Wednesday, November 10th 2021
CPU-Z Renders GIGABYTE's 8 GHz Alder Lake Overclocking Record Invalid
A couple of days ago, GIGABYTE boasted with an overclocking record made using one of the company's motherboards. Allegedly, the company has achieved a world record of Alder Lake overclocking, causing the CPU to go up to 8 GHz frequency. However, such a claim was rather sketchy, according to the CPU-Z developer "Doc TB." In the later investigation, he concluded that the submission took advantage of a false reporting algorithm that gave HiCookie and GIGABYTE a chance to submit a world record as validated by the CPU-Z validator program. Further investigation concluded that the program reported incorrect numbers, and GIGABYTE's world record of 8 GHz on Alder Lake had been made invalid as of now.
The CPU-Z validation team is working hard to update the validation algorithm and make it more challenging for false submissions to appear valid. One interesting thing to point out is that HiCookie and GIGABYTE have already attempted to post false records with the launch of AMD's Ryzen 5000 series of processors, where they claimed that the CPU managed to reach 6,362.16 MHz, where in reality it was running at 5,683.94 MHz. This overclocker submitted those faulty results to HWBot as fake at the time and has now done it again.
Sources:
Doc TB (Twitter), via Tom's Hardware
The CPU-Z validation team is working hard to update the validation algorithm and make it more challenging for false submissions to appear valid. One interesting thing to point out is that HiCookie and GIGABYTE have already attempted to post false records with the launch of AMD's Ryzen 5000 series of processors, where they claimed that the CPU managed to reach 6,362.16 MHz, where in reality it was running at 5,683.94 MHz. This overclocker submitted those faulty results to HWBot as fake at the time and has now done it again.
41 Comments on CPU-Z Renders GIGABYTE's 8 GHz Alder Lake Overclocking Record Invalid
Ageclock fudging huh :slap:They have made some really great products over the years from GPUs to Motherboards.
Many of there products reviewed here on TPU are generally positive.
Don't let one or two bad incidents label the entire brand has negative or bad.
And I guess it has.
I suppose Roman won't have any choice but to severely penalize or perma-ban him at this point.
Either way - What a waste.
You might as well accept you're going to be buying from scummy companies no matter what you do if you're into building PCs.
The Z chipsets are overclocking chipsets, yet boards were made with it that couldnt handle overclocking. I remember many years ago even a low end Z chipset board could do reasonable levels of overclocking and no locked bios options, but now its becoming more and more as if they only care about the premium boards working properly.
Would be more fantastic to see CPU's actually reach 6GHz on water, for consumers or so.