In the same way that top-fuel dragsters have no bearing on how we use everyday cars, overclocking the twangers off a CPU using extreme cooling methods doesn't have much practical use, but it's super fun to watch. The case in point here is that there's a new world record for the highest clock speed achieved by any desktop processor: 9,206 MHz with an Intel Core i9 14900KF.
You can check out the details of the record over at HWBot, but the first thing of note here is that the chip used isn't a 14900KS, the typical choice of chip for record breakers. That Raptor Lake processor was Intel's last hurrah in its previous era of 'clock speed beats all and power usage be damned'.
That CPU has a peak boost clock of 6.0 GHz by default, so it's not hard to see why it was used to achieve the previous record of 9,118 MHz. Admittedly, top overclockers never use the chips in a default configuration, and that's no different for this new record. Firstly, all the E-cores were disabled, followed by HyperThreading (i.e. si...
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