Massman

Yes, should be possible. I get OCCT AVX2 at 5.4G and OCCT SSE at 5.5 GHz with just PBO tuning

Very nice! Next step: take over as HWBOT admin

Congrats on seeing 9 GHZ! In itself that's already a great achievement ... LHE is not easy :)

:)

Threadripper power

Thanks guys! :)

Ah. Yea, FLL OC Mode to enable high OC frequency is only supported from ucode 0x12. So not supported in the 0x9 ucode you're using for non-K OC. That's probably why setting it in BIOS doesn't do anything. As far as I know, CPU-Z has server-side checks for FLL and microcode to ensure the proper configuration is used for validations (to weed out any of those false high frequencies). My guess is that your validation got blocked because it lacks the proper ucode/FLL OC configuration (not because someone manually intervened).

Did you set FLL OC mode manually?

Unfortunately I didn't bring my USB drive so I couldn't save my backups

Nice!

Thanks Shamino for the invitation. Sapphire Rapids is a lot of fun!

In case you're interested, I dug through the archives and found the helium invoice from the when we hosted the liquid helium event in Taipei during Computex 2017. I don't know what the rate is today, but back then we paid TW$150K ~ US$5K for 200L. I think this session we only had 100L. Maybe the original plan was to purchase 2x 4090 for 3D benching but that didn't fit the budget ?

This was a lot of fun! Thanks ASUS team and Intel for the invitation and support! And let's save the 9G button for next attempts!

Awesome result, nice to see a Core i5 topping the leaderboards! Also great photo of a group with nothing but talented overclockers and zeropluszero!

Thanks to Shamino for his patience towards me :)