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http://techgage.com/news/gigabytes_ma79gx-ds4h_helps_phenom_ii_reach_68ghz
Yesterday, I posted about a new high-end motherboard that eVGA were showing off, but aside from them, it was only Gigabyte who was actually pushing the kind of hardware that we were personally looking for. Motherboards, and lots of them. In particular, they had a keen interest in showing off their latest AMD-based boards, to coincide with the launch of Phenom II.
To help prove how much gusto their boards have, they and a few other co-sponsors held an overclocking event during CES to showcase their overclocking-ability. On-hand were members of the Xtremesystems.org forum, including site-owner Fugger. Their goal was to push the Phenom II X4 940 as far as humanly possible, with their ultimate goal being 7.0GHz.
In the end, they were unable to hit that clock, but they still hit an unbelievable 6.8GHz, which for a 3.0GHz processor, is a 225% overclock. Just how stable was it? Well, you can pretty much guess that one, but it was stable enough to pass through a few benchmarks with relative ease. Although Intel CPUs were also being overclocked, all the focus was on AMD's latest product.