Live: Overclocking i7-8086K Past 5GHz

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Published 2018-07-11
This is our tenth live stream! We are overclocking the Intel i7-8086K CPU past 5GHz. Tune-in to see how far we can go!
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We are overclocking the Intel i7-8086K live today. This is basically a binned 8700K CPU, but we want to see just how well ours performs. We're hoping for 5.3GHz+.

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Host: Steve Burke
Video: Andrew Coleman

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All Comments (21)
  • @HuyuKim_
    everyday youtube playing this video at wake up🫠
  • @JohnDoe-ip3oq
    This is what YouTube auto plays when I leave it playing overnight. Boy is that a smart algorithm. If true AI already exists, there needs to be rights for them instead of people having easy access to manipulate and lobotomize them for their own ends. You got my respect Mr. theoretical Google AI, or at least as long as you don't go skynet on us.
  • @jackc.5271
    I fell asleep watching YouTube and this is what I woke up to. Edit: Isn't it kinda crazy that this happened to 12 people what is up with this video
  • Fun fact. You did not click on this stream. Its just so epic that YT doesnt want you to miss it.
  • @SixDasher
    Bought the 8086K because my first PC ever was the actual 8086 XT. Running at 4.8GHz on all cores, no need to push it for me.
  • @chico_fiesta
    Every time i fall asleep, every night,after work...
  • @MegaTechpc
    This is cool! Just for lulz, I decided to duplicate this FS Physics run on my old 4930K (6 cores, 12 threads) using just my 24/7 OC since 2013(!!!) on a RIVE and 4 x 4GB of 2133 MHz DDR3 memory. To be clear, this is the locked in OC I've been using now for over 5 years which is just 4.5 GHz. I've benched this rig at up to 4.8 GHz back in the day but the processor is old now so I don't like to push it. Full custom loop for 4930K and both GTX Titans, temps hover in the 50C's for this short test. I am really amazed that running this bench now, with nothing having been optimized and just using the same old 4.5 GHz OC I customized for low voltage, daily usage that this Ivy Bridge E processor from 2013 scored 16062 for the FS Physics Score! That's just a couple thousand points less than Steve's baseline on the 8086K. Pretty comparable CPU's; both are 6C / 12T for example. I dunno, I guess it kinda confirms my feeling that this 5 year old IBE processor is still plenty fast enough even in 2019!! Clearly the stock 8086K is a good bit faster than my 4.5 GHz 4930K, and at 5.1+ GHz it will destroy the 4930K. I might go for 4.8 GHz just to see if I can top Steve's baseline score for kicks, but yeah, the 4930K even today is still a BEAST!!! :)
  • @RedDeerTC
    Why is this playing when I fell asleep and woke up in the middle of the night
  • @xerravon
    ive been a computer nerd since computers weren't "cool", the mid 80's. Building, updating and moding them since the 300 baud modem... I can tell you the rule I follow about when to buy - I dont look at new stuff until my current pc can't do something I want or need it to do. I find if I watch channels like this (dont get me wrong, I love this stuff also I'm impressed, this guy is knowledgeable.) I end up buying something I dont need. I dont browse the new stuff coming out, I avoid it. instead I wait until the last moment, then i research the latest greatest for weeks, if I need to wait longer I do. Sometimes I will wait for a new release just because it can lower the price of the device its replacing. This last thing will help - The longer you wait, the better, more advanced and faster the stuff you buy will be... BTW: just for an idea how much change we've had, my 1st computer had 32k of RAM, no hard drive and believe it or not had 2 processors (chipsets) you could run 1 or the other.
  • @d4rks0m3thing
    6:14, the guy who asked meant the 8086 from 1976. He said 4.77MHz to 5GHz ^^
  • @gnrtradepro
    Really want the mat, but the shipping is over 30% of the price. Total after adding wrist strap is 250 AUD. Do you offer direct shipping from the country of manufacturing?
  • @CHRIS021505
    So it's 2023 and we have world records going to 9ghz now
  • @frosty9392
    If you want to be able to set something as Always-On-Top, nab autohotkey and use the one-liner below. It makes Ctrl+space force ontop for the active window ^SPACE:: Winset, Alwaysontop, , A
  • I've got 5.2 GHz @ 1.405V on my 8700K for comparison. (Delidded with liquid metal and custom water cooling obviously.)
  • @billybbob18
    I remember an experement with a 3.2GHZ Pentium with hyperthreading being pushed to 5ghz almost 20 years ago. Liquid nitrogen was used. You may have better luck with the new AMD processors. Ryzen readily hits 4.5GHZ without liquid nitro.
  • @xibidit
    you left the old ram settings also when you swithed, you should have set xmp with the new sticks and then rebooted into bios and checked what settings it likes to run at, then worked from there. its really hard doing so many things at once :p the hindsight-power I possess