In late May, GIGABYTE announced that “renowned overclocker Hi- Cookie” recorded the highest validated CPU clock speed (per CPU-Z and Canard PC) for Intel’s 3.5GHz Core i7 3770K. Using a GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H motherboard and liquid-nitrogen cooling, HiCookie took the Ivy Bridge chip to a clock of 7.032GHz, good enough to set a world record according to the global overclocking website HWBot.org. On June 13, however, the GIGABYTE Tech Daily blog reported that HiCookie bested his own effort by hitting 7.089GHz using the same board. Incidentally, this wasn’t HiCookie’s only record-breaking effort recently. The overclocker also topped the world’s previous highest mark for memory speed on the Ivy Bridge platform by reaching 3,280MHz on all four memory slots on GIGABYTE’s GA-Z77XUD5H mobo using G.Skill Trident X DDR3-2800 4GB sticks.
