A user named Fugger allegedly overclocked a 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 to 6.3 GHz. He achieved the feat using a DFI LANParty 875P-T motherboard, Centon Advanced DDR memory, OCZ DDR Booster and Chilly1 Three-Stage CPU Cascade. At 6.3 GHz, his overclocked Pentium 4 560 processor had a front bus speed of 1800 MHz.
ABIT has launched its new AA8XE Fatal1ty motherboard, based on the recently released i925XE chipset supporting 1066 MHz Pentium 4 processors. The board, approved by the number one gamer in the world, Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, includes features like an unlockable BIOS and µGuru overclocking technology. The AA8XE offers 7.1 high-definition audio and is the first motherboard with Dolby Digital Live support. The inclusion of red LED backlights will appeal to case modders.
ABIT has resumed its relationship with Nvidia with the release of the NF8 motherboard, based on the nForce3 250Gb chipset, supporting 754-pin Athlon 64 and Sempron processors. It includes integrated Nvidia Gigabit Ethernet and firewall. The NF8 also features ThermalGuard technology and BulletProof standards, promising extended durability.
ABIT has formally announced its AX8 motherboard, the first based on VIA's K8T890, a PCI Express chipset for 939-pin Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX processors. It includes one PCI-E x16 and three PCI-E x1 slots. Like other ABIT motherboards, it features the µGuru overclocking technology. AX8's main features are the following:
Nvidia announced its new nForce4 family of PCI Express chipsets designed to 939-pin Athlon 64 processors. The basic version has one PCI-E x16 slot for graphics cards, three PCI-E x1 slots, four Serial ATA ports, two ATA-133 ports, RAID 0, 1 and 0+1, USB 2.0, AC97 audio, hardware firewall and Gigabit Ethernet. The nForce4 Ultra and SLI adds support for Serial ATA II (3 Gb/s), a secure networking engine called ActiveArmor and a new optimization application called nTune. The SLI version, as is shown by its name, includes Nvidia´s multi-GPU solution.
Gigabyte has released its GA-8TRX330-L motherboard, which is based on ATI’s first discrete motherboard chipset: RX330. Accordingly to Gigabyte this chipset was exclusive developed for Gigabyte. This chipset competes with Intel's 865PE. Its main features are:
ATI RX330 and SB300 chipset
800/533/400 MHz FSB with Hyper-Threading Technology
