Friday

HiCookie smashes Core i7 3930X world records on GIGABYTE X79-UD3

Yesterday our resident overclocking guru HiCookie took his Intel Core i7 3930X CPU, a X79-UD3 armed with our new F7 BIOS release, copious amounts of LN2 and set down to some serious overclocking action. The resulting world records were soon posted on HWBot. Another day, another line drawn in the sands of high-performance computing. Pushing a CPU core frequency of 5643.3 MHz, related records for SuperPi and PiFast were unceremoniously smashed.

Catch the video below for a front row seat.

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New 3930X Records;

Super Pi 1M - 6.64 seconds
Super Pi 32M – 6mins 8.516 seconds
PiFast – 13.02 seconds
CPUz – 5643.3MHz

You can find more details about the new F7 BIOS here, and the X79-UD3 here.

Tom’s Hardware coverage.

Thursday

New GIGABYTE @BIOS for X79 motherboards

For those who prefer a Windows based BIOS updater, we’ve just released a new @BIOS utility for the GIGABYTE X79 series of motherboards: http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/Utility.aspx?cg=2.

This would be a perfect way to update your new Sandy Bridge E system to the new high-performance F7 BIOS!

Get the most from Sandy Bridge E: Introducing the sin0822 Overclocking Guide

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Power user sin0822 is back on the overclocking guide trail again and this time he’s talking Sandy Bridge-E. So if you’ve invested in a brand spanking new GIGABYTE X79 series motherboard to go with your new Intel i7 processor, or maybe you’ve been a good boy or girl and Santa dropped one off last weekend - either way make sure you take a look at this guide. It gives you a step by step help with overclocking on both air and liquid cooling, plus a whole lot more including in-depth advice on everything from component choices to voltage reading.

You can find the guide on both xtremesystems.org and overclock.net

Enjoy! Cheers Sin…