**A Glimpse into Overclocking with the Intel Core i9-13900K and Azeroth Motherboard**

As I sat down to work on my system, I was filled with excitement and anticipation. The Intel Core i9-13900K, a 5.3 gigahertz all-core processor, was paired with the Azeroth motherboard, which is equipped with 10 x 9000k memory modules. This setup would be put through its paces to see just how stable it could remain under extreme conditions.

I began by running the Tomb Raider benchmark, a program designed to push processors to their limits. I left the system in a loop, allowing it to run continuously for an extended period of time. To my surprise, the system remained stable overnight, never once encountering any issues or crashes. This was a remarkable feat, especially considering that the processor is capable of sustaining speeds up to 5.6 gigahertz.

The Azeroth motherboard and Intel Extreme Tuning Utility played a crucial role in this process. The cooling solution used, known as "Tec" (thermoelectric cooler), proved to be an excellent match for the processor, keeping it stable even at high temperatures. Additionally, the BIOS settings allowed me to fine-tune the overclocking, making adjustments as needed to ensure stability.

However, I did encounter a few minor issues with the Intel software. For instance, when running in Cryo mode, which is designed to minimize thermal throttling, I found that the system would occasionally reboot without warning. This was annoying, but not debilitating, and I was able to work around it by simply disabling Cryo mode whenever necessary.

The overclocking process itself was a lot of fun, with the ability to tweak settings and monitor performance in real-time. With the system stable at 5.3 gigahertz, I decided to push the memory clocks up a notch, hoping to squeeze out some extra performance. This resulted in Geekbench scores that were remarkably close to 1500, indicating excellent performance.

**Cooling Solutions: A Black Hole of Time**

The cooling solution used in this system was an interesting beast. The 360 aio liquid cooler is designed for ambient operation, but its high-velocity pump motor made it a distinct departure from traditional coolers. I couldn't help but wonder if this would be the future of computer cooling, with solutions like thermoelectric coolers (TECs) and liquid metal thermal interfaces promising even greater efficiency.

As I sat back to admire my handiwork, I realized that this system was more than just a pretty face – it was a testament to the power of modern computing. With its 250-watt TEC cooling solution and 500-watt GPU power supply, this system was truly capable of handling even the most demanding workloads.

However, I couldn't shake the feeling that this system was more suited for enthusiasts and hobbyists rather than everyday users. The noise level of the pump motor and the occasional reboot issues in Cryo mode made it clear that this was not a production-ready solution for mass-market consumption.

In conclusion, my experience with this overclocking rig has been nothing short of thrilling. While it's unlikely to be used for everyday computing, I've had an absolute blast experimenting with its various settings and pushing the system to its limits. Who knows what other surprises lie in store for this powerful processor and innovative cooling solution?

