Fate gave our editorial staff the opportunity to end the outgoing year with thematic news about the achievement of a German enthusiast CENSUS in the field of extreme overclocking. He has been experimenting for several weeks with an Intel Core i9-14900KF processor and a variety of hardware that allows him to overclock it using liquid nitrogen. The ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore motherboard was combined with G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB RAM, and Bitspower and K|ngp|n Cooling accessories were responsible for cooling.
Image source: HWBot, CENS
Apparently, the processor heat spreader cover was polished or even replaced with an alternative one; liquid nitrogen was used to cool both the central processor and memory modules with a total capacity of 2 x 16 GB. With a processor voltage of 1.37 V, we were able to pass the SuperPI 32M test at a frequency of 8383 MHz with two powerful cores and two threads active. The result was 3 minutes 1.156 seconds, and it is considered a new world record. The dual-channel memory operated in DDR5-9088 mode with timings of 32-47-44-36 (2T), which is also impressive in itself.
