Congrats To Our Intel K-Series Contest Winners

[cangelini]

We’d like to congratulate the winners of our Intel K-series contest. As a quick reminder, the aim of the competition was to overclock an Intel Core i7-875K or Intel Core i5-655K as high as possible, submitting a CPU-Z-validated link to prove the succe

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[Strider-Hiryu_79]

Congrats!!

Nice the top 3 walked away with i7-980x and a mobo to boot. No pun intended. 😀

 

[pbrigido]

Impressive numbers! Grats guys!!!

 

[wolfram23]

Wow, jealous! Nice OCs tho.

 

[User69]

Can any of you guys (if you happen to read this) put down your hardware used, and any unorthodox methods? I'm sure many people would appreciate your wisdom, as I will. Right now I'm just jealous!

 

[dogman_1234]

How the heck did they achieve above the 5 GHz marker? Liquid Nitrogen?

If so, I need to get some nitro on hand too. 😀

Anyways, congrats to the winners. They will have a great ime with their prizes...OC party anyone?

 

[mavroxur]

[citation][nom]Article[/nom]Third place: Brian Yuhas with a final clock rate of 6.918 MHz[/citation]

6.918 MHz? Man, who would've thought an 8088 would even rank in this contest 🙂

 

[mrface]

Dogman,

it says in the article all used LN2.

 

[liveonc]

How many people killed their CPU? They should all have an "Intel WAS Inside" sticker sent, or a t-shirt with, "I killed my CPU & all I got was this lousy t-shirt", written on it. ;-)

 

[jomofro39]

Nicely done. I wish there was an efficient LN2 aftermarket cooler that was affordable. I wish benching at 7 ghz was a possibility.

 

[scook9]

That is not bad at all....they were right up there with the highest i5 665k overclocks in the world

http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/core_i5_655k?tab=2drankings#/manufacturer.rankings.do?applicationId=13&manufacturer=intel&hardwareTypeId=CPU_2179&hardwareType=CPU&tabid=cpubenchmarks

 

[chickenhoagie]

[citation][nom]dogman_1234[/nom]How the heck did they achieve above the 5 GHz marker? Liquid Nitrogen?If so, I need to get some nitro on hand too. Anyways, congrats to the winners. They will have a great ime with their prizes...OC party anyone?[/citation]
they used the sparkling ice spring water.

 

[biao39]

"first and second place were separated by 2 MHz. Two. Megahertz"

Should be 2 hertz. No mega...

 

[thermalsig]

Gratz guys, I know it takes some skill(and luck with the cpu)to hit those marks.

 

[darkwingz24]

[citation][nom]biao39[/nom]"first and second place were separated by 2 MHz. Two. Megahertz"Should be 2 hertz. No mega...[/citation]

.002 GHz = 2 MHz

 

[samwelaye]

[citation][nom]biao39[/nom]"first and second place were separated by 2 MHz. Two. Megahertz"Should be 2 hertz. No mega...[/citation]

.001 GHz = 1 MHz. they are right

 

[fenix1186]

😵 spring water! It's all I ever wanted! lol

 

[thechief73]

Those are some crazy numbers they got there! 2MGz Holy Cow! Congrats to the winners that is some awsome clocking they did, they deserve it, I cant imagine the work that went into that.

 

[The_Lurker]

Congratz all!!

 

[damian86]

WOW!! can wee see some benchmarks of these beasts?please!

 

[Scanlia]

How did 3rd place only score 6.918 Mhz? Typo or what?

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Couldn't enter this contest anyway, I can't afford something as nice as an Intel processor.

 

[applegetsmelaid]

My foot itches. HOLY CRAP 7 GHZ?

 

[jgv115]

NICE Sparkling ICE Spring Water

 

[theoutbound]

Impressive numbers and congratulations to the winners. I hope no one lost a thumb to frostbite.