What simply occurred? Overclocking fanatic der8auer lately took a visit to Intel’s OC lab in Portland, Oregon. Throughout his go to, he was allowed to see how far he might push Chipzilla’s new Core i9-13900HK cell CPU. The outcomes are spectacular and didn’t take a lot work to realize, though there are a couple of footnotes to pay attention to.
Utilizing an inside Intel instrument referred to as ROC (quick for actual time overclocking) together with prototype {hardware}, der8auer was in a position to push the 13900HK to six.0GHz with relative ease earlier than it locked up. That is fairly spectacular for a cell chip though once more, he was utilizing prototype {hardware} and software program.
der8auer described ROC as a slim model of Intel’s Excessive Tuning Utility (XTU) that is very intuitive, lean and clear. ROC is just not accessible to the general public and sadly, der8auer stated he’s not sure if that can ever change.
The air cooling answer on the CPU can be beefier than what you’d usually discover stuffed in a laptop computer (however nonetheless nothing tremendous spectacular in comparison with a excessive finish desktop cooler), so hold that in thoughts. Nonetheless, der8auer stated it’s the highest frequency he’s conscious of for a cell chip.
A few months again, der8auer struggled to hit 5.6GHz on a pocket book CPU with dry ice.
As you willl see, the reference validation platforms featured within the video are arguably extra attention-grabbing than the overclocking itself. The primary customized board we’re proven is overflowing with distinctive options not discovered on client motherboards together with a hot-swappable chipset that may be changed with out having to flash the BIOS, a one DIMM per channel reminiscence configuration, and unprecedented entry to the CPU.
Additionally it is attention-grabbing that Intel makes use of BGA chips as a substitute of LGA processors for validation testing.
der8auer stated that along with this video, he has already shot two different segments and is planning on doing no less than yet one more. If you’re in any respect excited about {hardware} happenings, you will not remorse the 17-minute funding.