BIOS & Overclocking

Upon entering the Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 BIOS, information technology's rubber to say everything looks the same equally with any recent Gigabyte boards. The MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.) is however the menu of option for overclockers.

Once in the "Advanced Frequency Settings" submenu, which is institute in the MB Intelligent Tweaker department, nosotros were able to achieve a 4.7GHz overclock using a Core i7-2600K processor (from the original iii.4GHz). We set up the CPU Clock Ratio to 44x and left the BCLK Frequency at 100Mhz. The DRAM frequency was set up to 1866MHz and CPU voltage was increased to one.375v, which we considered to be safety enough.

Because we were running the memory in a higher place specification, the DRAM voltage was increased to 1.64v, which is the highest recommended setting -- going higher could impairment the processor, nosotros've been told. All other BIOS settings were left alone, meaning we only touched three settings to achieve this impressive overclock.

Pushing the Core i7-2600K processor past four.7GHz was difficult as things grew unstable. This seems to be the limit of our flake, at least when using an air libation. Still, a four.7GHz overclock on such a powerful processor is nothing to be aback about.

Equally a side note, Gigabyte has been dropping the ball lately by non including BIOS profiles/configurations, which can exist handy when overclocking. These days, it's just causeless that whatever motherboard costing over $200, let lonely $300, volition provide you with that kind of functionality. We promise Gigabyte can right this in a future update, but since it'due south been an issue with all of its recent boards, we're not hopeful.