Monday, December 26th 2016
Intel Core i7-7700K Cracks 7 GHz Bench-Stable Overclock
It may have practically no IPC gains over its predecessor, but Intel's 7th generation Core "Kaby Lake" unlocked processors are shaping up to be an overclocker's delight. A Core i7-7700K sample tested by professional overclocker Allen "Splave" Golibersuch was able to breach the 7 GHz barrier. To achieve this feat however, HyperThreading was disabled, and two of the four CPU cores were also disabled.
Paired with an ASRock Z170 OC Formula motherboard, the i7-7700K was bench-stable at 7022.96 MHz, at the chip's maximum base clock multiplier of 69x, and a base-clock of 101.78 MHz. The Vcore voltage was set at a scorching 2.00V. The chip crunched PiFast in 9.02 seconds, SuperPi 32M in 4 minutes 20.25 seconds, wPrime 32M in 2.953 seconds, and wPrime 1024M in 1 minute 33.171 seconds. Paired with an ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX OC graphics card, it scored 643,316 points in Aquamark, and 86,798 points in 3DMark 05.
Source:
OCLab.ru
Paired with an ASRock Z170 OC Formula motherboard, the i7-7700K was bench-stable at 7022.96 MHz, at the chip's maximum base clock multiplier of 69x, and a base-clock of 101.78 MHz. The Vcore voltage was set at a scorching 2.00V. The chip crunched PiFast in 9.02 seconds, SuperPi 32M in 4 minutes 20.25 seconds, wPrime 32M in 2.953 seconds, and wPrime 1024M in 1 minute 33.171 seconds. Paired with an ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX OC graphics card, it scored 643,316 points in Aquamark, and 86,798 points in 3DMark 05.
78 Comments on Intel Core i7-7700K Cracks 7 GHz Bench-Stable Overclock
I hope AMD doesn't phenomenally fail, and go under the bulldozer.
Its not a real over clock if you disable cores...
I would be happy to getting back in to ocing but it's expensive when you don't have sponsors and it's lots of fun killing stuff lol
I guess some people don't get the logistics of overclocking...
What's really sad, is that after a year of doing nothing I went from #11 on TPU team up to #8 :banghead:
Not even sure if there are any active members left...
wait, what? you can run kaby lake on windows xp?you misspelled pentium dual core,
Here's a full list of his submissions with 7700K:
hwbot.org/search/submissions/permalink?username=Splave&cpuId=5271So as overclocking in general. Or car tuning. Or competitive eating. Or yoga.
Fun does not have "practical applications"
As @EarthDog and @cdawall have lamented, it's not performed as an indicator of how fast the chips will run 24/7 but how fast they can run balls out.
EDIT: Thanks for the hwbot link. Interesting