Overclocking
Disclaimer: Overclocking your CPU means operating your CPU and motherboard outside of their design specifications, it can cause damage to them or kill them and may void their warranties depending on the manufacturer’s policies!
When it comes to Ivy Bridge processors there is one main difference for ambient overclockers. These things run HOT. Throughout my testing temperatures got up into the 80*C range even on a water loop. If you run on air you could have problems hitting very high clocks.
Another difference is for extreme overclockers who run sub-ambient cooling Ivy bridge processors will scale the colder the temperatures are. So that means you can run liquid nitrogen and your processor will run faster than it would on air or even phase change cooling.
For this review I stuck to 1.4v as a limit since these chips get very hot and that is a decent limit to see what kind of clocks can be achieved for daily useage.
Keep in mind that every processor is different so if I am able to hit certain clocks that does not mean you will be able to as well even with the same hardware.
CPUz Info
Everything was running fine and dandy until we got to Cinebench. Since it crashed during cinebench we had to drop down a multi to get all of the tests to finish. Still not too bad, but 4.8ghz would have been nicer.
3Dmark Vantage
Not bad at all for a 4.7ghz chip A little over a 5k score bump just for a 700mhz overclock.
MaxxMem
Cinebench 11.5
Wprime
Superpi
Memory Overclocking
Memory overclocking could use some work compared with the competition. I encountered odd bugs when switching between different memory types and memory with different capacities. Hopefully Gigabyte fixes this with a bios revision or with the next models of boards.
