
Overclocker Mikecdm used liquid nitrogen to push an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X to 5.9 GHz, setting a new PCMark10 Express world record.
Just three days after his last major achievement, American overclocker Mikecdm is back with a new record. This time, he set his sights on AMD's flagship 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 5950X.
Using liquid nitrogen for cooling, the overclocker pushed AMD's ultimate chip to 5900 MHz, completing the PCMark10 Express benchmark with a score of 9,300. This impressive result secured Mikecdm first place in the model, 16-core, and overall global rankings for this benchmark:
In other words, Mikecdm has set an absolute world record in PCMark10 Express.
The enthusiast's test bench featured the following hardware:
Motherboard: ASRock B550 Taichi;
RAM: 2x 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V;
Graphics card: Sapphire Radeon RX 580 Nitro, overclocked to 1600 MHz (+27.29% for the GPU) / 1900 MHz (-5.00% for GDDR5 memory).
Source: HWBot result page