Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge CPU Overclocked To 6.9GHz w/ LN2 Cooling
ASRock today announced that legendary overclocker, Nick Shih, has used their Z77 Extreme6 motherboard with an Intel Core i7 3770K processor and was able to reach an incredible 6.9GHz with LN2 Cooling. This is pretty wild as it is a 97 percent increase in speed if you consider the base clock of the processor is 3.5GHz.The platform was stable enough to do some Super PI 1M calculations and it was able to blaze through the calculation in just 5.304 seconds. At 6.7GHz he was able to get a 32M run to finish in 4 minutes 53.719 seconds!
Worlds Legendary OC Master, Nick Shih, managed to hit 6.9GHz, and completely run the Super PI 1M calculations only within 5.304 seconds. Compared with 10 seconds of the normal default, Z77 Extreme6 only needs 5.304 seconds to run all Super PI 1M programs, so you can obviously see the stable performance of that PC. With the same configuration which includes Intels latest Ivy Bridge Core i7 3770K processor, ASRock Z77 Extreme6 mainboard can overclock CPU to 6.7GHz high speed, and can even completely run Super PI 32M calculation programs within 4 minutes 53.719 seconds.
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