Mikecdm takes first place in Ryzen 9 5950X rankings, while OVIZ Hardware Lab sets a record on Ryzen 9 5900X

American overclocker Mikecdm has set a new record for the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X in the PCMark10 Express category. To secure the top spot, the enthusiast used liquid nitrogen to push the 16-core, 32-thread beast to 5600 MHz:

This bench session landed Mikecdm a score of 9,097 points.

The enthusiast's test bench featured the following hardware:

• Motherboard - ASRock B550 Taichi;

• RAM - 2 x 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V;

• Graphics card - Sapphire Radeon RX 580;

• Storage - 59 GB Areca Slow Drive 555.

The team at OVIZ Hardware Lab also decided to try their luck in the PCMark10 Express category, opting for the 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X instead.

The 5900X was cooled by a dual-fan liquid cooler, which allowed the overclockers to boost the frequency to 5111 MHz:

The OVIZ Hardware Lab team ended their session with a score of 8,756 points.

That's a noticeable gap compared to the speeds Mikecdm squeezed out of his chip using liquid nitrogen. However, even this modest frequency (especially by extreme overclocking standards) was enough to secure first place in both the Ryzen 9 5900X category and the overall 12-core CPU rankings.

The test bench for this run featured the following hardware:

• Motherboard - ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero;

• RAM - 2 x 8GB G.SKILL;

• Graphics card - AMD Radeon R9 290X;

• Storage - 280 GB NVMe Intel SSDPE21D28.

Sources: Result page for Mikecdm and OVIZ Hardware Lab