By Darren Allan
Intel’s new monster Core i9 processors boasting 18-cores and 16-cores have just gone on sale, and Asus has set some blistering new records overclocking these CPUs with its ROG Rampage VI Apex motherboard.
Using the Core i9-7980XE 18-core processor (with a base clock of 2.6GHz, Turbo to 4.2GHz) cooled with liquid nitrogen to around -100°C, expert ROG overclocker ‘der8auer’ managed to push the chip to 6.104GHz across all 18 cores (at 1.55V).
All without the CPU being reduced to a melted pile of goop, although the system wasn’t stable enough to run benchmarks at this speed.
To get some testing done, things had to be toned down to 5.6GHz with a voltage of 1.45V, at which point the multi-threaded Cinebench R15 benchmark could be run – Asus notes that there was almost 1000W coursing through the system.
The Cinebench R15 CPU score notched up was 5,635, a mind-boggling figure when you consider it almost doubled the previous record of 2,990 (another overclocker, ‘elmor’, pushed the chip even further to set a new record of 5,723).
New records were also achieved in 3DMark Vantage 2x with the CPU at 5.66GHz, with Italian overclocker ‘Rsannino’ achieving a score of 138,185 (compared to the previous record of …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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