Overclocking leads the Intel Core i9 to exceed 6 GHz

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The Intel Core i9 was born to break records. The best processor from Intel will leave us many interesting headlines now that half the world seems to have set out to squeeze the limits of physics with its performance, and the protagonist of the last case of extreme overclocking has been the Intel Core i9-7900X, which even Is the most powerful of the company's processors. Even so, they have surpassed 6 GHz with it.

Following the record numbers achieved by the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, and after the 7.5 GHz reached the Intel Core i7 with cooling liquid helium, this time it was the turn to the processors on the highest rung Of the Intel Core family. The Intel Core i9-7900X, with the help of liquid nitrogen cooling, has reached 6.016 MHz by the hand of a Gigabyte X299 motherboard (there is a version available for just over 300 euros right now).

The author of this overclocking of the Intel Core i9-7900X has been more than well known in the SOFOS1990 world, and his feat leaves in diapers the 4.5 GHz that in the best case obtains this processor through the Turbo Boost 3.0. We are speaking, of course, of a processor whose official price in stores outstrips the 1,000 euros (and that is not the most expensive, since the Intel Core i9-7980XE - the highest range - reaches up to 2,000 euros ).

In addition to the Gigabyte motherboard, to achieve this overclocking of the Intel Core i9 it was necessary to also use a DDR4 RAM of G.Skill Trident Z (whose price can reach up to 800 euros if we decide for the version of 64 GB ), A Corsair AX 1500 power supply and a 120GB Corsair Neutron GTX SSD. Since carrying the processor up to a voltage of 1.6V is an unthinkable task without a refrigeration in conditions, in this overclocking could not miss the recurring use of liquid nitrogen to keep the temperature under control.

In fact, to achieve these clock speeds it is necessary for the processor to be at a temperature that could never be reached under normal conditions. In this case, the author of this record decided to decrease the temperature of the components up to -110c (as you can see in the temperature measurement apparatus in the photograph on the cover).

Of course, these extreme tests serve only and exclusively to demonstrate what a processor is capable of if you apply the most crude overclocking techniques that exist today. As it comes from the factory, this i9-7900X processor is more than ready to reach 3.3 GHz clock speed without messing, a figure more than enough for everyday use that a user will make of this component.