Gigabyte Board Sets Intel X79 Overclocking Record

Posted by Unknown on Monday January 2, 2012 @03:01PM from the central-heating-system-replacement dept.

MojoKid writes "Renowned overclocker 'Hicookie' achieved a new high clock speed on the Intel Core i7 3930K processor by cranking the chip past 5.6GHz using a Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 motherboard, the first mobo in the world to achieve a mulitplier of 57x. There was a bit of a scandal with Gigabyte recently when a YouTube video showed one of its X79 boards going up in smoke. Gigabyte released a BIOS update for several of its X79 boards to prevent such incidents from happening, and there were outcries that the new F7 BIOS would ... [reduce] overclocking performance; Hicookie's achievement should erase those concerns."

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Stoopid. by Ethanol-fueled · 2012-01-02 15:05 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Overclocking was just as stupid in the days of motherboard clock jumpers as it is now.

Hurr durr, listen to my chip squeal in ultrasonic pain and fail days later just so I can gets an extra 33 MegaHertz duuuuuh.