CPU Overclocking World Record History

On this page you can find the history of the CPU frequency overclocking world record from 266 MHz 1996 to 8794.33 MHz in 2021.

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A note for the reader:

Over the past decade or so I’ve been collecting information on CPU frequency overclocking world record and related benchmark records. During my time at the benchmark aggregator HWBOT, from March 2006 until January 2018, it was easy to keep track of the latest CPU frequency world records. For most record keeping during that time, I refer to the HWBOT database and my personal involvement in the overclocking scene.

For data prior to joining HWBOT, I rely on discussion topics and news articles, CPU-Z’s official Hall of Fame, and older record aggregators such as Ripping.org and Son’s WCPUID MAX Ranking. The latter was a Japanese database which was very active during the years 2000 – 2003.

I believe the CPU frequency overclocking world record timeline data is fairly accurate, though as with all historical record-keeping may be updated.

Pieter.

(PS: I also track the memory frequency world record history)

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CPU Overclocking World Record History Table

DateFrequencyNameProcessor
December 9, 20229008.82ElmorIntel Core i9-13900K
October 14, 20228812.85ElmorIntel Core i9-13900K
November 19, 20128794.33AndreYangAMD FX-8350
November 1, 20118709.06 AndreYangAMD FX-8150
November 1, 20118585.05 AndreYangAMD FX-8150
October 31, 20118491.7Chew*AMD FX-8150
October 27, 20118461.51AndreYangAMD FX-8150
September 2, 20118429.38 MacciAMD FX-8150
August 19, 20118308.94 TaPaKaHIntel Celeron D 352
September 23, 20108242.45 DuckIntel Celeron D 360
July 20, 20078220.1DuckIntel Pentium 4 631
July 20, 20078180.4DuckIntel Pentium 4 631
March 30, 20078179.89 ThuGIntel Celeron D 360
January 22, 20078000.1 ThuGIntel Pentium 4 631
January 21, 20077791.79 ThuGIntel Pentium 4 631
February 6, 20067657.6 DuckIntel Pentium 4 670
December 29, 20057638.6 DuckIntel Pentium 4 670
December 28, 20057625.1 DuckIntel Pentium 4 670
December 13, 20057608.5 DuckIntel Pentium 4 670
December 13, 20057532.8 DuckIntel Pentium 4 670
November 13, 20057473.75 KyosenIntel Pentium 4 670
September 16, 20057418.4 MemesamaIntel Pentium 4 670
August 13, 20057323.7 MemesamaIntel Pentium 4 670
August 9, 20057133.5MemesamaIntel Pentium 4 670
July 29, 20056925.2TAMIntel Pentium 4 670
June 7, 20056578.85 The StiltIntel Pentium 4 660
January 18, 20056495.2Futto-kunIntel Pentium 4 570J
November 29, 20046315.2FuggerIntel Pentium 4 560J
November 1, 20046302.3FuggerIntel Pentium 4 560J
November 1, 20046212.1FuggerIntel Pentium 4 560J
October 28, 20046114MemesamaIntel Pentium 4 560
October 16, 20046042.5MemesamaIntel Pentium 4 560
May 25, 20046009.8Macci & The StiltIntel Pentium 4 560
Jun 22, 20045574.9MemesamaIntel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
May 9, 20045387.2MemesamaIntel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
January 2, 20045326.36MemesamaIntel Pentium 4 XE 3.20G
December 30, 20035255Frank Volkel
December 2, 20035154.54MemesamaIntel Pentium 4 XE 3.20G
July 3, 20035125.91TAMIntel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
June 29, 20034872.65TAMIntel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
May 24, 20034762.4 OMEGAIntel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
February 23, 20034623.21 HolichoIntel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz
February 14, 20034599.85 HolichoIntel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz
December 8, 20024588.49HolichoIntel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz
December 1, 20024456.58TamozyouriIntel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz
November 17, 20024438.35Ja0hxvIntel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz
September 15, 20024424.99HolichoIntel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz
September 1, 20024418.38HolichoIntel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz
August 29, 20024339MuropakettiIntel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
August 19, 20024309.62Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
July 10, 20024244.7SonIntel Pentium 4 2.53 GHz
September 1, 20024130.39HolichoIntel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
April 14, 20024110HolichoIntel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
March 27, 20024010.88HolichoIntel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
March 22, 20023890.79TatumiyaIntel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz
January 23, 20023808.91HolichoIntel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz
January 19, 20023702.55TatumiyaIntel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz
January 17, 20023674.99SampsaIntel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz
January 9, 20023541.87HolichoIntel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz
November 7, 20013391.12EricIntel Xeon 1.7 GHz
October 9, 20013027.41HolichoIntel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
September 5, 20013023.98AnpanmanIntel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
April 2, 20012864.48HolichoIntel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz
March 29, 20012804.99HolichoIntel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz
March 15, 20012600.37HolichoIntel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz
March 8, 20012250.00AnpanmanIntel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz
December 13, 20002205.56Mr. ja0hxvIntel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
December 3, 20002144.52Mr. ja0hxvIntel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
December 1, 20001653.02AnpanmanIntel Pentium III 933 MHz
November 5, 20001613.45Mr. YuAMD Athlon 1100 MHz
September 3, 20001612.66HIDEIntel Pentium III 850 MHz
April 13, 20001522.71Mr. ja0hxvIntel Pentium III 800 MHz
April 9, 20001500Mr. ja0hxvIntel Pentium III 800 MHz
April 2, 20001370Mr. amtIntel Pentium III 800 MHz
December 28, 19991286.3Mr. amtIntel Pentium III 750
November 21, 19991264.92Mr. KondoIntel Pentium III 733ES
November 16, 19991238.92Mr. KondoIntel Pentium III 733ES
November 1, 19991151.51Mr. KondoAMD Athlon 700 MHz
October 7, 19991082.11Mr. KondoAMD Athlon 650 MHz
June 19, 1999921.16Mr. KondoIntel Celeron 466
March 21, 1999849.85Mr. FunanoIntel Celeron 366
March 6, 1999822Mr. KondoIntel Celeron 333
February 20, 1999811.92Mr. KondoIntel Celeron 333
February 17, 1999808.49Mr. FunanoIntel Celeron 366
January 10, 1999759.16Mr. KondoIntel Celeron 300A
December 30, 1998743.4Mr. KondoIntel Celeron 300A
December 13, 1998724.5Mr. KondoIntel Celeron 300A
November 21, 1998716KatsuyaIntel Celeron 300A
November 9, 1998715.95Mr. KondoIntel Celeron 300A
October 7, 1998698.88KAZIntel Celeron 300A
September 12, 1998675Takach
August 1998661.5RYKIntel Pentium II 450 MHz
July 1998610
April 1998590
March 1998530Mega PiIntel Pentium II 400
January 11, 1998416.5MasashiIntel Pentium II 333 MHz
December 5, 1997400+KryotechIntel Pentium II
November 17, 1997375KryotechAMD K6 266
November 1, 1997337.5MasashiIntel Pentium II 300 Mhz
November 18, 1996266KryotechIntel Pentium Pro 200 MHz
August 1, 1996233MasashiIntel Pentium Pro 200

