Following the recent ramping up of a Celeron chip, this Pentium model has been pushed even faster.
Intel Alder Lake CPUs have been shown to be capable of all manner of impressive overclocking feats when it comes to non-K chips (ones that shouldn’t officially be open to overclocks), and the latest one is a cheapo Pentium model being pushed to truly dizzy heights. As you may be aware, only Intel’s ‘K’ model processors are officially produced with overclocking in mind, and the chip giant recently made it very clear that while non-K CPUs can be ramped up due to an apparent loophole with Alder Lake, they shouldn’t be. And indeed you’re voiding the warranty and running the risk of ruining the processor with such overclocking (they simply aren’t designed for this). But that obviously won’t stop professional overclockers really going to town on what might be possible with Alder Lake non-K silicon, and following Der8auer hitting 5.3GHz with a Celeron G6900, Hicookie (Gigabyte’s in-house expert) has overclocked the Pentium Gold G7400T CPU to 5.8GHz. To put that in perspective, this is a low-end dual-core Pentium processor that costs just $64 (around £47, AU$89), and normally ticks along at 3.
