All experiments with increasing the performance of processors intended for professional use are complicated by the lack of compatible motherboards that support overclocking functions at a decent level. MSI’s WS WRX80 motherboard managed to bypass this limitation, allowing AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX to be overclocked to 5150 MHz.
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Let’s not forget that this processor has 64 cores and 128 threads, and the golden rule of overclocking is somewhat consonant with the Russian proverb about the ratio of the number of female representatives on horse-drawn carts and the throttle response of a mare – the fewer active cores, the higher the maximum stable frequency achieved work. For the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX, reaching 5150 MHz is an excellent result, although single processor cores are capable of reaching 4.5 GHz without any trick in terms of cooling. To get all 64 cores and 128 threads to work under load at 5.15 GHz, a Taiwanese TSAIK enthusiast had to use a tank of liquid nitrogen to cool the processor.
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All eight slots for DDR4-3200 RAM were used in the motherboard, its total volume reached 128 GB. In the Cinebench R23 test, this system achieved a score of 116,142 points, which is a new absolute world record and only the fourth in a row to exceed the barrier of 100,000 points. The previous record was exceeded by more than ten thousand points, and given the specifics of the organization of such experiments, one cannot count on an early update of the record to new values.
