Last month Gigabyte announced the global GPU overclocking competition – Beat Me If You Dare to invite overclockers all over the world to challenge Gigabyte’s GPU record of 15297. The contest didn’t give hardware limitation, which means the contestants are allowed to use any brand of GeForce GTX260 graphics card.

Team China, a well-known overclocking team has just broken the record with Zotac’s 15-phase GTX260 Extreme by overclocking it to 1100/2400/2600MHz (Core/Shader/Memory), and hitting a whopping 3DMark Vantage score of P17845.

Zotac GTX260 Extreme has already shown great overclocking potential during our quick test, even just with air-cooling solution.

The famous overclocker SE from Team China has given us some tips on overclocking with nitrogen. First of all, you should get fully prepared before that. By the way, they altered circuit of the card in order to improve the GPU voltage to 1.5V.

They covered the rear side of card with three layers of cotton to keep it cool. 

Overclocking platform

CPU: Intel Core i7-920

Cooler：K|ngp|n Dragon F1 Extreme Edition + Tek 5.0 Slim

Motherboard：ASUS Rampage II Gene

Memory：OCZ PC10666 1G x3

VGA Card：Zotac GTX260 EXTREME 896MB

Hard Drive：OCZ 60G SSD

Power Supply：Zalman ZM1000-HP

By keeping the card at -90℃ under load, they managed to run 3DMark Vantage steadily at 1100/2400/2600MHz, with total score of P17845.

ORB certification link: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=1515728

GPU-Z screenshot of overclocked Zotac GTX260 Extreme

Team China says there is still room for further overclocking, and let’s keep looking forward to more amazing achievement they’re making in the coming future.