Core i7 9700K Overclocked to 5.30 GHz On Air Cooling (all cores)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/04/2018 08:56 AM | source: Expreview | 28 comment(s)

You know that 8 cores / 8 threaded Core i7 9700K we mentioned yesterday? Well, it has been overclocked, and the fun news is that a mere simple looking heat pipe cooler was used to do so. The photos are a bit blurry but do tell a tale.

So basically this was posted at Expreview and an unknown guy (at least to us) was able to test the part, as mentioned on air-cooling. that 5300 Mhz he achieved was on all cores, and on-air that is something impressive alright. Like I stated, the photos are horrible as they are grabs from a 10-second video, but the key details can be seen, the model Core i7-9700K, it is an ES version of the CPU with a P0 stepping, 8 core 8 threads, 12MB L3 cache, 3.6GHz base frequency.

In the 10 seconds of video, you can see that he overclocked to 5.3GHz. It is 1.215V, close to the default voltage of Core i7-8700K. previous leaks already mentioned a possible 5500 MHz on liquid cooling. These are of course ES aka 'magic' vanilla samples, spread toa few overclockers by Intel to create a bit of viral activity.

Have a peek.

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StewieTech
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#5581182 Posted on: 09/04/2018 04:08 PM

I remember when they hit 100MHz the first time. My mind was blown. "Wow, these things need cooling? Wtf? This is really next gen."

No, sorry, correction: "This is really rad." We used "rad" back then.

Dude...you´re old. I dont remember that, i wasnt even born. But really 5ghz is a nice accomplishment.

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#5581195 Posted on: 09/04/2018 04:26 PM

Against all odds, can it be this is the next Sandy Bridge? One can only hope.

SB was revolutionary not just because of its OCing capabilities, but it was also had great performance-per-clock and was well-built. It was all-around a great product. The 9700K obviously offers impressive performance, but the IPC per core hasn't really improved much.

I remember when they hit 100MHz the first time. My mind was blown. "Wow, these things need cooling? Wtf? This is really next gen."

I was too young at the time to remember or understand any of that, though my family once owned one of these. However, I had the same reaction when ARM CPUs were released with active cooling. Though, a little bit of me was like "this isn't really next gen, this is just struggling to keep up..."

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#5581199 Posted on: 09/04/2018 04:33 PM

Higher clocks are the only real advantage Intel has over AMD now that their IPC has stagnated and even regressed because the Meltdown and Spectre patches. Still i wouldn´t mind having one of those speed devils but not at the expense of having to buy another MB...

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#5581202 Posted on: 09/04/2018 04:44 PM

The 'key detail' is the temperature which is missing. :p But that 1.215V is impressive.

did you not notice "air cooling"?
so the temps are well in hand, except for those in the lost quarter, the outback, mojave desert, Malaysia, and Saudi

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#5581214 Posted on: 09/04/2018 05:08 PM

All your hardware was hopelessly obsoleted every 2 years. Including consoles. Good times. :p

LOL, oh yeah it felt like my PC had it's side panel off on alternate months for some upgrade or another :rolleyes:

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