Gigabyte’s CES 2014 Overclocking Event: Enthusiasts In Vegas

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Modding Too

Gigabyte even invited a custom chassis builder to put his mad mod skills into event-branded open platforms. Farther down the table, more overclockers look on.

Finally, A World Record!

Around six hours later, even the die-hard overclockers were ready to call it a night. But Gigabyte still had a tank of liquid nitrogen remaining, waiting for their return.

The excitement began after all of those hours of work. Having witnessed a couple of ~6.5 GHz overclocks and a lowely 5.6 GHz on an unlucky CPU sample, Dino and Steponz set a Unigine Heaven (Xtreme Preset) world record of 8710.91 DX11 Marks using four Radeon R9 290X graphics cards at 1300 MHz GPU, a Core i7-4770K at 6.4 GHz, and two G.Skill DDR3-2666 C10 modules at CAS 9!

Yet Another World Record!

While several teams focused primarily on CPU performance, others were busy modifying their graphics cards. I didn’t get to see any results from those systems in our first day of coverage, but Gigabyte returned with a later O/C record from ViVi. The team used Gigabyte’s Z87X-OC motherboard to push a Core i7-4770K to 6.4 GHz, G.Skill Pi series GDDR3-2200 C7 to DDR3-2400 C8, an AX1200i power supply (with apologies to event co-sponsor Enermax), and EVGA’s K|NGP|N GTX 780 Ti at 1550 MHz/1925 MHz GPU/Boost.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.
26 Comments Comment from the forums
  • rantoc
    So where is that 7 ghz processor that will run stable 24/7 and not just a benchmark and its done... kinda useless but so is drag racing so why not!
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  • bemused_fred
    "We all know that female overclockers exist, but few of us have seen one.""A GIRL! A GIRL! A GIRL! A GIRL!"Oh grow up already. Don't react to girls being at an overclocking competition like a 14-year-old boy having their model train society invaded by one and then wonder why we see so few in the overclocking business.
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  • SoumyaHD
    WOW
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  • Novuake
    12405119 said:
    "We all know that female overclockers exist, but few of us have seen one.""A GIRL! A GIRL! A GIRL! A GIRL!"Oh grow up already. Don't react to girls being at an overclocking competition like a 14-year-old boy having their model train society invaded by one and then wonder why we see so few in the overclocking business.

    Its called rhetoric, I am reasonably sure that the author did not go "GIRL GIRL...". The idea behind it is HUMOUR.

    You are reacting like a 14 old boy TRYING very hard to act mature.

    So stop nitpicking.
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  • bemused_fred
    12405450 said:

    So stop nitpicking.

    I hardly think it's nitpicking to say that something alone the lines of

    The Fairer Side Of Overclocking

    We all know that female overclockers exist, but few of us have seen one. Gigabyte’s event featured two, but the other one always seemed to have her back turned to the camera.

    Is perhaps the creepiest, least mature way of talking about women, ever. It's like the author has heard of women, and maybe even seen a picture or two of them, but can't react to seeing one in real life beyond "WOW, SUCH GIRL. MANY RARE. MUCH FAIRNESS. WHY TURN BACK. WOW". C'mon. If you want more women in the P.C. hardware market maybe try, oh I dunno, treating them like the normal* human beings that they are instead of some kind of freak show to be gawked at.

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  • expl0itfinder
    ^^When you put it in a quote, it is pretty creepy o_0
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  • Novuake
    The people saying they are not sexist or racist or whatever are the ones that constantly hold it in their mind and bind it to society, LET IT GO and no one can take offence to it.

    Hell if you were a woman Fred then you would have had all right to complain, but you are not. You may be completely wrong and every woman out there that do overclock finds his insert funny.

    Everyone's an individual, stop talking about equality, if you are not in some backwater country, you should not even be considering it a problem. If I were to treat everyone with that know nothing about the computer industry the same, they would never learn anything.
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  • bemused_fred
    The people saying they are not sexist or racist or whatever are the ones that constantly hold it in their mind and bind it to society, LET IT GO and no one can take offence to it.Hell if you were a woman Fred then you would have had all right to complain, but you are not. You may be completely wrong and every woman out there that do overclock finds his insert funny. Everyone's an individual, stop talking about equality, if you are not in some backwater country, you should not even be considering it a problem. If I were to treat everyone with that know nothing about the computer industry the same, they would never learn anything.
    All I'm saying is that the author of this piece should talk about women like they're people instead of gasping and fawning over them in an abnormal and frankly scary manner. If that upsets you, you really need to take a good look at yourself and ask why.
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  • Sykotik
    All I'm saying is that the author of this piece should talk about women like they're people instead of gasping and fawning over them in an abnormal and frankly scary manner. If that upsets you, you really need to take a good look at yourself and ask why.
    All we're saying is that the reader of this piece should read 'with a grain of salt' instead of gasping and trolling over it in an abnormal and frankly annoying manner. If that tiny portion of text upsets you, you really need to take a good look at yourself and ask why.
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  • Mahisse
    I love how comments for these articles always turn into discussion about a completely unrelated question :D
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