There were plenty of Intel Kaby Lake leaks so far so it does not come as a surprise that we now we have a chance to check out how some of these CPUs overclock and it appears that these are quite overclockers since the Core i7-7700K flagship hit 6.7GHz on LN2 while the Core i5-7600K pushed to 5.1GHz on air.

As you already know, Intel's desktop Kaby Lake CPUs should be officially released sometimes in January 2017 alongside the new 200-series motherboards.

The Core i7-7700K will be flagship offering and this is a quad-core chip with Intel Hyper-Threading, 8MB of L3 cache, 91W TDP and clocked at 4.2GHz base and 4.5GHz Turbo clocks. Thanks to Chinese sources, we now have a chance to see how well it overclocks and HKEPC managed to push it up to 6.7GHz on LN2.

The CPU was overclocked on ASRock Z170M OC Formula motherboard and some GALAX HOF DDR4 memory. Bear in mind that this might be an engineering sample but we already seen leaks of retail chips as well.




The Core i5-7600K should be the most popular CPU around as it should be cheaper than the flagship Core i7-7700K but still offer decent performance. This is a quad-core CPU which lacks Intel Hyper-Threading support, works at 3.8GHz base and 4.0GHz+ Turbo clocks, have 6MB of L3 cache, and has the same 91W TDP.

This one was overclocked to a rather decent 5.1GHz on air and was done on ASUS Maximum VIII Gene motherboard.




We are quite sure that once these launch we will see even higher overclocking results as soon as they land in the hands of some other overclockers.



Source: via Wccftech.com.