Intel’s latest flagship Core i9-13900K processor has now broken an eight-year world record when it comes to clock rate during extreme overclocking. A record previously held by AMD’s FX-8370.
For eight years, AMD can boast of having created the most overclocked processor of all. In 2014, the record was set with an AMD FX-8370 which, with the help of liquid nitrogen, could be pushed to an insane 8,722.78 MHz.
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Overclocking was done by the Elmor overclocker using an Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex motherboard and liquid nitrogen. Intel’s latest flagship comes from the factory with a clock rate that can reach up to 5.8 GHz. Elmor has thus managed to squeeze an extra three gigahertz from the new processor.
The Intel Raptor Lake architecture is still current, so it remains to be seen how long this record will last. Intel will also launch a variant of the Core i9-13900K that offers clock rates of over six gigahertz next year. Something said to be a hand-picked variant precisely because of its characteristics of reaching high clock rates. This could therefore be a device that we see topping the clock rate record charts once launched.
