While the world is still stunned and saddened by the tragic events that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, the Japanese spirit clearly does not falter. Booooon, a member of the Japanese overclocking team “Team Katanaâ€, used his Maximus IV Extreme motherboard to whip up a massive 6GHz (6003MHz exactly) world record on an Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge CPU. This astounding result was achieved at 1.688V Vcore with the BCLK set to 107.2MHz and CPU multiplier set to 56.
Booooon’s world record raises the bar for the difficult-to-push Sandy Bridge frequency limit. According to Booooon, “Without the Maximus IV Extreme, I could not have achieved the world’s first 6GHz record on an Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K. Naturally high CPU frequency can be scaled up by increasing CPU multiplier, but to get the ultimate speed, a higher CPU base clock (BCLK) is definitely the game decider. My experience with Maximus IV Extreme is that even on the edge of the CPU clocks, its BCLK still scales up very smoothly. In addition, Maximus IV Extreme easily sustains in low latency/higher ratio memory settings as well. Its excellent voltage regulation greatly helps on the stability in Vcore and Vddr etc., allowing me to concentrate just on overclocking without any other concerns. In conclusion, Maximus IV Extreme is the motherboard that can easily release the true overclocking power of the CPUâ€.
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