Intel Core Ultra 9 285K overclocked to 7.5GHz smashes a bunch of records – and of course AI was involved (it had to be, right?)

Intel’s new Arrow Lake desktop processors (Core Ultra 200S range) are just out, and inevitably that means overclockers are already pushing the flagship to its limits, which thus far has resulted in an overclock of 7.5GHz for the Core Ultra 9 285K.

This was achieved by well-known overclocker Elmor as Asus explains in a blog post, with the Core Ultra 9 CPU sitting in an Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard.

Elmor – and a team working on the project, comprised of 3D Systems, Diabatix, ElmorLabs, and SkatterBencher (another famous overclocker) – hit 7488.8MHz, to be precise, using liquid helium cooling. By default, the Core Ultra 9 285K boosts to 5.7GHz (clocks, and power usage, are tamer with Arrow Lake than its predecessors).

Asus also highlights that the LN2 pot – which is literally a pot, the container used for the LN or liquid nitrogen (or helium) gas to ...