

In this chart WR stands for “world record” and GFP is “global first place.”Īs you can see an overclocker named Splave has almost claimed a clean sweep of all the records. It’s unclear what model of memory sticks were used, as the HWBot leader board only lists “Samsung.” Although TSAIK took the top spot for highest overclock, one look at the HWBot standings shows another overclocker holds the most benchmark records. As evidence of this has only two DIMM slots and 19+2 power phases. His CPU was strapped to an MSI MEG Unify-X motherboard, which is a Z690 board designed for extreme overclocking. According to Tom’s Hardware, this is a 35 percent boost over typical 1C/2T overclocks.

MSI Team overclocker TSAIK was able to take Intel’s chip up to 7.45GHz, but to do it he had to use just a single P-core. For the uninitiated, LN2 is around 320 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, so it can keep a CPU pretty cold. Binned chips like this are tantalizing for extreme overclockers, and one of them has already taken Intel’s newest CPU to an insane clock speed of 7,450.62MHz using liquid nitrogen (LN2). This is slightly higher than the vanilla 12900K’s maximum boost clock of 5.2GHz. Right off the shelf it offers a two-core boost clock of 5.5GHz and an all-core clock of 5.2GHz. The headline feature of this CPU is that it’s a binned 12900K CPU, so it’s been pre-selected as offering the most headroom from Intel’s silicon stockpile. While those two chips will go head-to-head in real world gaming benchmarks soon, overclockers are already having a field day with Intel’s latest silicon. Intel’s flagship Core i9-12900KS CPU came out recently to do battle with AMD’s V-Cache enabled Ryzen 5800X3D.
