Ever since AMD and Intel repositioned their Ryzen Threadripper and Xeon W (well, Core Extreme) processors from high-end desktops to workstations, their overclocking capability was largely forgotten, with only a few professional overclockers trying to push those CPUs to their limits. This week, overclocker SkyWalkerAMD managed to overclock Intel's 60-core Xeon W9-3595X (Sapphire Rapids Refresh) processor to 5.80 GHz, which is a noticeably better result when compared to its predecessor. There is a catch, though.
SkyWalkerAMD reveals little about how he managed to push Intel's latest extreme workstation-bounded Xeon W9-3595X to 5.80 GHz. The only things that he officially disclosed are that he increased the voltage of the CPU to 1.234V, he used an Asus Pro WS W790E-Sage SE motherboard equipped with 256 GB of DDR5 memory, and that the CPU temperature was 70 degrees Celsius. The latter suggests that he used a very powerful water-cooling loop. However, his formal HWbot submission indicates that the CPU voltage was 1.27V, the CPU temperature was 58 degrees Celsius under load, and he used an all-in-one liquid cooling.
