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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 expert overclocker has shown us, pushing the Alder Lake chip to a rather staggering 57% above its default clock speed.
This feat was achieved by Der8auer, a well-known German overclocker who has set many previous records when juicing up chips, and managed to get the G6900 CPU to hit 5,338MHz (up from the default base clock speed of 3.4GHz).
What's even more interesting here, aside from a low-end chip blazing away at over 5.3GHz, is that of course this is a non-K processor – only Intel's 'K' model CPUs are officially able to be overclocked. However, with Alder Lake, other models can be ramped up, at least if they're running on a Z690 (high-end) motherboard, using the BCLK unlock capability in the BIOS (BCLK meaning base clock).
Recently Der8auer has also demonstrated overclocking other Alder Lake non-K processors including Intel's 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 5,400MHz – about 26% faster than its rated boost.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday January 19 2022, @06:12PM
You got some good answers. I'll say that as long as this works, these budget dual/quad/6-core CPUs become that much more attractive and they were already grabbing plenty of attention (the 6-core i5-12400 in particular). A simple 33% overclock would get the G6900 to 4.5 GHz. This is something that could actually be felt, improving its single-thread performance to beat a lot of older stuff, and improving the bad multi-thread performance (because it's only 2-core, 2-thread).
I think you are better off not overclocking most CPUs to cut down on power and heat. The 65W desktop APUs from AMD are more than enough performance for most people. On the other hand, if you have a Raspberry Pi 4 with a decent heatsink on it, you want to overclock that by at least 33% to 2 GHz. Because it is slow at any clock speed, and the stock clock speed is meant to enable the worst thermal situation (plastic case).
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