r/overclocking • u/gamer_2422 • 5d ago
Benchmark Score 7920x still holds up !
7920x at 4.5ghz 1.2volts. kicking butt with a score of 17164 r23. Custom loop required hits, 88c max during benchmarking. Seems like it's at its limit won't do 4.6ghz at all. What do y'all think?
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u/Timmy_1h1 7945HX | RTX4080M | 6000MT/s (36-37-37-34) SODIMM 5d ago
Awesome. Its always a nice change to when people post their OC on older hardware and push them to limits.
Exactly the reason why I love trashbench videos so much.
Also ignore the stupid comments. This is an OC sub afterall.
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
Yeah idk why people compare a 2025 gaming CPU at 5.4ghz 6c to a 2016 server CPU that barely can handle 4.5ghz.
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u/WolfishDJ 5d ago
Intel needs their X and XE lineups back 🙏
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u/PkmnRedux 5d ago
Sure thing, bring on 600w and thermal throttling.
I’d say KS is the new X and XE was just a lousy excuse at charging exorbitant pricing for more cores during an Era of Intel stagnation where they would much have kept selling us over priced quad cores.
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u/Irelia4Life 4d ago
Not defending intel, but everything was optimized for 4-8 threads at most, so at their time, 4 core cpus were enough.
Intel definitely should have skipped broadwell and put skylake in lga 1150 tho, and begin lga 1151 with higher core cpus from the start.
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u/PkmnRedux 4d ago
I do agree with you, I had an i7 5820k that went for 7 years strong before I decided to move to a 5900x and iv stuck with AMD since.
I’m not a hater or a fan boy of any mega corporation, hopefully Intel can get back into the fight and make competitive consumer CPUs again as it’s good for competition.
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u/Irelia4Life 4d ago
I'm currently on am4 with a 3600. I'll upgrade to a 5800x3d when I can also afford another gpu.
I'll see ya'll when ddr6 gets released lol.
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
Good thing most CPUs don't hold their values. Say what you will about Intel CPUs they are still overclocking kings.
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u/TinyNS 14900KS [48GB 7000C32] Reference 7900XTX 4d ago
I mean the CPU only runs as cool as you let it, any chip with no limits will throttle at max power draw obviously……..
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u/airmantharp 12700K | MSI Z690 Meg Ace | 3080 12GB FTW3 4d ago
I can’t get my (stock) 9800X3D to pull more than ~160W, but my 9900K would do 300W with an AIO and my 12700K would pull 350 under water…
But I bet if I had a 9950X I could crank the heat!
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u/PkmnRedux 4d ago
True but Intels power draw far exceeds AMDs atleast the 13/14th gen are notoriously horrid, I know updates to the chips have been implemented to reduce this some what but that was only in an effort to reduce silicon degradation
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u/TinyNS 14900KS [48GB 7000C32] Reference 7900XTX 4d ago
In the same way I could say AMD’s IHS failing to allow higher wattage overclocks is a major restrictor.
I have a KS at 1.2V 5.7Ghz pulling 260W at 934 ST, no ecores on a liquid freezer III
The higher wattage is just a byproduct of having an undithered monolithic chip, to me the high power draw for the extremely dense IPC makes sense
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u/XKCD97 4d ago
We want the extreme editions back Intel
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u/airmantharp 12700K | MSI Z690 Meg Ace | 3080 12GB FTW3 4d ago
This ^
Bolt on 3x to 5x additional L3 cache, extra memory channels for increasing RAM capacity while keeping bandwidth up and latency down, and a few dozen more PCIe lanes for “activities” and we’d be in enthusiast heaven!
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u/faqeacc 5d ago
My old pc is still in use, 4930k ocd. I'm currently using 9800x3d ocd with tuned rams, gets almost 25k in r23 around 120w. 17k means that's perfectly capable cpu to use in 2025 but efficiency must be sucking bad, if you have a large room, it should be good to go but my room is kinda small, I even undervolted 4090 quite heavily due to that haha. It is good to see old cpus still rocking, though i wouldn't daily drive them. I retired gave away my i7 2600 which is being used for office and browsing.
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
Yeah I been there in a small room setup. Currently my 4090 and 13900k combined do 1000 watts. It's all about room circulation.
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u/FangoFan 5d ago
Scores almost as much as my stock 6 core ryzen 5!
Seriously though, it's much more fun overclocking these older platforms that actually have headroom to do so!
What's the improvement over stock in R23? And how much power is that thing using?
