Intel’s lowly Celeron G6900 CPU gets overclocked to a staggering 5.3GHz
Intel's lowly Celeron G6900 CPU gets overclocked to a staggering 5.3GHz
Intel's lowly Celeron G6900 processor can be pepped up massively, an adept overclocker has shown us, pushing the Alder Lake bit to a rather staggering 57% above its default clock speed.
This feat was achieved by Der8auer, a well-known German overclocker who has set up many previous records when juicing upwardly chips, and managed to become the G6900 CPU to hit 5,338MHz (up from the default base of operations clock speed of iii.4GHz).
What's even more interesting here, aside from a low-stop chip blazing away at over five.3GHz, is that of course this is a not-K processor – only Intel's 'Grand' model CPUs are officially able to be overclocked. However, with Alder Lake, other models can be ramped upwardly, at to the lowest degree if they're running on a Z690 (loftier-end) motherboard, using the BCLK unlock capability in the BIOS (BCLK pregnant base of operations clock).
Recently Der8auer has also demonstrated overclocking other Alder Lake non-K processors including Intel'south Core i5-12400, with seriously impressive results (reaching 5,240MHz across all cores). Plus in this new video, he shows the Intel Core i3-12100 hitting five,400MHz – about 26% faster than its rated boost.
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Taking that last bespeak, it's worth noting that the Core i3-12100 running at 5.4GHz with all-cores managed to pretty much continue footstep with the AMD Ryzen five 5600X in Cinebench R20 multi-thread. Given the big price difference hither – the Ryzen processor costs effectually twice as much – that's seriously impressive, although recall overclocking results with the 12100 will vary (depending on the quality of the chip), and this is just a single benchmark (gaming performance for example will doubtless be very dissimilar).
However, even given those caveats, the overclocking of Alder Lake fries via BCLK would appear to provide a sizeable dollop of extra performance mileage for those with a skilful enough motherboard. And it's certainly eye-opening to see a Celeron hit such speeds – not that the G6900, as a dual-core CPU, is whatever keen shakes for, say, the likes of gaming even at loftier clock speeds (and of course you'd never pair such a chip with the necessary high-end motherboard in the existent world).
Speaking of motherboards, Der8auer used a couple of Asus Z690 models when testing these overclocks so far, but theoretically other boards – and those from different manufacturers – should work too, or at least some of them (notation that the overclocking expert failed to accomplish the feat on a couple of other Asus mobos). Obviously, information technology could be the case that the necessary capability in determining whether non-K overclocking is possible may be an external clock generator, as this might be required for the Unlock BCLK feature in the BIOS.
Although as Tom's Hardware, which spotted this, points out, in theory Intel has previously said that such an external clock generator wouldn't exist necessary for overclocking, and that a 'synthetic BCLK' could let for tweaking on motherboards that don't accept 1.
At any rate, in that location'southward also the exciting possibility that this kind of overclock could be possible on lower-terminate boards with Alder Lake. Indeed, in Der8auer's YouTube video comments, he notes that he's found two B660 motherboards that "should technically" permit for non-K overclocking like this. These have been ordered, and Der8auer is hoping to provide an update on whether he tin can pull this off in the next few days.
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