An excellent waste of time!

@szy-sz: Mostly gaming (pleasure) and productivity apps (work). Occasionally, I benchmark just for fun. Once an engineer, always an engineer.

@T-wRecks: Not anytime soon. The 12-core achievement requires a different motherboard. My Ivy Bridge mobo maxes out at 4 cores (8 threads).

And the 50% OC achievement is not very realistic for my current gaming rig. Base Clock Speed for the Core i7-3770K CPU is 3.5 GHz, so a 50% OC would require 5.25 GHz. I normally run 4.8 GHz when gaming, and that's with a custom water-cooling loop. The fastest benchmark run I've ever completed in 3DMark under water with this chip was 5.05 GHz, and that OC was extremely unstable. If I even breathed on the monitor, it would blue screen out of pure sympathy for the chip! LOL.

Sub-zero overclocking with Dry Ice or Liquid Nitrogen requires a custom set-up and is done with the mobo on an open bench instead of inside a PC case.

http://rog.asus.com/65842012/overclocking/sub-zero-overclocking-motherboard-preparation/

Now it sounds challenging:) Do you use this peak potential just for gaming? ;) Best 4th and hope that BBQ is already started

O.o Ok, then you clearly did earn it heh. Going for those 12 core or 50% overclocked ones?

For reference, my best official score (i.e., "Valid Result", with an approved driver) is 179,329, which is #147 on the Steam leaderboard...

http://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/stats/3DMark/leaderboards/217113/?steamid=76561197994075687

So I had to force my rig to run about 25% below it's peak potential to hit that target.

That's why the achievement is so rare (0.3% of users).

http://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/stats/3DMark/achievements/

Thanks, guys.

@T-wRecks: It's actually harder than it might appear. It wasn't just a random score produced in a normal benchmark run. I had to specifically target it by disabling SLI (i.e., 1 GPU vs. 2), and then going through 8 iterative reductions in GPU Boost Clock (MHz), Power Target (%), and Memory Clock (MHz) to hit the 133,700 range.

Well that beats my rig :)

I always hate those adverts you see on the right of the screen, I find them fishey.

That's an actual real achievement lol. Grats, although I'm not sure how much credit you can claim heh.

lol.....nice 1