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]