A few days days before the launch the first extreme overclocking result of an Intel Core i7-6700K "Skylake" processor has appeared. A rather unknown overclocker with nickname PLG has managed to make the CPU run at 6531 MHz.

PLG was using a new "Skylake-S" engineering sample CPU and he was able to overclocked from 4.0 GHz to a massive 6.531 GHz, without even deactivating Hyperthreading. 2.032 volt and cooling with liquid nitrogen was necessary to make the chip run at these frequencies.

A quick look at the system specs shows that PLG was using a MSI Gaming Z170 motherboard and one DDR4 module. What's interesting to see is that also the memory was heavily overclocked to 4287 MHz, which is very close to the current DDR4 frequency world record.

It's interesting to see that the MSI Gaming Z170 motherboard apparently did a great job regarding overclocking of memory and CPU. If a vendor manages to produce results like this well before the launch, this usually means, that the BIOS of the particular motherboard is very well optimized. We're definitely curious to find out ourselves what these boards can do.




Source: Benchmark.pl