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Corsair Breaks PC Mark Vantage Record Using Force Series Solid-State Drives

Sub-zero cooled PC breaks world record score with Intel Core i7-980X, Corsair F200 SSDs, and Dominator GTX memory.

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April 5, 2010

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Corsair has announced that it has set a new world record score in PC Mark Vantage, using a performance PC powered by 11 Corsair Force Series F200 SSDs in a high bandwidth RAID configuration.

The World Record score of 32,947 was achieved by a Corsair-built system based around the Intel Core i7-980X six-core processor, cooled to sub-zero temperatures. The system was powered by a Corsair HX1000W PSU, 6GB of Corsair Dominator GTX2 memory, and 11 200GB Force Series F200 SSDs.

The recently-announced Force Series SSDs use the SandForce SF-1200 SSD processor to deliver sequential and random read/write performance. Using liquid nitrogen on a Kingpin Cooling F1EE LN2 pot, the team at Corsair's Labs overclocked the Intel Core i7-980X processor to a frequency of 5,791MHz and the Corsair Dominator GTX2 memory to a frequency of 2,144MHz, CL 7. Combined with the 11 Force Series F200 SSDs in RAID 0 using an Areca ARC-1680D-IX-12 PCI-E RAID controller, Corsair was able to exceed the previous world record score of 31,333 by 1,614 points.

Complete details regarding the test setup, methods, and results can be found here.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.

 

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