A few days ago we published the most in-depth analysis you can find on the Intel Core i9-13900K and Core i5-13600K, some tests that yielded a devastating result in terms of power, showing that the new generation of Intel has been hitting very hard, and that if in its standard configuration it already offers spectacular performance, If we enter the sands of the overclock the result can leave us with our mouths open.
It was more than imaginable, therefore, that the community dedicated to taking components to the extreme was waiting with open arms for the arrival of Intel’s new top of the range to check, with the right components, where is the limit of the Intel Core i9-13900K, a milestone that may already have been reached, although we can still count the days since its arrival on the market. And it is that the speed reached in this test seems difficult to overcome. Although, as we already know, when speaking of overclock the word impossible is extremely rare, at least as long as the components don’t end up melting.
And it is that, as we can read in TechPowerUp, the Swedish overclocker «elmor» has managed to run an Intel Core i9-13900K at 8,812 gigahertz. For context, let’s take a moment to remember the specifications of this processor, in terms of speed:
- Eight high-performance cores and sixteen threads at 3GHz-5.5GHz, normal and turbo mode, up to 5.8GHz with Intel Thermal Velocity Boost Technology.
- Sixteen high-efficiency cores at 2.2GHz-4.3GHz, normal and turbo mode.
Thus, we are talking about a jump of three gigahertz, from the 5.8 GHz of the high-performance cores using Intel Thermal Velocity Boost technology, to the 8.812 gigahertz achieved by elmor in this test.
Obviously, we are not talking about something available to everyone. As you probably already imagined, the overclocker had to use un liquid nitrogen based cooling system which, thanks to its exceptionally low temperature, equal to or less than -195.8 degrees Celsius, allowed the core voltage to be adjusted to 1,325 volts, the multiplier to x88, and a bus speed of 100.15 megahertz. For the test, elmor used an ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 APEX motherboard and GSKILL 32 GB DDR5 memory at 4808 MT/s.
With this successful test, elmor has become the world record in overclocking, reaching and surpassing the result obtained by the overclocker The Stilt more than eight years ago, when he managed to take an AMD FX-8370 up to 8,722 gigahertza brand that remained unbeatable until now.
Obviously, this performance can only be achieved in a very limited way, and only with the right components, but it is a very interesting example of how far the performance of a beast like the Intel Core i9-13900K can be scaled. And, of course, also one more sign that the common mortals can resort, with confidence, to solutions such as Instant 6GHz, from Gigabyte, to get more out of the processor.
