– GIGABYTE X79-UD3 Motherboard with New F7 BIOS Smashes Intel® X79 World Records –
– World’s First Motherboard to Achieve 57x Multiplier with Intel® Core™i7 3930K –
Taipei, Taiwan, December, 29th 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced a record highest clock speed on the Intel® Core™ i7 3930K processor, producing new Intel® Core™ i7 3930K processor records for Super Pi and PiFast benchmarks. These records were achieved using the GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD3, the first motherboard to reach a maximum possible multiplier of 57x.
Equipped with the recently issued F7 BIOS and liquid nitrogen cooling, respected overclocker Hicookie was able to reach an incredible clock speed of 5,643.3MHz (5.6GHz) on an Intel® Core™ i7 3930K processor. This record clock speed was reached using a never seen before 57x CPU multiplier configurations thanks to the F7 BIOS, producing record scores for the Super Pi 1M and 32M and PiFast benchmarks.
New World Records (inc. HWBot links)
Super Pi 32M – 6mins 8.516 seconds
“These new world records underline how the GIGABYTE 3-way digital power engine on existing X79 motherboards makes breathtaking performance possible on our X79 series enthusiast platforms. They should also erase any skepticism regarding the performance and overclocking capabilities of our new F7 BIOS for GIGABYTE X79 motherboards,” commented Tim Handley, Deputy Director of Motherboard Marketing at GIGABYTE.
System Specifications
GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD3 (F7 BIOS)
Intel® Core™ i7 3930K* (@5,643.3MHz)
Kingston HyperX Genesis PC3-19200 2GB x 4 (@2376MHz)
Corsair AX1200
You can find Hi Cookie’s official benchmark submissions on HWBot here:
http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/core_i7_3930k/
Click the link below to watch a video of these world records being broken:
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