A CPU world record has been broken by dousing a $6,000+ AMD chip in liquid nitrogen

CB R23 HOFhttps://t.co/cHtt9wp7oJ https://t.co/2ZDaPk6UsF pic.twitter.com/U3d2dJ6Mj8The 5995WX is the biggest and baddest chip in AMD's Threadripper lineup, which originally began as an enthusiast desktop CPU range. It's not so much nowadays, however, as the 5995WX will set you back $6,499—tough to come to terms with paying that amount of money without access to the company credit card.

Still, it's an absolute monster of a processor, with 64 Zen 3 cores with 128 available threads, running at up to 4.5GHz boost clock. That naturally gives this chip a leg-up in multithreaded benchmarks such as the Cinebench R23 run it's dominated today, but there is of course more to this feat than mere silicon power alone.

The overclocker responsible for this run, TSAIK, has used liquid nitrogen to run this chip at 5,150MHz, which is an impressive 650MHz bump , especially for a multithreaded run. With a single-threaded run you could expect to see a massive leap in clock speed, as it's only necessary to cherry-pick the best core on the silicon and push that to its limits. Whereas with a multithreaded run you sort of need as many cores working as possible to pump up that score.

And to use liquid nitrogen on a processor worth that much money… that takes some metal. Think of the nerves you'd get setting up the pot on top of that chip, knowing that if you get something wrong you could be waving goodbye to over $6,000. Though that does make me think this record may stick around for a while. How often is an overclocker going to have a 5995WX to hand to try and break world records with?

Now keep it there and run it full time for the next 10 years! :D

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