Overclockers Crank World-Record Speeds out of Skylake Core i7-6700K

Two renowned overclockers have pushed Intel’s Core i7-6700K CPU to its absolute limit, breaking the world record in the process. The German pair, Der8auer and Dancop, overclocked the retail Skylake processor to hit 7007.85MHz, using an ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Gene motherboard and 2x4GB G.Skill DDR4 RAM, TechFrag reports.

The validated data, submitted to CPU-Z, shows that the Germans raised the multiplier to 69x, using a base clock frequency of 101.56MHz, while the overclocking was achieved using only one of the CPU’s four cores enabled and an uncore frequency of 2438MHz.

The overclocking yielded 4.8GHz using air cooling, but, when they implemented -190^oC cooling, managed to raise speeds up to 7007.85MHz.

The overclocking is a new world record, breaking the previous score of 6998.88MHz achieved by Chi-Kui Lam.

Processor (CPU)

CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz

Threading: 1 CPU – 1 Core – 1 Thread

Frequency: 7007.85 MHz (69 * 101.56 MHz) – Uncore: 2437.5 MHz

Multiplier: Current: 69 / Min: 8 / Max: 50

Architecture: Skylake / R0-Step (14 nm)

Cpuid / Ext.: 6.E.3 / 6.5E

IA Extensions: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, TSX

Caches: L1D : 32 KB / L2 : 256 KB / L3 : 8192 KB

Caches Assoc.: L1D : 8-way / L2 : 4-way / L3 : 16-way

Microcode: Rev. 0x0000023

TDP / Vcore: 95 Watts / 2.064 Volts

Type: Retail (Original Frequency : 4000 MHz)