At the beginning of January 2012 the famous overclocker AndreYang was the author of the world record in 3DMark 2011 benchmark by the overclocked to 1700 MHz GPU core graphics card Radeon HD 7970 and the processor Intel Core i7-3960X, whose frequency has also been increased to 5637 MHz.
Last week, appeared the driver Catalyst 12.11 (beta), which increase the speed of graphics cards Radeon HD 7xxx line. It has been noticed that the adapter Radeon HD 7970 overclocked to 1360 MHz on the core (water cooling) is able to produce a result identical to AndreYang achievement.
The Greek overclocker Sofos1990 set the result 17 886 points . The Radeon HD 7970 was overclocked up to frequencies of 1700/8080 MHz (core GPU and memory, respectively). Video card worked with the processor Core i7-3770K with a frequency of 6087 MHz, the motherboard was Gigabyte Z77X-UP5.