Extreme Overclocking the AMD R9 7950X CPU to 6.45GHz
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Published 2022-09-24
We joined AMD to film the company's world record attempt (and victory) with the new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU vs. the Intel Core i9-12900K. This was the first public attempt AMD made at extreme overclocking on Zen 4 hardware, which looks like it'll be a lot of fun to work with for enthusiasts who enjoy overclocking of all kinds (air, water, and liquid nitrogen). GN got approval to publish this ahead of the impending launch as a behind-the-scenes look at what to expect for XOC on AM5.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Watching AMD RIP Intel
01:18 - The R9 7950X Setup
02:37 - First Overclocking Run of the 7950X
03:55 - 5.5GHz Warmup Run Beats 7GHz Intel XOC Already
05:08 - World Record Attempts
07:21 - Q&A - CPU Sensor Behavior
09:28 - Ryzen Master
10:12 - Infinity Fabric Clocks, Voltage, & Memclock
12:55 - Understanding the Process
14:37 - 7600X vs. 7950X Behavior
15:56 - Conclusion
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Host: Steve Burke
Video: Andrew Coleman, Steve Burke
Guests: Bill Alverson, Amit Mehra (both from AMD)
All Comments (21)
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AMD let us know we could publish this one early, before anyone asks! We pay for all of our own flights, hotels, and event coverage so that we can remain fully independent for our audience. The best way to support our work is through our store: store.gamersnexus.net/ & Patron support: www.patreon.com/gamersnexus Watch our AMD Ryzen 7000 news video (7950X, 7900X, 7700X, and 7600X specs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVnJbiYOCq4
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You know how much experience that Bill has when he says running full pot is easy
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That is one hell of a way to promote zen 4. God damn. I love how transparent AMD is with benchmarks and are fairly truthful with the performance gains. If AMD does this with their GPUS I will be fully on team red
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Thank you to the entire team for all they do! Greatly appreciated!
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Literally beat my score by 9k points! That's crazy! Great job gentlemen! Happy to see AMD pushing so hard!
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I miss the GN overclocking streams. I hope once the new CPUs come out that Steve and Jay will revive their competition.
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I remember when using liquid nitrogen was necessary to even hit 5ghz. It's amazing how far we've come in a few short years.
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Wow! Seems soo easy and such a big bump over the 5950X, very very impressive!!! 👏
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I sure hope EVGA makes an am5 dark board.
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I'm not sure why people are upset about LN2 overclocking. It showcases both the upper limits of modern day technology, and the possible performance headroom that you're buying into with that hardware. Now yes, most people won't LN2 OC their CPU, but it's actually really informative to know what it's capable of.
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that's an insane score. 15%+ higher than any of the intels
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So excited to put together an all AMD build next year once Zen4X3D and RDNA 3 are both out. Hopefully no price spikes or supply shocks next year...
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10:29 That flicker when you open Task Manager is due to Windows 11. It's bugged the fuck out. File Explorer also crashes like hell.
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Digging the shirts. To the subject matter, neat play running an upward firing fan to keep all the spillover nitrogen off of the board.
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The little editor's notes with definitions are great. I had to pick up and figure out that stuff from context clues when I started learning about this kind of thing. I appreciate the extra little touches to help out the newbies.
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AMD just made one hell of a PR campaign for the latest and greatest! Thanks you team GN for putting this out!
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So ... the 7950x runs 5Ghz all core while idle and waiting for the LN2 run. That's nuts.
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I appreciate the added notes during the video since I know nearly nothing about LN2 OCing and have frankly had a hard time up until this point following your LN2 content; so it definitely helped
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Sick! Is it the process or the architecture? Or both?
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Love the coverage of Bill and Amit, they does an amazing job pushing these! ...and here I am still stuck at 6.15-6.2G on my samples for the first 7950X run, need to troubleshoot a lot of Coldbug issues :p
