BonesJust be aware not all pots work with all boards.

So, I don't think I've ever asked this question before but how do you go about getting the liquid nitrogen? Is it something you can just grab from your local chemist? Got no idea how it works down under.
It's something I've never really looked into but always wanted to do! Thanks.

ToothlessSays 8 cores 8 threads in the screenshot. Gotta remember how densely packed these current cores are compared to old FX.

Ive read somewhere that it was just one core.

They usually pick the best clocking core out of that chip and ramp loads of voltage and cooling into it.

theoutoAlso amazed that the old FX chips can OC that high

FX was designed with a "longer pipeline" - the longer the higher you can clock your CPU.

Compared to Ryzen, Ryzen usually tops out around 6Ghz. The FX was a whole different animal.

Outback BronzeSo, I don't think I've ever asked this question before but how do you go about getting the liquid nitrogen? Is it something you can just grab from your local chemist? Got no idea how it works down under.
It's something I've never really looked into but always wanted to do! Thanks.

Usually a place that sells industrial gasses like "Airgas" has it, that's where I get mine from but it really depends on what's available where you are in those terms.
They may also have dry ice (DICE) too but over here (U.S.) some grocery stores carry it too.

You can visit or simply call your local gas vendor and ask - If they don't have it I'm sure they can tell you who does.
Also bear in mind you'll need a dewar to transport and store it too and you'd need it before going out to get some. Places like Airgas may even let you rent one too, again that's something you'd have to ask about.

Prima.Vera1KW power consumption. Nice. /s

At this point it's probably closer to two. No, not kidding here. Even with relatively low volts and ambient cooling these chips chug 350, under such extreme conditions and so far out of the efficiency curve, I bet the power consumption could make that infamous W3175X on a chiller from back when Intel revealed it look like a ULV part.

Dr. DroMe, because these are achieved on one singular processor that was hand picked several trays of 1000, on a motherboard that was tested to perform exceptionally well amongst an irrational number of boards only the manufacturer could ever sponsor, using a single memory stick that was picked from entire suitcases of memory sticks, again for significantly above the curve binning and also for a very brief period of time - it's very difficult to get it to even validate at such a high frequency.

It's an old PR stunt, but a rather pointless one. They're kind of trying to tell people that 14th gen clocks significantly better, the truth is that they don't. Intel's putting up this farce to make $INTC shareholders happy... and news sites are ravenous for clicks as always, which is why you get to see this.

Bad one, they should have used winter as a PR, imagine playing without needing a heater, or play while heating your house :D

Xex360Bad one, they should have used winter as a PR, imagine playing without needing a heater, or play while heating your house :D

That's XOC for WRs in general, not exclusive to this chip. So this isn't something related to brand loyalties.

ToothlessSays 8 cores 8 threads in the screenshot. Gotta remember how densely packed these current cores are compared to old FX.

They only OC'd a single P core to those speeds not all 8 if that were the case I'd be bloody impressed but as it's only a single core they managed to get over 9GHz yeah not so much impressed anymore

Xex360Bad one, they should have used winter as a PR, imagine playing without needing a heater, or play while heating your house :D

I wish my 12700k made enough heat to warm the whole house, it would save us on the heating.

Well, this thread devolved into a lot of "no fun allowed" posting.

Anyway, it's a neat achievement, kudos to the team who pulled it off. I'd love to see what can be done with an AMD equivalent for comparison.

As to the "purpose" of such an experiment: it's bragging rights and the "cool" factor". Same reason why the rev-heads in my family celebrate their drag car getting an under 10 second quarter-mile. It doesn't matter if the "average consumer car" won't ever reach that, it's for fun and to show off what you can make your toy do.

This is a tech forum and this is a nice little technical achievement.

Extreme OC (using any means or power) used to be something good for the customer.
Like other "experimental" divisions on any field, leads to some of the greatest products for consumer or its implementation leak to all product lines with time.

Now the product segmentation, poor marketing and RGB broke that relationship, "top tier" products are worthless whale/streamer shit (for a better definition).
They don't use most of the "features" and you probably either of 800€ cpu or 900€ motherboard, features and specs not far from a 350€ mobo.

"Extreme" products don't have better track layout in the PCBs or more coppe or better shielding or much better components, design, etc. Its not worth to do it in the production line. Its cosmetic and software-locked features. [3..2....1.. someone find a picture of "military grade caps" "200 layers pcb" pr bullshit as a counter argument when they probably can't distinguish most caps and resistors on a motherboard]

Same for cherry picked cpus. They go for plus six sigma standards. You must find 1 over a thousand or more to get something different. What do you learn from that? that statistically stronger products are stronger? Hmmm.

What is the practical result of extreme OC anymore? Branding and wastes?

I got a lucky gold CPU years ago, was so close to a WR myself

elmor did 9040mhz on 8 cores
hwbot.org/submission/5374278_elmor_cpu_frequency_core_i9_14900kf_(8p)_9043.92_mhz

everybody got some useless hobby or enjoy´s something others don´t and i would not bash yours.

FoulOnWhiteI wish my 12700k made enough heat to warm the whole house, it would save us on the heating.

Pair it with a 3090ti, unlock FPS, enable RT at 4k and use DLSS (you need to use the entire die) :D