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Der8auer is the first overclocker to reach 7 GHz on Skylake using the Core i7 6700K processor. According to the validation submitted to the CPU-Z database, Der8auer uses a multiplier of 69x and a base clock frequency of 101.56 MHz. The retail Core i7 6700K has only one of the four cores enabled and also has the uncore under-clocked to 2438 MHz. The rest of the system consists of an ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Gene LGA1151 motherboard and 2x 4GB of G.SKILL DDR4 memory clocked at DDR4-3148 CL12.

In the CPU Frequency for LGA1151 processors, Der8auer has a 8.97 MHz lead over Chi-Kui Lam from Hong Kong and 199.47 MHz points over Smoke from Russia.

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