PRESS RELEASE
After the release of MSI's X79 BIOS with support for the 4th Generation Intel® CoreTM i7 Processors (codenamed Ivy Bridge-E) in August and the launch of the 4th Generation Intel® CoreTM i7 Processors in September it was bound to happen; hardware performance world records getting shattered.
Several overclockers worldwide broke in total 7 CPU based world records, demonstrating that the MSI X79 motherboards can push the CPU to its maximum. MSI's X79 flagship - Big Bang XPOWER II - was used by various enthusiast overclockers to push the 4th Generation Intel® CoreTM i7 Processors to new heights breaking 3 world records; wPrime 32m, wPrime 1024m and CineBench R11.5.
MSI is even more proud that its very affordable X79A-GD45 Plus motherboard was able to break 4 world records with help of the skills of various overclockers across the globe. Besides breaking the Intel® CoreTM i7-4960X wPrime 1024m record, the X79A-GD45 Plus was also able to set new highest frequency settings for all the 3 new 4th Generation Intel® CoreTM i7 Processors, including an amazing 6.5 GHz on the Intel® CoreTM i7-4930K. The other 2 records are created with the 63x CPU multiplier.
This shows that anyone who wants to overclock the 4th Generation Intel® CoreTM i7 Processors can't go wrong with MSI's overclocking motherboards.
World record scores
| CPU | Score | Motherboard | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU frequency | 4960X | 6300 MHz | MSI X79-GD45 Plus | Toppc (Taiwan) |
| CPU Frequency | 4930K | 6552.32 MHz | MSI X79-GD45 Plus | Toppc (Taiwan) |
| CPU frequency | 4820K | 6363 MHz | MSI X79-GD45 Plus | Toppc (Taiwan) |
| wPrime -32M | 4960K | 2s 812ms | MSI BigBang XPOWER II | Benchbros (Germany) |
| wPrime -1024M | 4960X | 84s 553ms | MSI X79-GD45 Plus | Toppc (Taiwan) |
| wPrime -1024M | 4930K | 80s 279ms | MSI BigBang XPOWER II | SNIPEROZ (Australia) |
| CINEBENCH R11.5 | 4960X | 11.55 points | MSI BigBang XPOWER II | Benchbros (Germany) |
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About MSI
In the past 25 years, MSI always strived to provide products based on its core values -"Innovation" and "Style". The results are products with superior performance, trusted reliability, excellent user experience and expressive style. MSI mainboards and graphics cards are found among the top 3 in the world because of their great quality and maximum productivity. Our hard work have led us to become one of the finest brands in the industry with accumulated sales in more than 120 countries, 150 million mainboard users and 100 million graphics card users worldwide. MSI has won nearly 8,000 award recognitions from 350 media in 50 countries worldwide. MSI will continue to pioneer in the area of global consumer electronics technology with the needs of hardware enthusiasts, gamers and consumers at its core. For more information about MSI, go to www.msi.com.
