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
i7-7700K on ASUS ROG Maximus IX Formula mother board with EK liquid cooling!
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with this kit the 7700K should be rock solid @5.3 GHz to 5.4 GHz I'm expecting. @1.30v
And even at those clocks, the AMD's are still slower than intel.. :pYour expectations are WAY out of whack dude. You'd be lucky to see 1.3V at 5ghz is my guess...Not long.. but who cares... it's meant for quick runs, it's not a daily driver.
... ignorance and a lack of understanding is preceding many people... :(
We need more interesting details about how did he achieve this.
As for the second part...even though I have had plenty of experience using LN2 and benching at Hwbot, even if he handed me that chip we see in the screenshots, I would bet I couldn't reproduce those results. What the kiddos play here and ambient overclocking and just needing to touch multi and vcore (in most cases) isn't what the game is like on LN2. But, they choose to hate on the hobby...... can't win em all. :)
It's more easy if you get chips to test for the best one that's the good part of having sponsors:p
Did Intel just pay this guy to steal the spotlight from AMD Ryzen?
It's like looking at a Nascar and asking what is the point of it over a car.
Intel didn't pay this guy to do that...wow.
Otherwise you would appreciate/recognize the importance of this vs skylake overclockability.
Thats why your judgement and mindset is pretty much (unfortunately) "not on point".
Sorry for being harsh though but if you can't really judge what is good "xoc-wise" then stick to the air/water ocability that will probably please you all (5+ GHz on air vs a maximum of 4.7/4.8 on good skylake chips). :)Which is only good for reference speed/frequency and not actual performance (benchmarks), as mentioned above.