What simply occurred? It is solely been a couple of days for the reason that Core i9-13900K was launched however Swedish overclocker Elmor has already used it to interrupt the report for the best clock velocity ever reached (and validated): an unimaginable 8812.85 MHz.
In line with HWBot, the report final modified palms eight years in the past when an AMD FX-8370 was pushed to 8722 MHz. CPU-Z says that the report has been held by an AMD FX-8350 clocked at 8794 MHz for even longer than that, however each websites agree that the 13900K was the primary CPU to move 8.8 GHz and is the present champion.
It is also the primary Intel CPU to wrest the report away from AMD in current reminiscence — a minimum of a decade.
Additionally see: Intel Core i9-13900K Overview: Scorching and Hungry
At default settings, the 13900K will clock in at 5.8 GHz on as many P-cores as this system can use earlier than winding down to five.0-5.5 GHz because it heats up. It might in all probability maintain these greater clocks if it might maintain cool however even giant AIOs appear to wrestle to include its ~300 W bundle. At the least it is a wonderful candidate for dwelling heating and overclocking with unique cooling.
Elmor used LN2 (liquid nitrogen) to relax the CPU through the report try at a pre-release overclocking occasion held by Asus. They poured the LN2 into their very own homegrown ElmorLabs Volcano pot, which appears prefer it makes use of an uncommon quantity of copper, judging from their picture.
Rounding out their system was an Asus Z790 ROG Maximus Apex motherboard and 32 GB of DDR5-4800. Their picture exhibits a Lepa G1600 energy provide off to the aspect. And, after all, they caught with Home windows 7.
By way of the CPU configuration, the overclock was primarily based on a 100.15 MHz bus clock and used an x88.0 multiplier utilized to the sixth P-core. The rest of the P-cores had been left on the 3 GHz base clock and the 16 E-cores had been disabled. Elmor did not share the voltages or temperatures, however maybe a future report try shared to YouTube could have these particulars.
Much more spectacular than simply the report is that it was achieved with an engineering pattern. It is seemingly that the clock velocity report will edge upwards as different excessive overclockers get their palms on binned 13900K manufacturing samples that may be pushed that little bit additional.