An experienced overclocker has heavily overclocked his Intel i9-7900X processor and broke many HWBOT records. And to keep things cool he used liquid nitrogen to keep the temperatures in the limit. SOFOS1990 (the overclocker) reached to 6GHz and slightly beyond, hitting 6,016MHz with a vCore of 1.6V. This overclock came in over a month after the processor set new benchmark records in Cinebench at 5.7 Ghz.
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The Core i9-7900X is part of Intel’s new Core X-series, which comprises both Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X CPUs. This CPU is that it offers up 44 PCI-Express lanes to play with. This is helpful for fully loaded builds that are running multiple graphics cards and multiple NVMe solid state drives, all of which direct traffic through the PCI-E bus. Core i9-7900X is a 10-core processor that retails for over $1,000. It supports Hyper Threading, has 13.75 MB of cache, and comes clocked out of the box at 3.3 GHz with a max Turbo frequency of 4.3GHz (4.5GHz via Turbo Boost 3.0).
For this overclock, SOFOS1990 plopped the Core i9-7900X into a Gigabyte X299 SOC Champion motherboard. It was flanked by 4GB of G.Skill Trident Z RAM, a 120GB Corsair Neutron GTX SSD, and a beefy Corsair Professional Series Gold 1,500 power supply. Pumping 1.6V through a Skylake-X CPU is a surefire way to zap the chip without proper cooling. In this case, LN2 was used. By applying LN2, SOFOS1990 was able to keep the CPU nice and frosty at -110C. His overclock to 6.01GHz now stands as the highest achieved on a 10-core CPU. It also netted him 12,189.52 points in HWBOT, the most ever for a single processor.
Although this overclock might have little to no use practically but it does give us a glimpse of how much power a processor could pack. Tell us what you think about this overclock in the comments and register with us for the best in gaming, and join us for video game discussions on our forums.
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