AMD's Threadripper chips are looking set to dominate in far more impressive fashion than the company's newly released Vega GPUs and their overclocking potential makes that even more emphatic. One overclocker who got hold of a Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has managed to push the chip to 5.2GHz after supercooling it down to severely low temperatures using liquid nitrogen.
A special overclocking event took place at this year's Siggraph 2017, which started on July 30 and will run through to August 3. It saw overclockers cool Threadripper chips down to seriously cool levels, giving them the ability to push 1.6 volts through the core to achieve a x52 multiplayer on a 100MHz bus speed, for a 5.2GHz overclock all in.
This wasn't just Windows stable either, but benchmark ready. The chip was able to set a new record in Cinebench of 4122cb. The previous record for a 16-core CPU in the benchmark was 2867cb, showing what an improvement in power this Threadripper chip is.
KitGuru was on hand to take some pictures of the event and showed the massive capabilities of the new Threadripper hardware.
What we'll need to wait on now are the water and air cooled overclocking numbers. If Threadripper chips can be pushed deep into the 4GHz realm with more pedestrian cooling, they could be the chip of choice for hardware enthusiasts moving forward.
