Intel’s Core i7-8086K proves its overclocking potential as it hits 7.24GHz

By Darren Allan

Intel only just revealed its beefy Core i7-8086K back at the start of the week at Computex 2018, yet the anniversary edition processor has already been overclocked by an expert to hit a speed of 7.24GHz across all six of its cores.

This was achieved by Der8auer (a big name in the world of overclocking) over at Computex, using the usual liquid nitrogen cooling method (chilling the chip to negative 185 degrees Celsius) to prevent the CPU from overheating or melting into an unidentifiable lump of silicon.

Der8auer shows the process in a YouTube video (below) where he explained that he more or less used the same presets as when previously overclocking Intel’s 8700K, and that the new 8086K anniversary chip is essentially a “good pretest 8700K”.

As Windows Latest reports, he professed the belief that he could break the record he previously set with a 7.3GHz overclock on the 8700K. Obviously 7.24GHz is pretty close to that anyway as a starting point for a first attempt, and what you have to bear in mind is that there was a far more limited selection of processors available in this case.

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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components