Intel’s i9 7900X has been overclocked to 6.01GHz – a new world record
Intel’s i9 7900X has been overclocked to 6.01GHz – a new world record
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The Greek overclocker Sofos1990 has been able to successfully overclock his Intel i9 7900X to 6.01GHz, a world record overclock for this CPU, which has also achieved several world records for several 10-core CPU benchmarks.Â
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This CPU has achieved a score of 12189.52 in HWBOT’s PRIME benchmark, making this CPU the fastest 10-core CPU in the world (at least in this test). This score also makes SOFOS1990’s i9 the fasted single-CPU system in this particular benchmark. Â Â
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To achieve this colossal overclock LN2 cooling was required as well as an insane vCore Voltage of 1.6V, which would be able to fry most systems when using traditional cooling methods.Â
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In terms of hardware sofos1990 used Gigabyte’s X299 SOC Champion motherboard with an i9 7900X, using a CPU multiplier of 59 and a bus speed of 102, creating a 6.01GHz overclock.Â
The memory used in this system was a set of G.Skill Trident Z memory, which was clocked to 3263MHz, with a 120GB Corsair Neutron SSD for storage and a Corsair 1500i power supply.Â
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