Finnish overclocker Luumi (Alza OC team) has won four gold medals in the Intel Core i7-950 rank. The 8-thread monster from 2008 was cooled with liquid nitrogen and was overclocked to ~ 5589 MHz. At the same time, the random access memory functioned at a frequency of ~ 1920 MHz with delays of ~ 6-8-6-20-60 1T. You can familiarize yourself with more detailed characteristics of the CPU during overclocking and the results in benchmarks from the screenshots below, as well as using the final table:
| Discipline: | Result: | Processor frequency: | RAM frequency: | RAM timings: |
| wPrime 32m | 4 seconds 281 milliseconds | 5562MHz | 1934,4MHz | 6-7-5-20-72 1T |
| wPrime 1024m | 2 minutes 17 seconds 250 milliseconds | 5507MHz | 1915,4MHz | 6-7-5-20-72 1T |
| SuperPi – 1M | 7 seconds 109 milliseconds | 5652MHz | 1966,2MHz | 6-8-6-20-60 1T |
| SuperPi – 32M | 6 minutes 28 seconds 313 milliseconds | 5589MHz | 1940,2MHz | 6-8-6-20-60 1T |
The Luumi test setup consisted of the following components:
- Motherboard – ASUS Rampage III Black Edition;
- RAM – 3 x 2GB Corsair Dominator GT
- CPU Cooling – Kingpin Cooling T-REX;
- Power supply – SuperNOVA G2 1200W.
And it looked like this:
Source: HWBot enthusiast profile
ASUS Rampage III Black Edition
Core i7-950
Corsair
Luumi
SuperNOVA
SuperPi – 1M
SuperPi – 32M
wPrime 1024m
wPrime 32m