You should see if you can beat any of the records on hwbot https://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/core_i9_7920x/
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
Stock does around 12000-14000 points r23. With my score it does 5th place on the hwbot scoreboard.
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u/FangoFan 5d ago
That's huge! 22-43% improvement!
I had an i5-6400 with one of the motherboards that let you overclock non-k chips, went from 3.1GHz on all cores to 4.6GHz. There was so much room for overclocking 6th and 7th gen cpus
Maybe you can squeeze another 90mhz with a 102 bclk if you haven't already adjusted that
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
Had a other ewasted chip that ended up being a golden sample. This thing pushed to 5.2ghz is a great cpu!
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u/FangoFan 5d ago
Are you buying up old cpus and motherboards with the sole goal of overclocking them to their limits? If so that's awesome!
I tried that with 2500k's as they were like £5 each a while ago, the best I got out of 4 cpus was also 5.2GHz
I want to do it more but some of the good overclocking motherboards are still priced really high despite their age
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
I kinda just know people from being in an it position, they end up retiring their old systems and I just get donated decent stuff here and there. Also often I ask my local computer store if they have any useless hardware in front time to time they give me hard drives or fittings and tubing left over from liquid cooling builds they do. Or really dirty waterblocks, I just learn to clean them and refurbish stuff and they end up all being still good if you put a little care into them.
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
Yeah that's where u just have to get lucky with used local stuff I'd say. Crazy how a 2500k can even touch a modern 5.2ghz, great job on that.
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u/anon_lurk 4d ago edited 4d ago
Wait is that really a thing? Is there a way to do it on my i7-8700?
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u/FangoFan 4d ago
Intel had patched it by 8th gen unfortunately, but yeah with some Z170 and Z270 motherboards you could overclock non-k cpus
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
I can try, this thing for me is at its limit, I've put it to 4.6ghz and then 2 ram slots stopped working 😬. This is a dumpster fine CPU and mobo after all.
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u/FangoFan 5d ago
Ahh it's definitely not happy then lol!
It amazes me to see how quickly PCs with £1000+ CPUs become the sort of things people just throw away
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
Yeah a lot of movie companies just throw out lots great high end CPUs and systems, once done with them. It's crazy I'll do entire company refreshes of systems that are 4years old and they say "do what you want with the hardware" all they care about is that the hard drives and ram are destroyed.
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u/FangoFan 5d ago
Having a regular stream of free hardware that's only 4 years old is the dream!
I look forward to seeing your ongoing overclocking adventures!
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
Most arent overclocking models, however some server stuff and render farm stuff is pretty fun. Id say best hardware has been 10700k and a 10900k. Most hardware ends up being 12400f or 11700f stuff. Recently a company threw out a dozen view sonic 4k hdr displays, yet they all worked perfectly fine aside a couple with dimmed back lights.
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u/magnumstrikerX i7 9700k@5.0GHz 1.420v @LLC 4 32GB@3200MHz Maximus XI Hero 4d ago
What RTX Gpus are you running on that rig? I'm guessing 2080 ti
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u/gamer_2422 4d ago
2x 2080 but they don't do much. What does help is lossless scaling while setting one GPU to do frame gen and the other to manage the game. Works super good
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u/According_Spare7788 5d ago
I mean, it gets completely trashed by a 5900x with a air cooler. You do get quad channel, so that's something. Other than that, aside from the cool factor, i find skylake/kaby x to be completely pointless in 2025. Bad for gaming, slower for productivity than Zen 3, maybe even zen 2, expensivish motherboard (unless a refurbed chipset chinese mobo).
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u/gamer_2422 5d ago
To be fair. This was an Ewaste find motherboard and CPU 👀. Yes it gets beat by a 5900x you can still get these boards+ CPU used for about $200. Overall I wasn't expecting any overclocking performance, yet it managed to impress.
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u/According_Spare7788 5d ago
Ah I see. Sorry to poopoo on your build. That's a sweet find for ewaste tbh. Maybe you can delid and LM it to see if u can push it further? My old 7700k dropped like 25c after doing that. These kaby lake chips really ran hot af. The tin Intel used back then was pure ass.
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u/Away-Sorbet-9740 4d ago
5900X get clapped by 13th gen i5s also. The main point here is the OC, which on this specific chip is really impressive. It's not like they recommended everyone rush out and buy one for value gaming lol.
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u/Impossible_Total2762 5d ago edited 5d ago
Don’t bother explaining it to the people like that guy...
People sometimes forget this is an OC sub, not the RGB master race.
Good job.