American overclocker Mikecdm has taken first place in the rankings for the relatively popular Intel Core i7-7740X, a quad-core processor on the LGA 2066 platform.
Using a liquid nitrogen pot for cooling, the enthusiast managed to push the aging 8-thread processor to an impressive 6,804 MHz and successfully complete the Cinebench - R20 benchmark with a score of 3,729 points:
This score was more than enough to claim first place in both the individual Core i7-7740X rankings and the global quad-core leaderboard.
The overclocker's test bench consisted of the following components:
ASRock X299 OC Formula motherboard;
Two 8GB sticks of G.SKILL RIPJAWS V F4-4266C16-8GVK RAM;
Windows 10 20H1.
And here is what the setup looked like:
⤢ ВІДКРИТИSource: HWBot record page
