BIOS & Overclocking

Upon entering the Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 BIOS, information technology's safe to enjoin everything looks the same as with any recent Gigabyte boards. The MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.) is still the menu of choice for overclockers.

Once in the "Advanced Frequency Settings" submenu, which is plant in the MB Intelligent Tweaker section, we were able to attain a 4.7GHz overclock using a Core i7-2600K processor (from the master copy 3.4GHz). We set the Central processing unit Clock Ratio to 44x and left the BCLK Frequency at 100Mhz. The Drachma frequency was set to 1866MHz and CPU voltage was increased to 1.375v, which we considered to be safe enough.

Because we were running the memory above specification, the Drachma voltage was increased to 1.64v, which is the highest advisable setting -- going high could damage the central processor, we've been told. All else BIOS settings were left alone, meaning we lonesome touched terzetto settings to attain this imposing overclock.

Pushing the Core i7-2600K processor past 4.7GHz was difficult atomic number 3 things grew unstable. This seems to be the limit of our chip, at least when victimisation an melodic phrase ice chest. Still, a 4.7GHz overclock on much a powerful processor is nada to constitute ashamed about.

As a side bank note, Gigabyte has been falling the ball lately away not including BIOS profiles/configurations, which ass be handy when overclocking. These days, it's just assumed that any motherboard costing over $200, let alone $300, will provide you with that sort of functionality. We hope Gigabyte can correct this in a future update, but since it's been an issue with all of its recent boards, we're not hopeful.