Swedish overlocker Elmore has managed to break two overclocking world records this week, achieving the highest score ever attained in 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme with a single GPU setup, and clocking the highest frequency yet reached on the Nvidia GeForce GTX 980.

The extreme overclocking was performed on a custom system sporting the aforementioned Asus GTX 980 Strix, an Asus Rampage V Extreme motherboard, 16GB of G.Skill DDR4 memory, and a hefty Intel Core i7-5960X processor. To get all of this running he needed a bit of a beast of a power supply to boot, running a Cooler Master 1200W PSU.

Nvidia’s latest flagship card has proven itself yet again as a worthy upgrade for keen overclockers, the GM204 Maxwell-powered GPU is capable of some serious overclocks, but none before have quite been on this scale. Elmor managed to get the GeForce GTX 980 overclocked all the way to a massive 2202 MHz from a stock speed of 1178 MHz, achieving a single-GPU 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme score of 9568, around 100 more than the previous record set by renowned overclocker K|ngp|n.

Elmore didn’t stop there either, pushing the Core i7-5960X processor all the way up to a staggering 5.586 GHz and clocking the GTX 980’s onboard GDDR5 memory up to 8.4 GHz.

He achieved all this with the use of some pretty extensive cooling methods that don’t look all that practical for a gaming session, with liquid nitrogen used extensively to keep the GTX 980 running cool at these extreme clock speeds. Perhaps most impressive of all is that these records are being broken by a card readily available for $580, easily beating out the GTX 780 Ti which is available for a similar price.

Impressed by these absolutely massive benchmarks? Has Nvidia surprised you with the potential of its Maxwell-powered cards?