This is amazing. An enthusiastic overclocker by the handle of “Hicookie” has taken the Intel Core i7 3930K processor and cranked it up past 5.6GHz using a Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 motherboard. For stat fans, that’s the first motherboard to hit a 57x multiplier.
You won’t be getting these speeds on your own PC any time soon – Hicookie needed to drag the temp down to -70 to make it happen. While there is some contention about the fact he only used two cores and two threads, it’s still a spectacular effort that set a few records.
Amazing.
[via HotHardware]
Stew
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 2:52 PMThis article page for some reason automatically redirects to YouTube!
Nick Broughall
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 3:27 PMAn errant bit of extra code snuck into the CMS. Bad link code! Fixed now.
Victor
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 3:05 PMI am getting redirected to Youtube as well.
Lolcopter
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 3:16 PMYeah so am i
GigZ333
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 3:18 PMyea me to
Boomzzilla
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 5:52 PMMy $150 gigabyte Z68 and $200 2500k get to 4.5Ghz for a quarter of the price of that setup, with all cores/threads enabeled.
Jack
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:23 AM“[video provider='youtube' id='F89l38YiHcw']”
Is all I see on the mobile site.