A man named Allen "Splave" Golibersuch attempted to push the 7th Generation Intel Core i7-7700K processor to its limits and attained insane clock speeds of 7Ghz. Intel announced the processors a few months back. Unfortunately, the chip is not yet officially released for mass market but sample chips have been sent out to reviewers and enthusiasts like Splave over the past few weeks for a test run.
The Intel Core i7-7700K runs at a standard clock speed of 4.2GHz, and will reach 4.5GHz with Turbo Mode. Splave's overclock was stable at 7022.96 MHz, effectively completing wPrime's 32M benchmark in just 2.953 amazing seconds. To compare, desktop processors are usually capable of completing the same benchmark under 10 seconds, providing us with an idea of what to expect with Intel's Kaby Lake processors.
Splave's build includes disabling the HyperThreading feature and two physical cores of the quad-core processor. The multiplier was increased to 69x while the Vcore voltage was increased to 2V, which is around 1.2V. The ASRock Z170 OC Formula, an old motherboard, was also used for this test. Lastly, Liquid Nitrogen was used to cool down the processor, as these settings will most likely. It's not exactly the kind of thing you'd readily have in your house. In case you happen to get your hands on some Liquid Nitrogen, it should be pretty easy to achieve 5GHz or more.
Kaby Lake is the 7th generation processor from Intel succeeding the Skylake. However, the anticipated processor will not have any major upgrades.
Kaby Lake will power a range of feature-rich designs, per Intel. This includes more than 120 devices with support for the Thunderbolt 3.0 standard, more than 100 designs supporting the Windows Hello biometric login, and more than 50 4K designs. Kaby Lake is also Intel's first platform to lack official driver support for older Windows versions.
