The Intel i9-12900KS processor has been released for some time, after MSI's overclocking team has overclocked it to 7.5GHz.
And today, according to Tom's Hardware, overclocking player "Splave" used 70 liters of liquid nitrogen to break eight world records in 6 hours, pushing the i9-12900KS to 7.8GHz on the octa-core. Splave reportedly got a full set of 14 i9-12900KS in order to select the best chip for overclocking.
The motherboard used by Splave is the ASRock Z690 Aqua OC, which is more suitable for overclocking and has only 2 DIMM memory slots. In terms of memory, Splave used G.Skill Trident Z5 EditionDDR5 Hynix memory.
With LN2 liquid nitrogen heat dissipation, Splave reaches 7.8GHz when the eight P-cores of the i9-12900KS are enabled, while the i9-12900K peak can reach 7.6GHz.
The i9-12900KS is designed for 8 large cores + 8 small cores, of which the small core main frequency is 2.5GHz and the turbo frequency is 4GHz, which is 100MHz higher than the i9-12900K. The large core main frequency is 3.4GHz and the turbo frequency is 5.5GHz, which is 300MHz higher than the i9-12900K. The base power consumption is 150W, which is 25W higher than the i9-12900K, and the maximum turbo power consumption is 241W, which is the same as the i9-12900K.
i9-12900KS is now available at 5699 yuan.