You heard that right. The above 7Ghz barrier has been broken and its proving to be one for the record books.
Splave overclocked the new 7th generation Intel Kaby Lake CPU which has just hit retail markets in the West.
He used an Asus ASRock Z170 OC Formula motherboard and liquid nitrogen as the coolant to achieve these results.
He made it past 7000 MHz or 7 GHz to reach 7022.96 MHz.
To achieve this number, Allen had to tweak a few things with the CPU. He had to turn 2 of the 4 cores off in the processor. He also disabled Hyper-threading and increased the core voltage from 1.2 V to 2 V.
Achieved The World Record in SuperPi 32M Benchmark
Allen used a few benchmarks to test the overclocked CPU. He achieved a world record on SuperPi 32m benchmark which makes a CPU calculate the the value of Pi to a particular number of digits.
Here are the details:
PiFast 9sec 20ms
SuperPi – 32M 4min 20sec 250ms
wPrime – 32M 2sec 953ms
wPrime – 1024m 1min 33sec 171ms
Note: wPrime calculates prime numbers up to a particular value (32 M=32 million digits).
About Overclocking
Some PC enthusiasts like to get more out of their rigs and one of the ways to achieve that is due to ‘overclocking’. Overclocking is when you boost the original frequency of the CPU or the GPU beyond their default/factory levels.
What this does is that the processor or the graphics card then performs 10-15% (or more in some cases) better than before.
Overclocking, however is also a passion for some and they do it to reach new heights in consumer level CPU/GPU performance and not just to get their software or games running better.
Intel announced at the start of December that production has finished on their new 7th generation Kaby Lake processors. This means that they were expected to arrive at retailers by the end of the month at most.
You can expect to see them in Pakistan by January or February at most.