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni know i know 14 nanometers what are you gonna do are we locked into 5.2 or 5.3 gigahertz what's what's the upper end what's the upper limit there's new 14 nanometer processors coming from intel what do we do to get the clocks higher uh i've got an idea cooler master and intel have teamed up huh see on the end of the box they've teamed up this is the master liquid ml360 subzero thermoelectric liquid cooler yeah that's right we can go sub ambient with sub-zero you know sub-zero no no not that subzero that was uh that was that was uh inspired by the mortal kombat theme which was similar to but for the purposes of copyright wholly distinct from the mortal kombat theme all right at first blush this might look like just a normal aio but in fact it's not the pump is separate from the actual junction so this uses a peltier junction to cool your cpu spoiler alert this is not going to let you run 5.8 gigahertz on all 10 cores on a 10 900k or even anything beyond uh part of that is because this just doesn't have the cooling capacity to do that because you would be dumping upwards of 500 watts into the cpu at that point but the socket just can't deliver that much power to the cpu but you can boost your single thread clocks you're going to be dumping a lot of watts through that 14 nanometer process into one or two cores or three cores if you want the land speed record for cpu single clock and you don't want to go liquid nitrogen this is probably for you so this is a product for somebody that is uh pushing the envelope and not afraid to murder your cpu um or somebody that just wants to run their cpu at sub ambient temp temperatures i mean this is a product that doesn't make sense unless you're going to overclock you can't have a lot of fun with this i mean i don't think it would be unfair to say that this is one of the most fun products that i have ever tested but i don't recommend for general consumption i mean it kind of makes sense though if you think about it if you're going to buy something like this which is a tremendous amount of fun i mean if you've got time to kill and you want to mess around with stuff like this this was a crazy amount of fun to play with but you know is this a thing i don't know the single most impressive thing about this is how stable it could keep the temperature of the cpu it was shockingly impressive basically if your cpu was mostly okay but occasionally you brush up against those like 95 degrees c you know temperature zones where you may be hurting your cpu this is really good about sort of taking the edge off those instances when you're doing overclocking so this is also kind of a product maybe for experienced overclockers because you don't necessarily know what you're looking for you don't necessarily know what you're getting into because by the time you spend on this cooler and the highest end motherboard and the highest end cpu and the highest end everything else you could have probably purchased an even more high-end system but the engineering the cooler master has done with this thing it really is incredible i mean this is going to go down in the history books as one of the best you know relatively compact um sub-ambient cooling systems that there is i mean there's uh the older systems which were you know like external like you had a you know a really heavy brick that sat outside your case and it would do sub ambient cooling and you know those sort of went down in the history books those were legendary i never got my hands on one of those but this they can have this back when they pry it for my cold dead hands because it really is a lot of fun to play with without getting into liquid nitrogen and some of the other stuff i mean i think i had the most fun with this on a 10-600 k so setting this up with the 10600k and trying to push it to like 5.8 gigahertz on like two cores that was a lot of fun i accidentally murdered that cpu but it was a lot of fun this is a product that has a five year warranty so cooler masters definitely got some confidence there now in case you're wondering does this come with am4 mounting hardware no no it does not there's no am4 mounting hardware what do you think it now of course now the one thing i was surprised about is there's also no 2011 mounting hardware 2011-3 it's right out i'm gonna try to cool the 10980xe with this no now this cooler really is now this cooler really is absolutely ridiculous it actually has a rubber seal a gasket to go around the motherboard why would it have that well sub-admin cooling condensation may be a real worry now it tries to monitor the temperature to try to prevent condensation but you know there it is and that's part of the reason why it doesn't come with am4 or 2011 mounting hardware is because you would need technically a little bit of a different bracket here and the way that the copper is machined or the 2011 contact area on those larger cpus is a little bigger so this is definitely designed for those really hot running 14 nanometer cpus i mean this is basically designed for the 14 nanometer process which is you know here to stay for you know current 10th gen 11th gen maybe even 12th gen it's the direction we're headed also how cool is it that the cold plate requires a 12 volt pcie power connection goodness gracious me so for our test system that we're using we're using the asrock z490 tai chi why well let's get these killer fans on the vrm it's also got a pretty solid vrm implementation so we can dump hundreds of watts into our plucky little intel 10900k at retail 10900k this is a nice cpu this is a good setup this is a good board for it it's kudos all around installation in our fractal case here not really a big deal pretty straightforward one really clever thing that cooler master has done is the screws for the fans are actually threaded so these are thumb screws that hold the fans to the radiator but then you can put a set of screws inside the thumb screws in this way you can actually mount the pump to the fan and still have it secured you know the fan secured to the radiator so that works really well although in the fractal case i probably flip the fans around the other way so that their intake rather than exhaust but these are also really high static pressure fans you can definitely hear the pump running you can definitely see that cold plate running you got to run that pcie power it's a little weird in this case i think if i would do this over and try to cable manage this i would bring that pcie power cable for the cold plate up and over and behind the motherboard i think that would probably work out well for this particular build now the initial setup of course you just get this weird little red light on the cold plate and it doesn't seem like the cold plate's working from looking at the info in