, with eight overclockers netting scores of over 18,000. In Futuremark’s official 3DMark 11 Physics score Hall of Fame, seven out of the top 10 results are from this contest. The dedicated Physics Test of 3DMark 11 uses intensive rigid-body physics simulation to measure a computer's processing power. The Physics Test score is linked to the speed and number of cores in your processor. PCs with fast, multi-core processors score well, while overclocking your CPU can boost your score even higher.

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