Wednesday, May 31st 2017
Intel Core i9-7900X Overclocked To 5.7GHz Breaking Cinebench World Records
Now that Intel has officially rolled out its "Core-X" family based on the Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X CPUs, overclocking of them has begun in earnest for those lucky few who have one in hand. As per usual, benchmarkers at the extreme end of the spectrum tend to shoot for the moon no holds barred, driven by the fumes of LN2 cooling. For one lucky i9-7900X owner calling himself "Elmor," he took his rightful place among the benchmarking stars, shattering the previous Cinebench world record for a 10-core chip with a very respectable 5.7GHz final clock. His score in Cinebench R15 was 3181, while Cinebench R11.5 scored 34.79.
Elmor is of course not new at this. He has a previous record attained with a Ryzen 7 1800X early during early launch, so it seems professional overclocking is alive and well. This of course is by no means what an average OC'er should expect out of any chip, but it is still impressive and an achievement in its own right to see these chips pushed so far.
Sources:
HWBOT, HotHardware
73 Comments on Intel Core i9-7900X Overclocked To 5.7GHz Breaking Cinebench World Records
If this was done with more conventional cooling, maybe.
Spend the rest of your cash on life.
I don't value CPU's buy how far they go under LN2. It's cool for 5 seconds, but doesn't really excite me. At all. What you can get out of CPU using water cooling that is a common thing for daily use, well, that does interests me.
On a serious note, wasn't turbo boost 4.5 on those chips, making his achievement of 5.7 seem a bit lame. o_O
And i picked mine for 310$ off microcenter back then.
but hey, hey. Again, as long as we are happy with what we got eh
I remember buying i5 2500k for £180 brand new and i7 for £250... awesome!!!
Now i7 is £320 and i5 is £250.... not sure the performance increased that much did it? considering it was just a tweak on Nehalem.....
Intel can go suck a fat one for all I care, we have performance/price where it used to be 8 years ago, the force has been restored and all is good in the world!
Me? I get by without them, which means I have to spend something called money. :(
Good times indeed except,,, im soddin skint.
Its faster clock for clock...ryzen ipc is a few % slower and they are clocking higher on ln2 it seems.
i can't do that OC without LN2
...now, let me get out of your orbit. :p
If @ a lower speed, obviously it will lose VS this chip but if @ higher speed, then perhaps that would overcome it's slightly smaller IPC? Dunno, really: just wondering!