hardware 64. what you have to do you've got to download some drivers you need to download the cooler master software and install it on windows to really have things take off and be able to get more fine grained control and understand what's up with the cold plate the pump temperatures and how hard you want it to work now as cooler master says on their own website you know the temperature difference here is really under light load is when it will really bring the temperature down but i think that that's a little misleading because you know if your cpu is running at 100 watts or less it's basically idling and yeah it's going to be at 16 degrees c but it's idling that doesn't really you know i mean i guess that's good but that's not really a thing but you know as you can see when it gets under full load basically it's equivalent to a 360 millimeter all in one but again where i think this thing really shines is when you're running like two cores maybe four cores at a really ridiculously high clock speed because you can use it to dial in even more stability this is really only good for doing benchmarks and getting you know straight to the top of the leaderboard it's our test system here with the asrock z490 we've also got our founders rtx 3090 beastly 3090 and this is the setup that we use for all of our testing and confirmation once you've got the cooler master software installed and you've got it doing what it should do then you can run the intel xtu software now the intel xtu software definitely supports that asrock z490 motherboard right out of the box and it's going to dial in whatever frequency it can get stable and wow it really is stable now pro tip when you're running xtu turn xmp off i don't know why but you can turn xmp off and get a better clock running xtu then you want to turn xmp back on after it's done and you should be pretty stable now let's talk for a second about price i kind of alluded to this but this is an expensive piece of kit if you want to do sub ambient and you're going to spend this much money you could do a custom loop that has some sub ambient components externally but you'll be spending a few hundred more dollars although maybe it's worth it or maybe it's not worth it i don't know this is a lot of fun to play with this is definitely uh for a particular kind of customer this is definitely not a general recommendation because you're spending as much on the cooling as you have on your cpu maybe more so you know keep that in mind this is a lot of fun to play with and uh it's one of those toys where you guys are welcome to come over to my house and play with this together and we'll enjoy it together you don't need to own it you can just watch me play with it and get just as much enjoyment out of it unless you're gonna go against me for those records on like fire strike and uh you know the 3d mark benchmarks in which case i'm coming for you another kind of weird thing that i'll point out that's sort of washed out in testing is you need this link on this sheet of paper to download the software if you just go to cooler master's website and download master plus which is what i initially expected to do you know being familiar with cooler masters products but you're quite good no you need this and you're going to be downloading something called the intel cryo software it's from cooler master i mean cooler master they've really know what they're doing so i didn't think it was a bit weird that i can't use master plus i need the intel cryo utilities so it goes with that whole intel theme this is pretty much for lga 1200 and beyond because well 14 nanometer it's here to stay that intel installer also kind of buggy in fact windows smart screen was like hey i don't recognize this you probably shouldn't run it which is kind of funny because it's actually from intel and it also bombed out the first time because it said that i didn't plug in the usb cable when in fact device manager shows i did plug in the usb cable it just doesn't have a driver because windows update hadn't downloaded the driver for it yet i feel like this hasn't had a lot of quality control on the software side which is disappointing because cooler master has brought their a-game for the cooler hardware now you might be wondering how much power does this cooler consume with its active cooling uh upwards of 250 watts when you're figuring your power supply you know configuration figure an extra 250 watts just for the cooler one cool thing about this that it has built in is a dew point that's aware of the dew point so it doesn't make it so cold that it's going to condensate of course you can run it in unregulated mode which will give you maximum cooling but there is a chance of condensation and condensation will short things out and there's no warranty and blah blah blah so definitely don't do unregulated mode unless you really really know what you're doing but that's why it has the rubber seal but you can still get condensation on the back of the motherboard depending especially when the cpu is not idle but still for adding only 0.12 volts to our 10 900k here and being able to achieve 5.4 gigahertz and being able to do gaming and get a little bit of a performance bump i mean i don't think anybody's buying a 30 90 to do 1080p gaming with shadow of the tomb raider but if you are you can get quite a nice performance bump in shadow of the tomb raider at that you know 1080p frame rate because you're lowering the round trip time and you can boost your frame rate by just a little bit but like i say this is for benchmarking and just getting some pretty numbers on a graph not you know well you could do it everyday usage but i mean that's a really expensive cooler to use for everyday usage but man this is a lot of fun now one really disappointing thing is the intel performance maximizer is completely not compatible with this the intel performance maximizer reboots your machine and for whatever reason intel didn't include that functionality in their software so when the cryo software is not running in windows the cryo thing is not operational you have to be running the software in windows in order for the cryo thing to do its thing so linux i mean you can actually run the software under linux because it's just a usb device but i don't really want to get into that because it doesn't work like you think it does but you could theoretically do it because it's a usb device but let's not talk about that but that's another nail in the coffin in using this cooler on another platform like say x299 or something else it's really just designed for the 10th and 11th gen processors and i know 11th gen's not here yet at least at the time that i'm shooting this video it's right around the corner and this might be super handy for it because i never would have thought i could get 5.4 or 5.5 on my 10 900k