Intel Core i7-9700K gets OCed to 5553.7MHz

Chinese overclockers took an engineering sample of Intel's upcoming Core i7-9700K for a spin and managed to overclock the chip to 5553.7MHz. The chip is expected to be available next month or in October, depending on who you listen to.

The overclock was achieved on the ASRock Z370 Professional Gaming i7 motherboard in combination with watercooling. The Core i7-9700K has eight cores but lacks Hyper-Threading. Interestingly, this chip and the Core i9-9900K mark the return to soldered heatspreaders, which should result in better thermals and easier overclocking.

There are some Cinebench scores too:

In Cinebench R15 the new CPU reached 1827 and 250 points in multi- and single-threaded tests respectively. This puts it in Ryzen 7 2700X territory, and 200 points above Core i7-8700K, which this SKU is replacing. The single-thread performance is without a doubt a great achievement here (check the OC3D review for reference). Or was it the fact that no Z390 motherboard was required to achieve this score?

Via: VideoCardz