Liquid Helium-powered overclock beats out the 14900K by some margin
Intel’s long-rumored Core i9-14900KS finally went on sale yesterday and already the CPU has broken records, including becoming the fastest ever processor.
Tom’s Hardware reports that a team of expert overclockers at Asus took the Core i9-14900KS – which runs at a mighty 6.2GHz boost right out of the box – and pushed it to 9.117GHz to set a new world speed record. (Note that this was the boost achieved on a single core, as you might expect – you won’t get 6.2GHz at default speeds on all cores, either).
The team – which comprised of well-known overclockers Elmor, SkatterBencher, and Shamino – used exotic cooling (liquid Helium) and had to crank the voltage to a huge 1.85V to get that almost 9.12GHz clock speed.
This means the Core i9-14900KS is now the fastest ever CPU, beating out the Core i9-14900KF (the vanilla 14900K without integrated graphics) which hit 9.