that's a retail chip it's retail it's better than my intel also sent a sample and played around with the intel sample this is better than the sample this is also a really recent 10900k so hey maybe the process is improving now i gotta say after tweaking and tuning and taking the reins off this is much more insane than i really expected okay so we're working with the tai chi and you gotta kind of take the reins off the tai chi a little bit it's actually got some safeties to try to prevent you from melting your processor so once i'm able to full oc mode so i can dump you know 350 watts let's say into this 10900k this cryogenic cooler really showed its stuff i mean it was over 200 watts 250 watts at times but the dividends it paid off 5.6 gigahertz on up to two cores all the way down to 5.3 gigahertz all core although that 5.3 gigahertz all-core i don't know that it could sustain that for long periods of time but for running benchmarks and even longer gaming sessions that have those burst speeds up to 5.6 gigahertz this could do it i left it in the loop of you know the tomb raider built-in benchmark just running over and over again i left it overnight because i was like surely this is not going to last overnight and it did it lasted overnight it was at least stable enough overnight it's not a perfectly stable system at that speed doing literally anything but it did last long enough and i probably shouldn't call it shirley but i think that's its new name shirley the little processor that could and the rest of our setup other than you know the azeroth tai chi motherboard and 10 900k our memory certainly helps it's ddr4 4000. this is actually from crucial it's a crucial ballistics i'm gonna be including that in another video kind of a head-to-head shootout you know fast memory it's clocked fast but the timings are kind of loose like timings versus the other stuff how much of a difference does that make there's kind of a lot to that that's the story for another day but i've actually i'm kind of embarrassed to admit how much fun i've had with this because is this a system and i can get real work done on no not at all but this is also the only system that i've ever seen that is you know stable at more than 5.3 gigahertz for uh you know until you run out of liquid nitrogen you know the tech in here the uh that's a pun because it's tec thermoelectric cooler i see what i did is actually really impressive cooler master has done an exceptional job putting this hardware together there's other little annoyances with the intel software too other than the ones that i've already mentioned like if you have cryo mode turned on and you need to reboot well it'll remember the overclocking intel extreme tuning utility but it doesn't necessarily reapply cryo mode until the software loads that's incredibly dumb the software should have a feature where it's like just running cryo mode all the time i mean i know the whole dew point thing and maybe that's a concern maybe don't drop it down to like 16 degrees c just drop it down to like 45 degrees c when you're in the i don't know the software is rebooting i don't know what's going on because you can totally have a stable safe overclock but then sometimes it'll just shut off because it's not completely perfectly 100 stable but it's pretty darn good now geekbench on 10 cores a little fiddling 1477 1484. close to 1500 if i push the memory clocks a little bit it's all down to the memory side of things now to tune for stability which is one of the reasons why i recommend disabling xmp before you dial it in because you could actually be facing a memory instability not a cpu instability so you don't want to dump extra voltage into your cpu just then heat you got to get rid of when it's not a problem with your cpu it can be a lot of fun to play with this stuff it can also be a black hole of time a distraction from actually having a working computer but it is a lot of fun ultimately it's up to you do you want something that you can kind of fiddle around with sub ambient cooling it's a toy it's something that is to be experimented with i don't know that it's for everyday use it's also a little louder than you would get with a normal 360 aio you can definitely hear the the pump motor going it's a high velocity operation it seems but like i say this was a surprising amount of fun i had a lot more enjoyment out of messing with all this and turning all the knobs and i really thought that i would and trying to get higher and higher and higher geekbench scores on this platform i wonder if tech cooling is going to be the future or if you know things like arm are going to take over the world because you know impressive things are possible in five watts apparently but 250 watts for the cooler 250 watts for the cpu 500 watts for the gpu we're starting to have problems fitting in the north american electrical code for a single electrical outlet at that point right on my list level one this has been a quick look at all that i had a lot of fun with this join me in the forums at level one if you have one of these setups or you're messing around with this kind of stuff i'd love to hear from you i'm signing out and i'll see you therei know i know 14 nanometers what are you gonna do are we locked into 5.2 or 5.3 gigahertz what's what's the upper end what's the upper limit there's new 14 nanometer processors coming from intel what do we do to get the clocks higher uh i've got an idea cooler master and intel have teamed up huh see on the end of the box they've teamed up this is the master liquid ml360 subzero thermoelectric liquid cooler yeah that's right we can go sub ambient with sub-zero you know sub-zero no no not that subzero that was uh that was that was uh inspired by the mortal kombat theme which was similar to but for the purposes of copyright wholly distinct from the mortal kombat theme all right at first blush this might look like just a normal aio but in fact it's not the pump is separate from the actual junction so this uses a peltier junction to cool your cpu spoiler alert this is not going to let you run 5.8 gigahertz on all 10 cores on a 10 900k or even anything beyond uh part of that is because this just doesn't have the cooling capacity to do that because you would be dumping upwards of 500 watts into the cpu at that point but the socket just can't deliver that much power to the cpu but you can boost your single thread clocks you're going to be dumping a lot of watts through that 14 nanometer process into one or two cores or three cores if you want the land speed record for cpu single clock and you don't want to go liquid nitrogen this is probably for you so this is a product for somebody that is uh pushing the envelope and not afraid to murder your cpu um or somebody that just wants to run their cpu at sub ambient temp temperatures i