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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Finally by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-02 15:05 · Score: 5, Funny

A way to compile Gentoo in a reasonable amount of time.
Re:Stoopid. by noh8rz2 · 2012-01-02 15:21 · Score: 5, Funny

5.6 GHz should be enough for anybody. also, at 1.21 GW power draw, it will take you back in time.