Asus Overclocking Intel Core i9-13900K By Doing This

The elusive 9GHz clock speed was surpassed by overclockers. Here is how they achieved it. Recently, Asus revealed that its staff had broken yet another world record, this time by drastically overclocking the Intel Core i9-13900K. The CPU was able to beat the previous record of 8.8GHz and reach a staggering 9.009GHz. A video posted by Intel details the entire procedure, which included some rather creative solutions. The Core i9-13900K from Intel, a recent Raptor Lake CPU, is unquestionably one of the greatest CPUs available right now. The majority of us will utilize it for work, gaming, and other purposes in between, but when a machine like this is in the hands of extreme overclocking fans, amazing things can happen. The team had to improvise and get inventive in order to reach that 9GHz milestone with the CPU and an Asus ROG Maximus Z790 motherboard. The overclockers first deactivated hyperthreading and turned off all of the efficiency cores (E-cores). The CPU was only using eight performance (P) cores and eight threads at that time. Liquid nitrogen is frequently used to assist with overclocking at this level, however it wasn't enough to surpass the 9GHz ceiling. The researchers finally used a mixture of liquid helium and liquid nitrogen (LN2). Due to its low operating temperature of -269 degrees Celsius, liquid helium might be challenging. The Core i9-13900K needed that to stay stable, and SkatterBencher says the chip handled the pressure effectively in the video that Intel supplied. But the group also encountered issues like the USB ports freezing and the motherboard being too chilly. In order to achieve the 9.009GHz record, they ultimately had to cool the CPU while preheating the motherboard. The CPU was able to run SuperPi 32M for a total of 3 minutes and 3 seconds, and PiFast for 6.85 seconds. Up until now, the 9GHz CPU frequency barrier has been elusive. Only the Asus team appears to have hit 9GHz so far out of the many expert overclockers that have attempted it. The Core i9-13900K, however, is not the first processor to reach extraordinarily high clock speeds. The CPU recently reached 8.8GHz, breaking the previous record, but as we now know, the triumph was fleeting. Fun fact: Elmor, who was also engaged in today's 9GHz victory, is the owner of the most recent Core i9-13900K victory. Prior to it, the less-than-impressive AMD FX-8370, with a clock speed of 8.722GHz, held the distinction of highest CPU frequency. Even though AMD's Ryzen technology, which debuted later, was superior to that array of CPUs, it tends to respond particularly well to liquid nitrogen and overclocking in general. The amount of time it took AMD to reclaim the top rank for fastest clock speed is impressive. AMD was in charge from the time the 8.722GHz record was set in 2014 until October of this year. Raptor Lake finally intervened and smashed the record, and thanks to Asus, the Intel Core i9-13900K currently holds first and second spot.