Intel Core i7-7700K Cracks 7 GHz Bench-Stable Overclock

[64K]

This a "kind of but not really" record. Disabling HT and turning off 2 cores means its not a 7700k anymore in my opinion.

Basically an overclocked i3 then, with no practical usage...

Not even an i3 because those have HT iirc.

 

[Cybrnook2002]

Look at dem volts!

+1

 

[lukart]

Its all true, but It feels good to see my motherboard still being to crack some records

 

[BiggieShady]

Practical application you ask ... it has practical application of reaching 7 GHz ... It's seven gigahertz for fuck sake, here is some more practicality of it: it's hard to achieve, practically impossible

 

[chaosmassive]

Only two cores working to achieve this? Ok fine. Well, why not simply disable all cores and see how high the clock circuit will go? I'm sure we could hit 10GHz or more with that. /sarcasm

you sir, also dead wrong, it hitting toward infinite Ghz and caused universe to collapse because 0 cores running.

 

[crow1001]

Yawn

 

[jabbadap]

If it's done with that bubblegum under the heat spreader, I'm impressed. Otherwise it's mostly meh...

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I dont care how many cores....7ghz is 7ghz......................

 

[Dave65]

Four cores or I could care less..

 

[Assimilator]

While it may not be true/useful/etc., it's still impressive to see a chip being taken 66% past its (already high) default clocks. I wonder how long that poor chip will survive on 2v vCore though...

 

[buildzoid]

While it may not be true/useful/etc., it's still impressive to see a chip being taken 66% past its (already high) default clocks. I wonder how long that poor chip will survive on 2v vCore though...

At the last stop of the HWbot World Tour 2 i5 6600Ks died at around 1.95V after a few hours of benching at around 6.3Ghz on LN2. So this chip won't last very long at 2V.

 

[Scrizz]

At the last stop of the HWbot World Tour 2 i5 6600Ks died at around 1.95V after a few hours of benching at around 6.3Ghz on LN2. So this chip won't last very long at 2V.

and it hit 7Gs

 

[kid41212003]

and it hit 7Gs

you are still alive )

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Am i the only one pondering how this is even newsworthy didn't stilt hit over 8.7 on an fx processor like mine over two years ago??.

 

[ToxicTaZ]

Kabylake going to be awesome!

i7-7700K on ASUS ROG Maximus IX Formula mother board with EK liquid cooling!

https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-kit-p280

with this kit the 7700K should be rock solid @5.3 GHz to 5.4 GHz I'm expecting. @1.30v

 

[EarthDog]

Am i the only one pondering how this is even newsworthy didn't stilt hit over 8.7 on an fx processor like mine over two years ago??.

Yes, but that isn't intel. Intel hasn't smelled those types speeds since the P4 days. Currently skylake tends to top out in the low 6ghz range.

And even at those clocks, the AMD's are still slower than intel..

Kabylake going to be awesome!

i7-7700K on ASUS ROG Maximus IX Formula mother board with EK liquid cooling!

https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-kit-p280

with this kit the 7700K should be rock solid @5.3 GHz to 5.4 GHz I'm expecting. @1.30v

Your expectations are WAY out of whack dude. You'd be lucky to see 1.3V at 5ghz is my guess...

While it may not be true/useful/etc., it's still impressive to see a chip being taken 66% past its (already high) default clocks. I wonder how long that poor chip will survive on 2v vCore though...

Not long.. but who cares... it's meant for quick runs, it's not a daily driver.

 

[Aquinus]

Jeez. Give me something I can freaking use. What is the point of an overclock if you can't do anything useful with it? I don't play a game or test code wondering how fast it will run before it falls over...

 

[EarthDog]

This isn't for the daily drivers.. if that's you, I wouldn't even comment...

... ignorance and a lack of understanding is preceding many people...

 

[Prima.Vera]

I couldn't find any info...what kind of cooling solution did he use? Also, how did he cool the RAM sticks? My guess is the mobo chipset also had to be cooled down a little.
We need more interesting details about how did he achieve this.

 

[DOM]

This isn't for the daily drivers.. if that's you, I wouldn't even comment...

... ignorance and a lack of understanding is preceding many people...

What's up your slut lol idk why you waste your time bro I been out of the loop and do miss it still got a butt load of GPU's in storage

 

[jaggerwild]

I couldn't find any info...what kind of cooling solution did he use? Also, how did he cool the RAM sticks? My guess is the mobo chipset also had to be cooled down a little.
We need more interesting details about how did he achieve this.

LN2 also probably some cherry picked Mem sticks, as Dom said if I had a sponser. How many who think its no big deal can even come close?

 

[EarthDog]

What's up your slut lol idk why you waste your time bro I been out of the loop and do miss it still got a butt load of GPU's in storage

haha, Im great DOM, hope you are well man... and yes, the majority here just doesn't seem to be able to separate a daily driver from a benching machine/results and spews ignorance all over, lol!

LN2 also probably some cherry picked Mem sticks, as Dom said if I had a sponser. How many who think its no big deal can even come close?

Clearly that is with LN2. I doubt the memory was on LN2 for its results. YOu can hit 4K+ on ambient air...

As for the second part...even though I have had plenty of experience using LN2 and benching at Hwbot, even if he handed me that chip we see in the screenshots, I would bet I couldn't reproduce those results. What the kiddos play here and ambient overclocking and just needing to touch multi and vcore (in most cases) isn't what the game is like on LN2. But, they choose to hate on the hobby...... can't win em all.

 

[DOM]

LN2 also probably some cherry picked Mem sticks, as Dom said if I had a sponser. How many who think its no big deal can even come close?

I've had a retail chip from Newegg 2500K is ranked 8th in the world in mhz http://hwbot.org/submission/2237322_domoca_cpu_frequency_core_i5_2500k_5970_mhz

It's more easy if you get chips to test for the best one that's the good part of having sponsors

 

[Parn]

What's the point of this OC if he had to disable two cores to achieve 7GHz? OC is about getting extra performance for free. If he had to sacrifice multi-thread performance to achieve some stupid number alone, it's pointless.

Did Intel just pay this guy to steal the spotlight from AMD Ryzen?

 

[EarthDog]

What's the point of this OC if he had to disable two cores to achieve 7GHz? OC is about getting extra performance for free. If he had to sacrifice multi-thread performance to achieve some stupid number alone, it's pointless.

Did Intel just pay this guy to steal the spotlight from AMD Ryzen?

Lol, it's a RACE...benchmarking. The point isnt to show anyone what the chip can do 24/7, but to run certain benchmarks fast.

It's like looking at a Nascar and asking what is the point of it over a car.

Intel didn't pay this guy to do that...wow.