Armed with LN2 cooling, overclockers cranked Intel’s flagship Core i9-11900K all the way to 6,500MHz, and there might be even more headroom.
There is overclocking, and then there is extreme overclocking, the latter of which requires equally extreme cooling solutions. The go-to method of choice for record overclock attempts is liquid nitrogen, otherwise known as LN2. And it was LN2 that a pair of overclocking enthusiasts in India employed to bring an Intel Core i9-11900K processor all the way to 6,500MHz (or 6.5GHz). « When enabled, Intel Adaptive Boost Technology (Intel ABT) is a feature that opportunistically allows additional multi-core Intel Turbo Boost frequencies, while operating within system power and temperature specifications, when current power and thermal specification headroom exists, » Intel explains. Either way, the top stock frequencies are a long way from 6GHz, let alone 6.5GHz. To get there, the folks at PC Wale kept pouring LN2 into a pot attached to the CPU, as shown in the video above.
