A few days ago, an overclocking team managed to get a new Intel Core i9-14900KF chip overclocked up to a new world record of 9043.9 MHz, and even briefly, and unconfirmed up to 9.1 GHz. This weekend, another new Intel processor was used to break another kind of world record via some extreme overclocking.
Tom's Hardware reports that during the SXSW Sydney 2023 event in Australia, a group calling itself Team Australia Extreme Overclocking teamed up with Intel to overclock a Core i9-14900K CPU. You can read our own review of that same processor right now.
The team was joined by Roger Chandler, Intel's vice president and general manager for its Enthusiast PC and Workstation Client Computing Group. The story says that Chandler helped the team pour liquid nitrogen on the CPU. The team got the CPU to go beyond its normal 6 GHz clock speed to between 7.5 GHz and 8 GHz.
While those speeds are fast, they are not world records. However, the team did set a different kind of record. While the Intel CPU was overclocked, the PC played a game of Valve's Counter-Strike 2. The recently launched new version of the multiplayer online shooter had its frame rate boosted up to an insane 1,310 FPS during the overclocking event. The report says that the frame rate was run on a game-stable PC, meaning there were no glitches due to the overclocking.
The same team also set another world record during the event. It boosted Gigabyte's DDR5-8333 16GB memory module to DDR5-11618. However, just after that level was hit, the PC generated a BSOD. The team was still able to send the result to the HWbot site to record the DDRS record.
With all of these new Intel and AMD processors coming out, we could see even more overclocking and frame rate world records pop up in the weeks and months to come.
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