ASUS Breaks Overclock World Record

ASUS Breaks Overclock World Record

ASUS has overclocked two Intel i7-7700K Kaby Lake CPU to over 7.3GHz on all four cores and eight threads using their new Maximus XI Apex motherboard. The CPUs were overclocked using liquid Nitrogen and liquid Helium for cooling. 

This event showcases exactly how well Intel's new Kaby Lake series CPUs can overclock, with 5GHz overclocks seeming common on Intel's new Z270 platform. 

It is still very early days for the Kaby Lake overclocking scene, so it is expected that these world-class overclocks will be broken within the next few months, especially as BIOS revisions are released and professional overclockers gain access to custom-made BIOS versions. 

At this ASUS event, the overclockers Fredyama, elmor, slamms, shamino, der8auer, coolice, Raja, Xtreme Addict and Dancop were present, with most of them walking away with new world record overclocks and first place scores on a variety of CPU and gaming benchmarks. 

“If you work constantly with [liquid helium], it lasts 15 minutes,” he said. “That’s quite funny if you calculate it. Liquid helium reacts different from liquid nitrogen because it’s lighter. The nitrogen we put into thermos flasks and fill it into the cooler, which is not working with helium. We have to fill the liquid helium with a lance directly from the original flask into the cooler where it shoots into the cooler and cools it down.”