Gigabyte Board Sets Intel X79 Overclocking Record

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Renowned overclocker 'Hicookie (http://hwbot.org/user/hicookie/)' achieved a new high clock speed on the Intel Core i7 3930K (http://hothardware.com/News/Gigabyte-X79UD3-Motherboard-Obliterates-X79-Overclocking-Record-with-F7-BIOS/) 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 (http://hothardware.com/News/Gigabyte-Issues-Emergency-BIOS-Update-for-Certain-X79-Series-Motherboards/). 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

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/017217/gigabyte-board-sets-intel-x79-overclocking-record