Intel’s Core i9-13900Ok has set a brand new world report overclock for a desktop processor, breaking the 9GHz mark for the primary time ever.

Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab) noticed {that a} staff of overclocking specialists from Asus (opens in new tab) managed to get the Raptor Lake flagship to achieve 9.008GHz. Naturally, that was with unique cooling (liquid nitrogen and liquid helium, on this case) with the CPU nestled in an Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex motherboard (and a ROG Thor 1600W Titanium as the facility provide).

There was some rigidity within the record-breaking shot at 9GHz, with the staff hitting 8.9GHz and developing a bit quick – and operating into hurdles resembling a frozen USB port that disabled the keyboard and wasted time. In the long run, there was solely sufficient liquid helium left for a remaining shot – which noticed the 9.008GHz pace achieved.

The overclocking session additionally produced a few different world information for the 13900Ok processor, particularly PiFast being completed in 6.85 seconds, and SuperPI 32M being accomplished in Three minutes 3.788 seconds.

Evaluation: Psychological barrier damaged

This can be a massive deal for Intel within the overclocking sphere as a result of for the longest time earlier than Raptor Lake arrived, AMD dominated the roost on the high of the supercharged CPU rankings. AMD’s FX 8370 was the champ, to be exact, with an overclock of 8.722GHz, however its lengthy reign was ended just lately by Elmor (who was concerned on this new overclock) who hit simply over 8.8GHz, and has now pushed previous the 9GHz barrier.

The 9GHz mark is a type of psychological milestones that make you assume it may not be too lengthy earlier than we see a processor that may truly high 10GHz; who is aware of? Definitely, there might be room for the 13900Ok to be pushed additional, although it received’t get wherever close to that prime, after all.

Overclocking like this isn’t related to the typical consumer, given all of the caveats which don’t simply embody ridiculous cooling, but additionally tweaking the CPU to show off the effectivity cores and hyper-threading (so all that’s operating is simply Eight naked efficiency cores, with Eight threads). Nonetheless, it does present that Raptor Lake and the Core i9-13900Ok particularly have some nice overclocking potential, even for these utilizing extra mundane liquid or air cooling methods.

Don’t overlook that Intel has the 13900KS ready within the wings too, the particular version of the flagship, which the chip large has already instructed us boosts to 6GHz out of the field, with no overclocking wanted. We would see this as quickly as subsequent month, or actually early in 2023 as promised by Intel.

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