This week we recall a day back in August 2012 when Cam Wilmot from TweakTown paid a visit to GIGABYTE HQ to interview legendary Taiwanese overclocker Hicookie. The video he shot is well worth a look, taking place a few months after Intel’s Ivy Bridge series launched. Hicookie uses the newly arrived GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 board to push a Core i7 3770K past the 7GHz threshold. One of the cool things about the video is that Hicookie manages to introduce the new OC-specific features of the new board, the VRM design, the LN2 Mode switch and more while at the same time pouring LN2 and answering questions. He really does make overclocking look so easy. Here’s what TweakTown published in August 2012:

Earlier on today we were invited to the GIGABYTE headquarters here in Taipei where we were told we would see the Taiwanese motherboard maker and its in-house professional overclocker HiCookie try to set a new world record for the Intel Core i7 3770K processor.

Overclocking was done on the upcoming GA-Z77X-UP7 motherboard that is due to be released this coming Monday - GIGABYTE at the time of writing were not prepared to comment on pricing as it is yet to be 100% confirmed. However, you can expect the price to be fairly high as this is a board designed for overclockers and it has plenty of top notch features to help overclockers around the world set new performance records. In the video above I mentioned that the Z77X-UP7 is much like a Formula One car in its design theory. Every little tweak has been included and high-end components such as 32 CPU phases are included to help set said new records.

You can find the video from TweakTown here on their YouTube channel, as well as the original post we made back in August 2011 here.