The Intel Core i9 7980XE processor in overclocking reaches 6.0GHz, with extreme cooling, although it has a problem, the consumption of the processor shoots up to 1.000W.

The Intel Core i9 7980XE processors have been officially launched, the most powerful processor in the Basins Falls family, which has eighteen cores and thirty-six processing threads. This processor has a base frequency of 2.6GHz and a Boost 2.0 frequency of 4.2GHz. This processor has an L3 cache of 24.75MB and offers, in addition to the chipset lines, another 44 PCIe lines and supports up to 128GB of DDR4 @ 2666MHz memory in Quad Channel system and in theory the TDP will be 165W.

We have already talked about the performance of this processor and we will continue talking as different reviews jump. What interests us at the moment is the overclocking capacity of the processor, since they have brought this processor to 6.1Ghz in all its cores. Cooling in these cases is not a problem, because extreme cooling has been used and in this practice the processor temperature is well controlled. The problem is that this processor has a consumption of 1000W, with overclocking, obviously.

It could not be other than der8auer who has taken this processor to the limit and for this practice has withdrawn the IHS, to improve contact with the pot and make it cooler better. ASUS RoG Rampage VI APEX motherboard has been used. This processor has with OC Extremo has passed the Cinebench R15 with a stable frequency of 5.6GHz (one thing is the frequency at which it can reach and another at which it can run a benchmark without restarting) and has given 5.635 points, while the Threadripper 1950X with sixteen cores at 5.4GHz gave only 4.514 points.

The 'problem' resides in the consumption of this overclocked processor, which at a frequency of 5.5GHz, the 12V rail has had to offer 70A, so the simple calculation of applying Ohm's Law, which gives us 840W, but it is that the power when it is around 5.8-6.0GHz, reaches 1.000W, while the vCore reaches 1.45V. Yes, we are talking about a processor that consumes a lot, but under overclocking, in normal conditions the consumption is less than half, around 300-350W according to the data of the reviews seen.