Overclocked to 7Ghz

[afteractionreport]

http://fossbytes.com/intel-core-i7-skylake-processor-reaches-record-breaking-7ghz-clock-speeds/

A professional overclocker from Hong Kong has managed o overclock the Intel Core i7-6700L Skylake microsprocessor to nearly 7GHz clock speeds. This overclocked speed is among the highest ever achievd by any product of Intel Core-i series.

Wow...

[afteractionreport]

Nitrogen cooled...awesome...

I wonder why he had to disable the HT and some of the physical cores

Either way interesting stuff...

[Peter.Steele]

HT and extra cores generate more heat.

[stilly]

All that just to play Crisis 3 on high settings...

I hope he can at least play Minecraft; I mean, it DOES only have a single core now...

[RobertMW]

HT and extra cores generate more heat.

Yup, the biggest problem you still have in extreme OCing is that the material around the chip is acting much more like an insulator than a conductor when you are trying to pump that much heat wattage through it. So even with liquid nitrogen on the processor you are going to have an extremely cold surface, but you will be nuking the traces only a few hundred microns away.

Turn off the other cores, disable the features that actually use more processor power (remember that OCing a processor only increases the speed at which it could do processing work, have it actually do less, just at really high speed) and you are simultaneously decreasing the overall power generated (in heat) and you are increasing the surface area that will be cold, compared to the volume of the chip actually generating heat.

[billofrights]

It hasn't really been worth it to me to overclock for several years now. More power/ heat for incremental gains of a few FPS isn't worth it. Same reason I usually go with the #2 CPU/ videocard model available when I build a system- I'm getting 90% of the performance for usually around 60% of the price.

[bohoki]

multicore is the same theory as the gatling gun if you want more firepower add more barrels

[Whiterabbit]

Nothing new. Just like back in the days, a gentleman making a LN2 cooled fluorinert cooled system to achieve extreme levels of overclocking. There are still inherrent hardware limits that will affect stability.

I agree with the "no need" camp. Tech is so far beyond current SW needs I can't believe there hasn't been a major crash in hardware sales.

[arzelee]

Seriously 6700k man I'm still on that 2600k

[2shotjoe]

i'm on a i5-3330 still. i'll still wait until this computer is fried, like last time.

[RobertMW]

Seriously 6700k man I'm still on that 2600k

If I remember correctly I'm on a 4770. Enough power to last me for years to come if current performance indicates anything. My GPU is my current graphics limiter, and has been for a while, and game designers are finding more and more ways to offload to the massively parallel processing of GPU pipelines, so I don't see that as changing any time soon.

[Sliik]

what a beast.

[noob_tube]

Kewl!

I recently built a new rig with an i5 4690k. Haven't had a need to overclock it. Maybe in a year or two when games get even thirstier for resources...

[pepsi2451]

Thats cool but the 4790k broke 7ghz over a year ago and they only had to disable 2 cores.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nick-shih-overclock-i7-4790k,27077.html

This guy did 6ghz with all cores and hyper threading still active.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intel-core-i7-4790k-devils-canyon-overclocked-to-6ghz-with-all-cores-active/

My 4790k is nice and stable at 4.5ghz which is plenty for me for now.

[Justintoxicated]

I overclock my systems, they run cooler than stock with the right watercooling and or delidding the CPUs. They are rock stable as I severely test all them them. Liquid Nitrogen ovclocking just to get a system to post or run an app real quick does not interest me. Heck overclocking to the point where I can detect any system instability isn't worth it to me either. But I'll take an extra 1k Mhz if it's stable running that way.

I go against the trend in the way I overclock, which for me means 24-7 test of the biggest baddest stress test out there. Hell these days most PC's that are NOT overclocked won't run these on air cooling, as the temps get out of control and throttling initiates as they are not real world loads.