MSI overclocks Ivy Bridge to 7 GHz with liquid nitrogen

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Published on Tuesday, 03 April 2012 14:00 Written by Jacob Hugosson

Facts are leaking left and right before the launch of Ivy Bridge, especially since even manufacturers are eager to show results with their new motherboards. We can now show Intel's coming Ivy Bridge processor overclocked to over 7 GHz with liquid nitrogen.

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Published on Monday, 26 March 2012 18:00 Written by Jacob Hugosson

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EVGA GeForce GTX 680 doped and overclocked to 1842 MHz

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Published on Thursday, 22 March 2012 17:09 Written by Anton Karmehed

GeForce GTX 680 is a real speed freak, but overclocking is not as simple as we are used to. With that said there is nothing that can't be done with the help of a little violence and technology know-how. With a tailored voltage cirucitry an EVGA graphics card was overclocked to 1840 MHz.

MSI R7970 Lightning overclocked to 1800 MHz by elmor

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Published on Wednesday, 21 March 2012 09:51 Written by Anton Karmehed

MSI R7970 Lightning is one of the first really extreme graphics cards based on AMD's fresh 28nm GPU Tahiti XT. Three-fold Swedish champion in overclocking Jon "elmor" Sandström has shown what the card is capable of by reaching a GPU frequency of crazy 1.8 GHz.

Intel Ivy Bridge climbs above 7 GHz under extreme cold

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Published on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:25 Written by Carl Holmberg

Despite unclear information on when Intel's new processor series Ivy Bridge might arrive, but more and more leakss with specifications and benchmarks is out on the web. This time it is the coming Core i7-3770K that has been overclocked to 7.06 GHz.

AMD Llano overclocked to over 6 GHz, memory at 3505 MHz

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Published on Wednesday, 01 February 2012 12:45 Written by Jacob Hugosson

AMD's unlocked versions of Llano, A8-3870K and A6-3670K have turned out to be less overclocking friendly than we had hoped for under air cooling. With extreme cooling, like liquid nitrogen, Christian Ney managed to claim two new records.

Radeon HD 7970 overclocked to 1.7 GHz - crushing records

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Published on Monday, 02 January 2012 10:52 Written by Anton Karmehed

AMD promised a card that would reach really high frequencies at the launch of Radeon HD 7970. Well known overclockers have now pushed AMD's new flagship to staggering heights and at 1.7 GHz GPU frequency the card has claimed the performance crown.

Corsair pushes DDR3 module to new world record - 3467 MHz

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Published on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 09:47 Written by Anton Karmehed

Memory maker Corsair has set a new clock frequency record for DDR3 memory when overclockers Jake "Planet" Crimmins pushed a single Dominator GT CMGTX6 module to staggering 3467 MHz cooled by liquid nitrogen.

Andre Yang claims new WR at 8461 MHz with AMD FX

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Published on Monday, 31 October 2011 10:37 Written by Jacob Hugosson

The world record AMD claimed together with a group of known overclocking profiles did not last for long, but has already been broken - with liquid nitrogen. Even through AMD has access to liquid helium, Andre Yang managed to surpass the old record and reach 8461 MHz.

hicookie hits 8030 MHz with AMD FX-8150 on LN2

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Published on Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:25 Written by Jacob Hugosson

Bulldozer has launched and even though the reviews haven't been shining, it is here. Overlocking profile hicookie, now resident at Gigabyte, had the chance to overclock the latest processor from AMD, where he managed to break 8 GHz with liquid nitrogen.

MSI MOA 2011 over, Romania victorious

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Published on Friday, 07 October 2011 12:38 Written by Jonas Klar

The MOA final 2011 is over, and like the EMEA final earlier this year Romania was victorious, Monstru and Matose from Team Lab501. The runnerup was Greece and third Sweden with ME4ME and elmor. It was unusally tight and surprisingly few failures with 15 of 16 teams posting scores in all three benchmarks, while the four first teams (almost as always) was European, where Japan claimed the fifth spot. Ann-Sofie "Mink" Lönnqvist has co-written this report as our bystander for the competition.

Interview with AMD's Sami Mäkinen on the new WR

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Published on Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:17 Written by Jacob Hugosson

Just before we published the new on AMD's new world record where it managed to climb to 8,429 MHz with the new Bulldozer architecture we got answers to many of the questions we sent to AMD's Sami Mäkinen about the event. Those who are wondering about the overclocking potential of the new architecture, look no further!

World's highest frequency broken, with AMD FX series "Bulldozer"

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Published on Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:01 Written by Jacob Hugosson

AMD has finally released some goodies on the coming architecture Bulldozer. Many have been wondering when we would see a new top frequency world record, which was held by Intel's Cedar Mill processors at 8 308 MHz, and it was none less than AMD's Bulldozer architecture that broke the record is reigning king.

AMD Llano shuts down AHCI and USB 3.0 when overclocking

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Published on Friday, 12 August 2011 16:34 Written by Anton Karmehed

AMD A series won our hearts earlier this summer when it launched with a very powerful integrated graphics processor and a very competitive price. Some of the few drawbacks we could find was a disappointing overclocking experience. During the last few weeks we could conclude that the problems are bigger that we though, where both USB 3.0 and AHCI are affected.

GTX 560 Ti sets new world record with 1670 MHz

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Published on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 10:25 Written by Jacob Hugosson

The new graphics cards with 28nm GPUs are still not here, and it looks like it will take some time before we see them. That doesn't mean that the current graphics card are no fun, and Chinese overclocker X800pro has shown that by breaking the world record with GTX 560 Ti.