What has been the highest recorded stable overclock to date?

[Wayfall]

Hi

I'm not an overclocking but i understand the basics of it.

Just curious how high have people been able to get unlocked consumer grade CPU's frequencies up to?

I looked on Google and saw some crazy records of around 7-8GHZ overclocks for AMD's FX 8000 series and Intel's Skylake.

Shouldn't a CPU pop at such high overclocks, I have actually seen a CPU pop once... sparks came from the CPU for like 1 seconds and a bit of smoke.

 

[13thmonkey]

They would be very very cold, and hence have low resistance and not need as much voltage as you might think. Hence they don't pop, doing that at ambient and it'll go bang.

 

[notlim981]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3163337/world-record-core-6950x.html

 

[Wayfall]

I have never seen any point, overclocking doesn't give much back performance wise for the very risk of overclocking it in the first place.

 

[WildCard999]

I have never seen any point, overclocking doesn't give much back performance wise for the very risk of overclocking it in the first place.

Same, the farthest I've been able to push my 4770K was 4.5ghz @1.25V and the difference in FPS was very small around 4 if I remember correctly. Knowing what I know now I would of just saved $100 and just went with the Xeon 1231.

 

[geofelt]

Overclocking competitors use liquid nitrogen cooling and care little about cpu longevity.
The overclocks in the 6+ghz range come from those competitors.

If you are interested in more normal use, then how high is determined by the quality of the particular sample.

For skylake, I have accumulated statistics from silicon lottery, an outfit that bins chips and sells the better ones for a premium.
The 2% top will be chips that have been delidded for better thermal capability.

As of 5/2016
What percent can get an overclock at a somewhat sane 1.40v Vcore.

I5-6600K
5.0 2%
4.9 11%
4.8 36%
4.7 64%
4.6 88%

I7-6700K
4.9 2%
4.8 17%
4.7 59%
4.6 93%
4.5 100%

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Pushed my 8350 on BIG AIR cooler to 5.2 and stable , my son now owns it now states he's running it at 4.8 now.

 

[13thmonkey]

my 3570k i've had at 4.3 from 3.5 stock since 2012, no issues and more performance, fewer short term bottlenecks of the gpu. It can be beneficial, and low risk, it's only when you go too far that risk increases.