MSI Intel X79 Motherboards Reach Base Clock of 170.33MHz

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MSI announced that some of their Intel X79 series mainboards with Military Class III components have reached a new overclocking milestone. The American overclocker Turn&Burn successfully overclocked an Intel Core i7-3930K processor to a world record of 5.83GHz on an MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) motherboard. The 182% overclocking rate has rewritten the highest record for the Sandy Bridge-E processor. Meanwhile, the renowned Taiwanese overclocker Toppc used a Big Bang-XPower II mainboard to overclock an Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor to a new world record of 170.33MHz base clock!

Intel Core i7-3960X 170mhz bus speed

The new MSI X79 series mainboards are equipped with Military Class III components of high quality and stability. The newly introduced DrMOS II is the next generation DrMOS with a double thermal protection system built in. It ensures safety when users exceed normal operating specifications, for instance when they start overclocking. MSI X79 series mainboards also adopt the new PCI Express Gen 3 platform and offer the exclusive MSI Click BIOS II interface to offer the best performance and the smoothest operating experience. Other incorporated include the THX TruStudio PRO audio standard, Multi-BIOS II, Control Center II, and Super Charger. Furthermore, MSI Big Bang-XPower II has an enhanced 22-phase power design and supports 4-way NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFire multi-GPU computing technologies. All these above make MSI X79 series mainboards the best choice for ultimate performance.

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