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way to overclockers and enthusiasts
the world over, the competition will
stiffen and this score and others will be
relegated to lower positions. Despite
that, it’s good to see that anyone who
can purchase this CPU but doesn’t
necessarily or readily have access
to Liquid Nitrogen can not only be
competitive but deliver results worthy
of the top 20, at least in CineBench R15.
I would be interested to find out
just how far one could take such an
exercise and how many points could be
generated with just this combination
of hardware (Core i9 9900K, KPC
Gemini LN2 Container and G.SKILL F4
DDR4 3200 C14 memory). Hopefully
one can report back with that answer in
the next issue when we examine ite
possibly the best companion board for
the Core i9 generation of CPUs (At least
where overclocking is concerned).
As for the other benchmarks, the
Core i9 9900K pretty much continued in
the same fashion, making its way into
every Top t e ty 8x CPU category. In
Cinebench R11.5 the CPU managed to
make it to the top 10 in this hardware
category. Interestingly enough
displacing another Dry Ice cooled
9900K score by one Shar00750 of the
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“Intel clearly sees or finds value in
overclocking and they have poured that into
each successive CPU generation.”
overclock.net forums. That CPU
also relegated to 5.9GHz with the
chosen cooling method (Streacom BC1
Open Benchtable FTW!) so perhaps the
5.9GHz of this particular CPU is
indicative of the general mileage
this SKU, at least this early on.
Finally, we get to the Core i7 9700K,
the actual successor to the Core
i7 8700K. Despite lacking any sort
of Hyper-Threading and therefor
confined to just 8 physical cores, it’s
fast, very fast actually. This is the CPU
which was LN2 cooled and it didn’t’
disappoint. The recorded scores were
once again not optimized in any shape
way or form, but at 6,700MHz the CPU
was potent e
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l e it t 55 of the 8x Category right
in the middle of 16 thread CPUs. The
rest of the scores
are in the lle y, but suffice to say, as
it stands, it would be relatively easy for
anyone who would buy this CPU to
claim all the CPU specific performance
records, and in some instances find
their scores competitive with 16 thread
CPU performance scores.
Needless to say LN2, is probably
the best way to let these CPUs stretch
their proverbial legs. While this isn’t
new, the complete absence of the
dreaded ‘cold bug’, makes these CPUs
a pleasure to overclock. t ide the
lack of hyper-threading on the Core i7
9700K, the frequencies reached and
performance delivered makes this my
avourite out of the three, punching well
above its weight division.
Overall, all three CPUs are t lly
easy or simple enough to overclock
one can focus on improving efficacy
and scores almost exclusively, rather
than battling