Intel’s Core i9-14900KF has simply been launched, and the flagship Raptor Lake Refresh processor has damaged the earlier world document for overclocking.
The Core i9-14900KF – which is similar because the plain 14900K, it simply doesn’t have built-in graphics – was ramped as much as 9044MHz (or 9.04GHz) by a staff of overclockers from Asus (together with SkatterBencher, a reputation that ought to be acquainted to anybody who retains up with the CPU overclocking scene).
As Tom’s {Hardware} studies, that was achieved on a single core (a efficiency one, after all) utilizing liquid helium for cooling. The PC used was constructed round an Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore motherboard and a 1200W Enermax energy provide.
The overclock pips the earlier world document by 35MHz, so not an enormous quantity by any means, however on the top-end of the overclocking scene, even slight features are spectacular.
These small advances aren’t straightforward to attain, and as SkatterBencher makes clear, it took a whole week to edge out the earlier document (held by the 13900KF, as you may need guessed).
Evaluation: 9.1GHz and past…
Getting near 9.1GHz is clearly an eye-opening achievement, though it’s not the primary time the 9GHz barrier has been damaged – the previous document with the 13900KF was 9.008GHz.
Apparently, with the document nabbed, the Asus staff did push tougher with the 14900KF and really noticed 9.1GHz achieved – however solely very briefly earlier than the system locked up. The PC wasn’t steady sufficient, for lengthy sufficient, at that velocity to really validate the overclock, however 9.1GHz was technically reached.
Provided that that is an preliminary overclocking try, it’s very doubtless that 9.1GHz can be totally achieved – in a steady trend – by the Raptor Lake Refresh flagship, as a result of features with new silicon are at all times higher down the road.
Certainly, there’s each likelihood we might see greater than that, as in the event you recall, the 13900K initially hit an 8.8GHz overclock, earlier than it was pushed above 9GHz a few months later. Keep tuned, then.
Whereas it’s undeniably pacey when it comes to pure clock speeds, as we cowl in our evaluate, the Core i9-14900K shouldn’t be the perfect guess for the typical PC proprietor – notably not avid gamers.
As for the 14700K, alternatively… nicely, that impressed us sufficient to seize the highest spot in our greatest processors checklist (although it’s not with out some drawbacks in comparison with its predecessor).
