Core i7 860 processor pushed to impressive 5.3GHz

In an attempt to be a little more attention to his newest series P55-based motherboards MSI has recently announced that one of their high-end motherboards used in a world record-breaking overclocking set-up, which saw Intel's Core i7 860 processor 5.39GHz whole way, from its stock frequency of 2.8 GHz. The Board, which is the flagship of MSI's P55 series, P55-GD80 called and said that some of the performance of MSI's unique features, including DrMOS, super pipe and supply
OC Genie technology.

According to a recent press release from the side of the Taiwan-based motherboard maker, said Intel processor overclocked successfully 5.39GHz, leading to a new world in terms of CPU performance. Overclocking was performed by "coolaler", a famous overclocking enthusiast, but the specific details about overclocking itself has not been provided. We are not sure how the overclocking was done, but given the reported speeds, it is a good chance that some Nitrous oxide was involved.

The platform is designed for a range of Intel's latest Core i5 and Core i7 processors and is equipped with a socket LGA 1156th The Board can support up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, while the three PCI Express x16 graphics slots are willing to support the latest high-end graphics cards on the market, including AMD's latest Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon 5870th To boast, is the platform designed to take advantage of the MSI OC Genie, superpipe and DrMOS technology.

MSI seems most of their latest high-end products designed for overclocking, a segment of computer enthusiasts who spend their time finding new ways to break the world record in terms of performance. Their latest motherboard P55-GD80 is no exception to the rule and can support Intel's latest line of mainstream processors.