Gigabyte X870 AORUS Tachyon ICE Motherboard Hits 6.3 GHz with Ryzen 9 9950X

Australian overclocker FatBoyNotSoSlim has pushed the limits of the unreleased Gigabyte X870 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard, achieving an impressive 6.3 GHz overclock on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X processor. This feat highlights the motherboard's potential for extreme overclocking. Record-Breaking Overclocking FatBoyNotSoSlim, a prominent overclocker, successfully boosted the Ryzen 9 9950X, the flagship Zen 5 desktop CPU, to 6.3 GHz, a 10.5% increase over its default boost clock of 5.7 GHz. While this isn't a world record overall, it has positioned the overclocker at the top of several benchmark leaderboards. Liquid Nitrogen Cooling and Benchmarks The overclocking experiment involved the use of liquid nitrogen cooling to achieve the stable 6.3 GHz frequency. The results have been validated across various benchmarks: 3DMark: The overclocked Ryzen 9 9950X achieved 22,828 points, a 35% improvement compared to its stock score of 16,856 points. HWBot: The setup was validated with a 23 second wP…