Monday, January 13th 2025
Intel Core i9-14900KF Sets New Overclocking World Record at 9121.61 MHz
While Intel is busy with its new Core Ultra 200S series of "Arrow Lake-S" processors for desktops, the start of 2025 is brining some interesting news for the last-generation Intel Core i9-14900KF CPU. The "Raptor Lake" CPU, without a working iGPU has officially broken overclocking world record and reached further into the 10 GHz dream. Achieved by an overclocker named "Wytiwx", the new world record is now sitting in at 9121.61 MHz, beating the previous 9117.75 MHz record held by "Elmor" by 3.8 MHz. This officially breaks Elmor's rule which started in 2022 and currently holds second, third, fourth, and fifth place in the leaderboard. We are curious if the new overclocker will maintain his lead, or if someone new will try to come out on top. Interestingly, for the new world record, Wytiwx used ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 APEX motherboard with CPU cooled by LN2. The run was validated on Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, which is an interesting choice for overclockers as previous records have also been set using Windows 7.
Sources:
CPU-Z Validator, via SkatterBencher
24 Comments on Intel Core i9-14900KF Sets New Overclocking World Record at 9121.61 MHz
Windows 7 still has its uses I suppose. I wish NV would release a one-off, unsupported driver release that allows Ada and Blackwell to run on that OS, but you gotta stick to Ampere and earlier if you want to...
That would be impressive, not this.
Besides that, most users are fine with an unstable OC as long as its stable enough for like 6h of gaming a day. Only Workstations need to run 24/7.
P-Core SP rating binned probably higher than 115-SP to start with. May have taken 3 trays of processors to find one that promises high clocks.
9ghz peak means 8ghz+ benchmarking in most cases. At least couple guys on our team have benched 8ghz on Raptor for sure.
If you truly cant imagine it, I have pics from my last one if I can be bothered to send them later.
Maybe you should stop being an ass?
P.S. I have had quite a few OC world records in different categories (CPU, GPU, RAM, air, water, or LN2 cooling, etc., long since beaten to be clear) since the late '90s. Most of them were achieved either alone or only with a couple of friends around, and uploaded to the DBs as expected (running the expected software validation when this started being a thing). Some were done in local mini-competitions, and others in larger international settings. All of them were equally valid because they proved the same thing, grand prize or not.