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What you get when you Overclock the INTEL CORE i9-7980XE

You get a Byte crunching monster with clockspeeds of over 6GHz, pulling 1000 watts of power while its at it.


Youtuber der8auer successfully achieved this with intel's latest processor, the Intel Core i9-7980XE (Skylake X) processor. How does one do this you might ask, well for a process the takes up that much amount of energy per time a cooling mechanism has to be in place, so essentially our overclocker submerged the processor in liquid Nitrogen, and in addition to that he applied lots of thermal paste both to the CPU and the die, This according to der8auer would prevent a loss of about 400MHz when the CPU is loaded.


The result of this heist was a 18 core chip running at 6.1GHz, (all 18 of em). How fast is this??, well the Asus Predator's Intel core i7 7700k processor runs turbo at 4.2GHz and can be overclocked to just 4.5GHz, so there's that. This guy also tried overclocking the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X processor but the results of that was a lesser 5.4GHz on all 16 cores. This gives a benchmark score of 4514 on CineBench R15. Running the Core i9's processor at 5.6GHz on this same benchmark he got a better score of 5635.
Whats interesting is that at 5.5GHz the CPU alone draws up to 840 watts ( 12V 70A), though at 6.0GHz power consumption increases to 1000W.


Whats more, der8auer decided to throw in an Nvidia Titan Xp graphics card soaked in liquid Nitrogen (cause why not), setting a single card 3DMark record of 45,705 in 3DMark 11, 35,782 in 3DMark Fire Strike, and 120,425 in 3DMark Vantage. Go Nvidia.

Check out der8auer's video down here