A few moments after the launch of CPU Alder Lake-S Gigabyte indicated that its teams had broken several world records with the Intel Core i9-12900K, the top of the range of the Alder Lake family, with a frequency of 8.00 GHz.
This record is obviously there to promote the Aorus Z690 Tachyon motherboard but also the “in-house” DDR5 memory overclocked to 8,397 MHz with CL52 -52-52-100-127-2 latencies. Finally, the use of liquid nitrogen was necessary for this result.
However for the developer of CPU-Z ( aka DocTB ), this frequency is highly unlikely. What allows him to have this judgment is that in recent weeks, he has seen a significant number of attempts to OC by overclockers in connection with the main brands of motherboards.
The general consensus was that full stability of all cores is possible at about 7 GHz and “suicide run ” on a single core up to 7.5-7.6 GHz.
i9-12900K 8 GHz: impossible
CPU-Z decided to withdraw the said record because despite multiple requests, the company did not provide any indisputable evidence of this record. Now we know a method that can be used to exploit a hardware bug in Alder Lake processors, despite the microcode patch added by Intel. It is a low-level check of the boot process. We are testing a new internal CPU-Z patch capable of detecting this trick. A very similar case occurred with the launch of the Ryzen 9 5950X, which involves the same players. Until today, many OC websites reported a world record of 6362.16 MHz for this processor. Let’s hope, however, that this “misstep” does not penalize the rebirth of the excellent TACHYONs on the market…
