Intel’s new Arrow Lake desktop processors (Core Ultra 200S vary) are simply out, and inevitably that implies overclockers are already pushing the flagship to its limits, which so far has led to an overclock of seven.5GHz for the Core Ultra 9 285K.

This used to be completed by means of well known overclocker Elmor as Asus explains in a weblog submit, with the Core Ultra 9 CPU sitting in an Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard.

Elmor – and a workforce operating at the challenge, made from three-D Systems, Diabatix, ElmorLabs, and SkatterBencher (some other well-known overclocker) – hit 7488.8MHz, to be exact, the use of liquid helium cooling. By default, the Core Ultra 9 285K boosts to five.7GHz (clocks, and tool utilization, are tamer with Arrow Lake than its predecessors).

Asus additionally highlights that the LN2 pot – which is actually a pot, the container used for the LN or liquid nitrogen (or helium) gasoline to chill the CPU being ramped as much as ridiculous speeds – used to be designed the use of generative AI tech from Diabatix.

So, in a small manner, AI helped to supply optimal cooling right here on the subject of the container design, or fairly the facility to discover a host of design choices in a swift way.

Asus notes: “The output of the generative AI process was unlike anything else on the market and required the cutting-edge 3D printing tech of 3D Systems to bring to life, but the results speak for themselves.”

Running at this pace, the 285K controlled to set a grasp of recent global data – 4 of them, all in 3DMark CPU – together with 19 world first position data (and 31 first puts in more than a few benchmarks, in overall). A great deal of the ones had been other Cinebench and Geekbench effects as it’s possible you’ll believe.

Separately, Wccftech additionally issues out that overclocker BenchMarc controlled to ramp up their DDR5 RAM to an improbable pace of 12066MT/s within the Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard.

Analysis: Impressive stuff – however it’s not going to assist public belief

Arrow Lake desktop chips have had a lukewarm reception, so Intel will most probably take any win it may well – and the Core Ultra 9 285K does do really well in the case of the arena of utmost overclocking.

The glaring downside being that this area of interest view of efficiency is obviously now not related to the real-world – although it’s a minimum of a touch that PC fanatics would possibly get extra mileage out of the 285K than others, by way of extra conventional overclocking. (Depending on how a lot headroom there’s to push tougher with the chip, thoughts).

In equity to Team Blue, Arrow Lake isn’t horrible, and indisputably for app efficiency, the brand new CPUs do smartly sufficient. They don’t, on the other hand, constitute a lot of a compelling improve over Raptor Lake or its refresh, regardless of potency good points, and the gaming facet of the equation is shoddy, frankly. (The 14900K is way more potent for gaming – and the 285K is slightly in all places on the whole, with some atypical benchmark ends up in proof).

Those gaming oddities are most likely wrinkles that’ll be ironed out with updates from Intel, however this shouldn’t be taking place with CPUs at release (simply dangle them – and get it proper, please, off the bat).

Still, we will be able to’t argue with the overclocking effects right here, and as ever, we will be able to be expecting the Core Ultra 9 285K to be driven sooner at some point, and without doubt smash extra heavyweight benchmarking data.

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