Intel Core i7 9700K Spotted Overclocked on Z370 to 5.5 GHz
Click here to post a comment for Intel Core i7 9700K Spotted Overclocked on Z370 to 5.5 GHz on our message forum
user1
good score, though it looks like the voltage could be past 1.5v , not exactly "safe" volts
.
Jagman
Impressive, but what's the street price gonna be?
(out of my range for certain)
Matt26LFC
Be great if they can do those clocks on Normal cooling, though I'm skeptical about that. I Imagine the price will be in excess of £500 as they'll for sure clock higher than 8 core Skylake X parts thus outperforming them, so they're unlikely to cheaper than a 7820X. My guess is 549.99 in UK at best
Neo Cyrus
Forget safe, it's not even realistic if it's at all comparable to past Intel CPUs.
If it is, how many people are going to have the cooling to maintain that voltage 24/7 without the CPU rapidly degrading and becoming unstable? Hell, even the cooling wouldn't matter much at 1.5V as far as degradation goes; exposed to that much voltage over a long period of time will cause noticeably accelerated degradation.
MK80
+1.5Volt o_Oo_Oo_Oo_Oo_O Sorry my bad
the punctuation is also nothing special ... I suspect it does the same score as the 8700k with the same OC.
user1
It not impossible that intel could produce a variant of 14nm that could handle higher voltages, though i would agree it is highly unlikely, i wouldn't be surprised if the 5.5ghz run was under a chilled water loop, the heat density will be really bad on a such a small chip.
nizzen
Wait for whatever you want. We don't care 😉
Solfaur
If I had this proc or the 9900K, or any of the new Ryzen CPUs, I would be hard pressed to even bother trying to overclock it. It just seems to me as both AMD and Intel pushed to get as much juice as possible with factory clocks, that the exponential heat and power required for the little OC room that's left, is simply not worth it anymore.
TLD LARS
This looks wrong, only a single digit faster then a stock 2700X, I hope the memory is running at a low speed or it is thermal throttling or something, because this does not look good.
Borys
Owwww... they just forgot to tell what Chill or LN2 was used... and more... how many cores was at 5.5GHZ...
Its ridiculus how Intel try (and can) to deceive their fanboys....
reix2x
Neo Cyrus, i'm running my CPU at 1.4V since 2013, rendering every day with a very standard heatpipe cooler, no degradation on here.. do you think 1.5 could be that different? just asking
nizzen
No HT.
250p singlecore 9700k , and 2700x?
Neo Cyrus
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Even though you haven't noticed anything, there's bound to be some degree of degradation, just not enough that would matter. As for 1.5V+, based on everything I've read about past Intel CPUs that's beyond the threshold where the degradation accelerates enough to become noticeable over time.
But as user1 said in his reply, it's definitely possible that Intel have a variant where 1.5V is safe for long term usage, it just seems highly unlikely.
Netherwind
Well, the piece of news mentioned water cooling so one could guess a 280mm or bigger.
GamerNerves
I expect 5,2 GHz in realistic conditions from i7, but not as much from i9. i7 and especially i9 will run very hot, so probably safer to just leave them at 5 GHz if you can reach that. This time water cooling is not a necessity, but I doubt something like Thermalright Macho B Rev 2 can keep i7 under 80 C with a clock of 5 GHz. If i7-9700K costs under 400 €, then it will be a fine deal if you are prepared with a good air ventilation and cooling solution. Over 400 € it's just not worth it and you can go straight with R7 2700X.
i5-9600K is probably a decent buy for very competitive gamers who want maximum FPS in their games and for those who just want 144 FPS all the time in games at the cost of graphical quality. i5 might be the real deal here, since it offers marginally something that AMD does currently not, but the more expensive options are for who? Content creators got to be real serious with their business if they are willing to pay for those chips and cool them properly at the same time.
nz3777
5.5Ghz on Regular w/c now that is Impressive! The fastest ive ever had was 4.7Ghz on my old Fx 9370 I cant even begin to Imagine how fast that things is wow!
Intel for sure winning the clock-speed war!
icedman
I like how solder is magically ok now when they defended using tooth paste because of micro cracks or some bs with solder on such a small lithography.
moaka
2700x @4.4GHZ 183pts
user1
this is exactly what you would expect, an 8600k (6cores without hyperthreading)@5ghz gets 1250~ points, this cpu has 8 cores(no hyperthreading) so roughly (1/3) more cores which equates to an estimated 1670~ points roughly at 5.0ghz then we take the frequency difference (5.5/5.0) 10% more frequency , means roughtly 1830~ points, which is right where this lands.
I love cinebench its so predictable.
TLD LARS
The math adds op correctly yes, i guess i am just shocked that Hypertreading/SMT makes up for the more then 1000MHz handicap the AMD 2700x has, compaired to the 9700K.
