A few weeks ago South Africa’s No.1 ranked overclocker DrWeez got his hands on an ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex motherboard, the perfect platform for him to get more familiar with the latest Intel Kaby Lake architecture CPUs. Last week he returned to YouTube screens with Overclocking Session #52 and an effort to push past the limitations he encountered in the previous session. In Session #51 Andrew managed to push his Core i7 7700k to 6.7GHz, a limitation that hoped to push past in session #52.

To kick off the session Andrew loads up a profile created by Russian overclocker Slamms, with a few alterations to the CPU core voltage settings – just to rein it in a touch. Next he turns off HyperThreading and also turns off two of the processors cores. In terms of benchmarks he aims to run a series of single threaded 2D benchmarks including SuperPi, PiFast and others with two cores and two threads and a target clock of around 6.9GHz – 200MHz above the highest clocks achieved in the previous session.

You can watch the full two and a half hour benching adventure with DrWeez, his Core i7 7700K and the ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex motherboard, here on the DrWeez YouTube channel.