Intel Ivy Bridge Processor Hits 7GHz Overclock Record

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:35AM from the who-ordered-this-keg-of-nitrogen? dept.

MojoKid writes "Renowned Overclocker HiCookie used a Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H motherboard to achieve a fully validated 7.03GHz clock speed on an Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge processor. As it stands, that's the highest clockspeed for an Ivy Bridge CPU, and it required a steady dose of liquid nitrogen to get there. HiCookie also broke a record for the highest memory speed on an Ivy Bridge platform, pushing his G.Skill Trident X DDR3-2800 memory kit populated in four DIMM slots to 3,280MHz. Not for the faint of heart, the record breaking CPU overclock required that HiCookie pump 1.956V to the processor, according to his CPU-Z screenshot. The CPU multiplier was set at x63."

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Re:One core, two threads? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-31 08:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

Generally they disable all cores but one to achieve these clock speeds.
Re:One core, two threads? by LtGordon · 2012-05-31 11:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

It's the same performance as a 1.6Ghz quadcore with just air cooling
Except that it's not. For some theoretical computations that could be made perfectly parallel, this might be nearly true. However, in most cases (presently), the limiting factor in computation speed is the clock speed of an individual core.