CPU-Z Renders GIGABYTE's 8 GHz Alder Lake Overclocking Record Invalid

[AleksandarK]

A couple of days ago, GIGABYTE boasted with an overclocking record made using one of the company's motherboards. Allegedly, the company has achieved a world record of Alder Lake overclocking, causing the CPU to go up to 8 GHz frequency. However, such a claim was rather sketchy, according to the CPU-Z developer "Doc TB." In the later investigation, he concluded that the submission took advantage of a false reporting algorithm that gave HiCookie and GIGABYTE a chance to submit a world record as validated by the CPU-Z validator program. Further investigation concluded that the program reported incorrect numbers, and GIGABYTE's world record of 8 GHz on Alder Lake had been made invalid as of now.

The CPU-Z validation team is working hard to update the validation algorithm and make it more challenging for false submissions to appear valid. One interesting thing to point out is that HiCookie and GIGABYTE have already attempted to post false records with the launch of AMD's Ryzen 5000 series of processors, where they claimed that the CPU managed to reach 6,362.16 MHz, where in reality it was running at 5,683.94 MHz. This overclocker submitted those faulty results to HWBot as fake at the time and has now done it again.


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[R0H1T]

Age clock fudging huh

 

[KarymidoN]

man Always gigabyte and their shenanigans, my biggest regret in PC build was buying a mobo from this brand.

 

[The King]

Granted their marketing is terrible and their recent PSU issues.

They have made some really great products over the years from GPUs to Motherboards.
Many of there products reviewed here on TPU are generally positive.

Don't let one or two bad incidents label the entire brand has negative or bad.

 

[Zubasa]

man Always gigabyte and their shenanigans, my biggest regret in PC build was buying a mobo from this brand.

This is really unfortunate, Gigabyte does actually make some really decent boards in the recent generations.

 

[AleksandarK]

Granted their marketing is terrible and their recent PSU issues.

They have made some really great products over the years from GPUs to Motherboards.
Many of there products reviewed here on TPU are generally positive.

GIGABYTE products tend to be great, as some of our reviews show. We review with no bias, so despite their poor marketing decisions, it doesn't mean that the company has bad products.

 

[P4-630]

man Always gigabyte and their shenanigans, my biggest regret in PC build was buying a mobo from this brand.

Had used a few P31 UD boards of them in the past, they were ok though besides the rainbow colors....

 

[chispy]

Told you guys on the recent news post about this false claim , false marketing , cheat scores by Hicoockie. He tried 3 times to submit 8Ghz bug scores , all 3 were invalidated and confirm cheat by cpu-z developer. Not the first time he has done this ...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1456253859228045314

https://twitter.com/x/status/1456253859228045314

 

[Turmania]

Hiccookie is finished. Gibabyte suffered major public relations disaster...

 

[Bones]

Told you guys on the recent news post about this false claim , false marketing , cheat scores by Hicoockie. He tried 3 times to submit 8Ghz bug scores , all 3 were invalidated and confirm cheat by cpu-z developer. Not the first time he has done this ...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1456253859228045314

Had posted earlier either here (or elsewhere) about this and said to wait a see what goes - The truth will come out sooner or later.
And I guess it has.

I suppose Roman won't have any choice but to severely penalize or perma-ban him at this point.
Either way - What a waste.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Toughcookie more like

 

[Aretak]

man Always gigabyte and their shenanigans, my biggest regret in PC build was buying a mobo from this brand.

Yeah, you could have bought one from Asus instead, who abused and threatened to sue Hardware Unboxed for pointing out the major flaws of the TUF Gaming A15 laptop. Or MSI, who try to bribe reviewers and scalp their own products. Or ASRock, who flipped out over people noting that their Z490 boards were crap and blacklisted a bunch of outlets, including Gamers Nexus.

You might as well accept you're going to be buying from scummy companies no matter what you do if you're into building PCs.

 

[chrcoluk]

There is some very odd decisions made by the board vendors, I have seen issues pointed out in recent years that should have never passed quality control.

The Z chipsets are overclocking chipsets, yet boards were made with it that couldnt handle overclocking. I remember many years ago even a low end Z chipset board could do reasonable levels of overclocking and no locked bios options, but now its becoming more and more as if they only care about the premium boards working properly.

 

[b1k3rdude]

So despite several comments and myself reporting the post for mis-information I see its still up?

 

[RH92]

So despite several comments and myself reporting the post for mis-information I see its still up?

You what ?

 

[R-T-B]

So despite several comments and myself reporting the post for mis-information I see its still up?

What's wrong about this post?

 

[zlobby]

I wonder how many others are also invalid?

 

[Turmania]

I can see, company will put blame on their in house tester.and try cover it up.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

One of these days Gigabyte will have something go their way, instead of blowing up.

 

[AleksandarK]

So despite several comments and myself reporting the post for mis-information I see its still up?

If you are referring to the original PR of GIGABYTE record, it is still up as a good reference. Was news at the time, and treated as such.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

There is some very odd decisions made by the board vendors, I have seen issues pointed out in recent years that should have never passed quality control.

The Z chipsets are overclocking chipsets, yet boards were made with it that couldnt handle overclocking. I remember many years ago even a low end Z chipset board could do reasonable levels of overclocking and no locked bios options, but now its becoming more and more as if they only care about the premium boards working properly.

ASRock's "Phantom Gaming 4" line immediately comes to mind.

 

[Hardware Geek]

If you are referring to the original PR of GIGABYTE record, it is still up as a good reference. Was news at the time, and treated as such.

It's sad the company would resort to such tactics for publicity.

 

[Flanker]

PR @ Gigabyte right now

 

[Jism]

AMD FX still holds the record. And attempting to CPU-validate a clock alone is'nt that spectacular. Like you coud'nt do anything else with the system at all.

Would be more fantastic to see CPU's actually reach 6GHz on water, for consumers or so.

 

[Fungi]

Gigabyte has been doing so much wrong recently they've earned a spot on my do not buy list along with WD. I do own some Gigabyte products myself but they have some serious cleaning up to do.