CPU Overclocking World Record Historical Databases

  • Nifty Fextpup SGSP (1999)
  • Son’s WCPUID MAX Ranking (2001)
  • SysOpt OC Database (2003)
  • VR-Zone CPU Overclocking Databases (2004)
  • X86-secret CPU-Z Hall of Fame (2005)
  • Ripping -The Overclocking World Record Database (2007)
  • CPU-Z OC World Records (2018)
  • HWBOT CPU Frequency Hall of Fame (2018)

Katsuya’s November 21, 1998, 716 MHz Intel Celeron 300A

I came across this overclocking achievement while searching through the news archives of the now defunct Overclocking.com website. The overclocking result was reported in February 1999, but the Japanese overclocker had originally reported on the achievement on November 21, 1998, in a personal blog entry.

Katsuya's cpu frequency overclocking blog entry on November 21, 1998
Katsuya’s blog entry on November 21, 1998

The blog entry reads (Google Translated):

“Updated information for Pentium II.

Since Mr. Kondo sent me an image during the liquid nitrogen cooling experiment , I will introduce it on the cooling page. I sent an interesting image such as liquid nitrogen boiling in the low temperature range and a thermometer that can measure up to absolute zero degree.

Shooting images, experiment cooperation is [Mr.] Trash and [Mr.] Rocky. Both of them got permission to post articles and post images. Thank you very much.

As you probably know, cooling with liquid nitrogen is at its boiling point when compared with the cooling by liquefied carbon dioxide that I am doing, the decisive difference is its boiling point.

When introducing liquefied carbon dioxide cooling, we performed a low temperature operation test of PC as a preliminary experiment.

I put it in a thermostatic oven together with the motherboard, and I carried out the operation test in the vicinity of -70 ° C, but in short time experiments each device worked without problems.

In the cooling zone using liquid nitrogen, the motherboard itself seems to stop working.

Contrary to the fever of the CPU, in this experiment it may be necessary to make efforts to not cool too much.  In the future, while also careful about insulation around the CPU, the next experiment including the [Pentium II], P55C etc. seems to be planned next.

It seems time is approaching when the operation record of SuperPi [1M] digits breaks the wall of 2 minutes and 30 seconds.”

The cooling system is detailed on a separate page.

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