X99-SOC Champion – Let it Rain Records

Along with our in-house overclockers HiCookie, Sofos and Dino, we invited 4
of the world’s best overclockers to the GIGABYTE OC lab to test the new X99-SOC
Champion motherboard and see if it really lives up to its Champion name.



The results are impressive; after 7 days of almost nonstop benching, the team
of elite overclockers achieved a total of 9 World Records, 22 Global Firsts and
25 Hardware Firsts all using the X99-SOC Champion. On top of that, HiCookie also
managed to reach the Highest DDR4 Memory Clock Worldwide Overall Ranking for X99
motherboards with a frequency of 4014.6 MHz (Quad Channel).



Here is the summary:

9 World Records (Also Global 1st and Hardware 1st) 3DMARK11 – Entry 3DMARK11 – Performance 3DMARK Vantage 3DMARK Fire Strike 3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme 3DMARK - CLOUD GATE 3DMARK - ICE STORM 3DMARK - ICE STORM EXTREME XTU

13 Global Firsts (Also Hardware 1st) 3DMARK11 – Performance 1xGPU 3DMARK11 – Performance 2x GPU 3DMARK11 – Performance 3XGPU 3DMARK Vantage 3XGPU 3DMARK Fire Strike 2xGPU 3DMARK Fire Strike 3xGPU 3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme 2xGPU 3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme 3xGPU 3DMARK - SKY DIVER 2xGPU 3DMARK - FIRE STRIKE ULTRA 2xGPU 3DMARK - ICE STORM 2xGPU CATZILLA - 720P 2xGPU CATZILLA – 1440P 2xGPU

2 Hardware 1sts DDR4 Memory Clock 4014.6 MHz SuperPI - 32M Core i7 5960X (5min 9sec 110ms)

1 Top X99 Reference Clock 182.49 MHz

X99-SOC Champion Achievements at GIGABYTE Secret OC, December
2014

3DMARK11 – Entryhttp://hwbot.org/submission/2693895 · World Record · Global First Place (3xGPU) · Hardware First Place (3x GEFORCE GTX 980)	3DMARK11 – Performancehttp://hwbot.org/submission/2692880 · Global First Place (1xGPU) · Hardware First Place (1x GEFORCE GTX 980)
3DMARK11 – Performance http://hwbot.org/submission/2693244 · Global First Place (2xGPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 980)	3DMARK11 – Performance http://hwbot.org/submission/2693883 · Global First Place (3x GPU) · Hardware First Place (3x GEFORCE GTX 980)
3DMARK11 – Performance http://hwbot.org/submission/2691701 · World Record · Global First Place (4x GPU) · Hardware First Place (4x GEFORCE GTX 980)	3DMARK Vantage http://hwbot.org/submission/2693871 · Global First Place (3x GPU) · Hardware First Place (3x GEFORCE GTX 980)
3DMARK Vantage http://hwbot.org/submission/2691694 · World Record · Global First Place (4x GPU) · Hardware First Place (4x GEFORCE GTX 980)	3DMARK Fire Strike http://hwbot.org/submission/2693243 · Global First Place (2x GPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 980)
3DMARK Fire Strike http://hwbot.org/submission/2693861 · Global First Place (3x GPU) · Hardware First Place (3x GEFORCE GTX 980)	3DMARK Fire Strike http://hwbot.org/submission/2692803 · World Record · Global First Place (4x GPU) · Hardware First Place (4x GEFORCE GTX 980)
3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme http://hwbot.org/submission/2693099 · Global First Place (2x GPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 980)	3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme http://hwbot.org/submission/2693863 · Global First Place (3x GPU) · Hardware First Place (3x GEFORCE GTX 980)
3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme http://hwbot.org/submission/2691696 · World Record · Global First Place (4x GPU) · Hardware First Place (4x GEFORCE GTX 980)	3DMARK - SKY DIVER http://hwbot.org/submission/2693925 · Global First Place (2x GPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 980)
3DMARK - CLOUD GATE http://hwbot.org/submission/2693252 · World Record · Global First Place (2x GPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 980)	3DMARK - FIRE STRIKE ULTRA http://hwbot.org/submission/2693101 · Global First Place (2x GPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 980)
3DMARK - ICE STORM http://hwbot.org/submission/2693261 · Global First Place (2x GPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 980)	3DMARK - ICE STORM http://hwbot.org/submission/2693899 · World Record · Global First Place (3x GPU) · Hardware First Place (3x GEFORCE GTX 980)
3DMARK - ICE STORM EXTREME http://hwbot.org/submission/2693278 · World Record · Global First Place (2x GPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 980)	CATZILLA - 720P http://hwbot.org/submission/2693939 · Global First Place (2x GPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 980)
CATZILLA – 1440P http://hwbot.org/submission/2693937 · Global First Place (2x GPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 980)	XTU http://hwbot.org/submission/2691705 · World Record · Global First Place (8 Cores) · Hardware First Place (Core i7 5960X)
Memory Clock – DDR4 http://hwbot.org/submission/2693948 · Hardware First Place (DDR4 SDRAM)	SuperPI - 32M http://hwbot.org/submission/2691722 · Hardware First Place (Core i7 5960X)
REFERENCE CLOCK http://hwbot.org/submission/2695651 · Hardware First Place (X99-SOC Champion)

Z97X-SOC Force Achievements at GIGABYTE Secret OC, December
2014

3DMARK05http://hwbot.org/submission/2695712 · World Record · Global First Place (1x GPU) · Hardware First Place (GEFORCE GTX 980)	3DMARK06 http://hwbot.org/submission/2695711 · World Record · Global First Place (1x GPU) · Hardware First Place (GEFORCE GTX 980)
3DMARK06 http://hwbot.org/submission/2695093 · Global First Place (2x GPU) · Hardware First Place (2x GEFORCE GTX 580)	PIFast http://hwbot.org/submission/2678749 · World Record · Global First Place · Hardware First Place (Core i7 4770K)
Aquamark http://hwbot.org/submission/2676834 · World Record · Global First Place (1x GPU) · Hardware First Place (GEFORCE GTX 980)