To drum up its Computex press conference, GIGABYTE held an overclocking demo with its new Z97 overclocking board. During that run, team GIGABYTE managed to break the current memory frequency world record with an incredible 4.5Ghz with Dino22, HiCookie and Sofos1990 setting a new memory World Record at 4.5GHz on GIGABYTE’s Z97X-SOC LN2 motherboard with Kingston’s HyperX Predator DDR3 memory.
Just 3 days later at the Kingston HyperX OC Takeover World Finals, Team GIGABYTE sets a new memory World Record at 4.56GHz on GIGABYTE’s Z97X-SOC LN2 motherboard with Kingston’s HyperX Predator DDR3 memory. Seriously… get some rest guys. 🙂
Apparently they got the hint and took some rest but that didn’t last as the interwebs was quick to criticize the achievement of such high clocks. Some questioned the validity of the submissions which led Sofos1990 to ONCE AGAIN set a new memory World Record at 4.62GHz on GIGABYTE’s Z97X-SOC LN2 motherboard with Kingston’s HyperX Predator DDR3 memory.
You can view the world record submission in HWBOT.
Now usually, a picture of your test bench and CPU-Z would be enough to validate submissions. Not this time, it isn’t. To totally put to bed any doubt from enthusiasts, HiCookie and Sofos1990 recorded the whole thing on video and, GET THIS, and was supervised by an official HWBOT representative, showing the whole rig setup, including a top-of-the-range oscilloscope directly hooked to the memory to show its “true†live frequency. An oscilloscope. I repeat, an oscilloscope. Both videos are linked below for your convenience. You may now pick up your jaw.
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GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards launched at their press conference during Computex 2014 the new extreme overclocking Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboard. Since then, the SOC FORCE LN2 motherboard has broken the DDR3 Memory Word Record twice, once at launch with a 4.5GHz frequency and once again 3 days later at the Kingston HYPERX OC Takeover World Finals with a new record of 4.56GHz.
Following recent reports of several highly suspicious memory records, GIGABYTE took the matter in hand and brought out the big artillery to prove to everyone that indeed the Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboard is the true #1 champion of memory overclocking. While trying to recreate its previous 4.5GHz memory score, the GIGABYTE team broke for the 3rdtime the DDR3 World Record by achieving an astonishing 4.62GHz frequency on Kingston’s HyperX Predator DDR3 memory.
Record Validation
Submitting a score with clear pictures of your accomplishment on HWBOT.org is apparently not sufficient anymore to prove legitimate benchmark records. Making sure that nothing was left out, the process was recorded and posted on Youtube by GIGABYTE’s overclocking evangelists HiCookie and Sofos1990 and witnessed by an official HWBOT representative, showing the whole rig setup, including a top-of-the-range oscilloscope directly hooked to the memory to show its “true†live frequency.