Monday, August 27th 2012
Gigabyte Cracks Core i7-3770K OC World Record with Z77X-UP7
Gigabyte cracked Core i7-3770K clock speed record, achieving 7102 MHz. The feat was made possible with its newest Ultra Durable 5 motherboard, the Z77X-UP7. The UP7 is geared for overclocking, but unlike some of its predecessors such as the X79-UD7 and X58-OC, the new board focuses as much on graphics card overclocking and multi-GPU capabilities, as CPU overclocking. In the CPU overclocking department, it is armed by over 32 phases of CPU VRM that use PowIRstage chips.
With graphics card overclocking, not only does the board provide up to four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots using PLX PEX8747 chips, but also a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot that's directly wired to the CPU, for single card overclocking. This is done by wiring all 16 lanes from the CPU through 2-way switches before making it to the PEX8747 chips. If a graphics card is populating the black PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot, the PEX8747 is automatically cut off, and all 16 lanes from the CPU root complex it routed to it. This way, single card overclockers overcome the latency issues of bridge chips. The Z77X-UP7 is armed with countless such OC-friendly features, find out more at the source.
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TweakTown
With graphics card overclocking, not only does the board provide up to four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots using PLX PEX8747 chips, but also a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot that's directly wired to the CPU, for single card overclocking. This is done by wiring all 16 lanes from the CPU through 2-way switches before making it to the PEX8747 chips. If a graphics card is populating the black PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot, the PEX8747 is automatically cut off, and all 16 lanes from the CPU root complex it routed to it. This way, single card overclockers overcome the latency issues of bridge chips. The Z77X-UP7 is armed with countless such OC-friendly features, find out more at the source.
32 Comments on Gigabyte Cracks Core i7-3770K OC World Record with Z77X-UP7
and any working PC that is important is already a supercomputer... so again... useless benching? :roll:
edit: i'd rather hear some news on what the world's supercomputers are accomplishing to progress mankind
The point is to see who can push their hardware the furthest... who can get the biggest number. It's also a plug for their motherboard... someone cracked the world record for the 3770k oc on this board, so enthusiasts should want to buy it for its overclockability. However, this isn't for 24/7 use; I'm sure liquid nitrogen was involved, and probably something in the neighborhood of 1.7v vcore... so this number is a moot point to most of us.
I do wonder how they got the 3770k to 7.1GHz though. I thought you could only overclock with the multiplier on socket 1155. Did someone find a way to clock using BCLK on 1155?
AMD FTW!!! INTEL SUCKS!!!
:laugh::roll:
Can this be done 24/7, no, of course not.
Why is this done, because it's fun!
Please don't get me wrong, I obviously highly respect the care and time they spent on the project, so it's not that I don't understand how hard is it to achieve something like that, but still, I just can't look at it as something legit, I never have.
I'm sorry:shadedshu
3770K max multiplier is 63, so 7102 / 6300 = 112.73 baseclock
For instance, the goverments have technology to create free energy for the whole mankind, yet keep it for themselves, as we pay electricity bill, we beeing the lucky one, there are people who die of hunger everyday.
Not to mention electricity based or water based motors for autos, you could find a ton of examples here.
Another example me beeing one that knows of at least 3 ways to cure every disease on earth, yet no one can benefit from my knowledge ! Why ? There#s no profit in beeing healthy, thats why :)) Beeing healthy is acctualy cheaper than beeing sick.
Its a sick world out there, all because of the money and because of the self desire of a handfull of egotistic maniacs bent on controlling the world for their own selfish purposes.
Luckily, the other galactic civilizations who have watched us for hundreds of years are sick of the situation here on earth, and measures have allready been taken to make things right.
They even said that they havent meet untill now a single civilization where the corruption and the suppression of truth is so big as it is now on poor 'ol planet earth.
I would say that "drag racing" induces similar feelings in me. I do appreciate the top quality engineering what goes into those vehicles, and they amaze me all the time indeed, but I also can't agree whit someone who is calling it a "car racing" event. It's more like a torque race for me, lacking all the quality what's use to happen when cars race on a track. While I can understand if that's a lot of fun for many people, I still feel it's fake when they call it car racing, just like how I feel it's fake when someone breaks records in a "useless" way in computer science, as I already explained my views on this subject some time ago.
It's a great record all right, and I'm sure it's also an important step in the name of progression indeed, but I can't help it, I just can't see the point in it in a way how you do, because I feel "cheated" knowing that they disabled those other cores just to get this high MHz.
ps.: And I know that I'm not an un-thusiasts;)
...but wait, I can put two TTL "NOTs" in a feedback loop and I have a 1ghz clock! (Which is fast for TTL chips I might add,) but it doesn't do anything. What good is 7.1ghz if you can't use it? Also for a CPU that can handle BCLKs that high and temps that low, I bet you they cherry picked for that CPU until they came across it.
I'm perfectly content knowing that my 3820 on air at 4.4Ghz is most likely at least twice as fast than 1 core at 7.1ghz with hyper-threading disabled (no, no, can't test that one core too hard. :confused:). :banghead:
I don't know how it gets up in WA, but here in NH, we have two seasons: summer and winter and winter lasts the majority of the year (with the exception of this year, I was rather disappointed because I like snow). :)
Go drive down route 128 in Massachusetts, traffic usually goes at 80-90 MPH and the speed limit is 55. Sounds like your kind of crowd. :p
I'm not "anti performance" but c'mon, castrate any CPU and you'll likely find some crazy speeds on a single core...
These clocks, or even close to, on a full CPU = :rockout: Well, spit it out! You Indian boys and your secrets! :laugh:
:toast:
Anyways Lets get back on topic, I think our stories are enough as is.