Echoing George Mallory's apparent response of "Because it's there" when asked why he wanted to climb Everest, super-serious overclockers need no reason for pushing hardware into uncharted territory. Armed with years of experience and no small amount of liquid helium, one team of tweakers has pushed what Intel CPUs can reach just that little bit further, with a Core i9 14900K reaching an utterly remarkable 9.1 GHz.
Word of the achievement was reported by Uniko's Hardware, which was part of the team behind the endeavour, and you can read more details of the overclocking result in the HWbot database. On face value, it might seem quite simple to do: take a standard Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex motherboard, slap some Corsair Vengeance DDR4 and a GeForce RTX 3050 into it, along with an Intel Core i9 14900K.