mean this is a product that doesn't make sense unless you're going to overclock you can't have a lot of fun with this i mean i don't think it would be unfair to say that this is one of the most fun products that i have ever tested but i don't recommend for general consumption i mean it kind of makes sense though if you think about it if you're going to buy something like this which is a tremendous amount of fun i mean if you've got time to kill and you want to mess around with stuff like this this was a crazy amount of fun to play with but you know is this a thing i don't know the single most impressive thing about this is how stable it could keep the temperature of the cpu it was shockingly impressive basically if your cpu was mostly okay but occasionally you brush up against those like 95 degrees c you know temperature zones where you may be hurting your cpu this is really good about sort of taking the edge off those instances when you're doing overclocking so this is also kind of a product maybe for experienced overclockers because you don't necessarily know what you're looking for you don't necessarily know what you're getting into because by the time you spend on this cooler and the highest end motherboard and the highest end cpu and the highest end everything else you could have probably purchased an even more high-end system but the engineering the cooler master has done with this thing it really is incredible i mean this is going to go down in the history books as one of the best you know relatively compact um sub-ambient cooling systems that there is i mean there's uh the older systems which were you know like external like you had a you know a really heavy brick that sat outside your case and it would do sub ambient cooling and you know those sort of went down in the history books those were legendary i never got my hands on one of those but this they can have this back when they pry it for my cold dead hands because it really is a lot of fun to play with without getting into liquid nitrogen and some of the other stuff i mean i think i had the most fun with this on a 10-600 k so setting this up with the 10600k and trying to push it to like 5.8 gigahertz on like two cores that was a lot of fun i accidentally murdered that cpu but it was a lot of fun this is a product that has a five year warranty so cooler masters definitely got some confidence there now in case you're wondering does this come with am4 mounting hardware no no it does not there's no am4 mounting hardware what do you think it now of course now the one thing i was surprised about is there's also no 2011 mounting hardware 2011-3 it's right out i'm gonna try to cool the 10980xe with this no now this cooler really is now this cooler really is absolutely ridiculous it actually has a rubber seal a gasket to go around the motherboard why would it have that well sub-admin cooling condensation may be a real worry now it tries to monitor the temperature to try to prevent condensation but you know there it is and that's part of the reason why it doesn't come with am4 or 2011 mounting hardware is because you would need technically a little bit of a different bracket here and the way that the copper is machined or the 2011 contact area on those larger cpus is a little bigger so this is definitely designed for those really hot running 14 nanometer cpus i mean this is basically designed for the 14 nanometer process which is you know here to stay for you know current 10th gen 11th gen maybe even 12th gen it's the direction we're headed also how cool is it that the cold plate requires a 12 volt pcie power connection goodness gracious me so for our test system that we're using we're using the asrock z490 tai chi why well let's get these killer fans on the vrm it's also got a pretty solid vrm implementation so we can dump hundreds of watts into our plucky little intel 10900k at retail 10900k this is a nice cpu this is a good setup this is a good board for it it's kudos all around installation in our fractal case here not really a big deal pretty straightforward one really clever thing that cooler master has done is the screws for the fans are actually threaded so these are thumb screws that hold the fans to the radiator but then you can put a set of screws inside the thumb screws in this way you can actually mount the pump to the fan and still have it secured you know the fan secured to the radiator so that works really well although in the fractal case i probably flip the fans around the other way so that their intake rather than exhaust but these are also really high static pressure fans you can definitely hear the pump running you can definitely see that cold plate running you got to run that pcie power it's a little weird in this case i think if i would do this over and try to cable manage this i would bring that pcie power cable for the cold plate up and over and behind the motherboard i think that would probably work out well for this particular build now the initial setup of course you just get this weird little red light on the cold plate and it doesn't seem like the cold plate's working from looking at the info in hardware 64. what you have to do you've got to download some drivers you need to download the cooler master software and install it on windows to really have things take off and be able to get more fine grained control and understand what's up with the cold plate the pump temperatures and how hard you want it to work now as cooler master says on their own website you know the temperature difference here is really under light load is when it will really bring the temperature down but i think that that's a little misleading because you know if your cpu is running at 100 watts or less it's basically idling and yeah it's going to be at 16 degrees c but it's idling that doesn't really you know i mean i guess that's good but that's not really a thing but you know as you can see when it gets under full load basically it's equivalent to a 360 millimeter all in one but again where i think this thing really shines is when you're running like two cores maybe four cores at a really ridiculously high clock speed because you can use it to dial in even more stability this is really only good for doing benchmarks and getting you know straight to the top of the leaderboard it's our test system here with the asrock z490 we've also got our founders rtx 3090 beastly 3090 and this is the setup that we use for all of our testing and confirmation once you've got the cooler master software installed and you've got it doing what it should do then you can run the intel xtu software now the intel xtu software definitely supports that asrock z490 motherboard right out of the box and it's going to dial in whatever frequency it can get stable and wow it really is stable now pro tip when you're running xtu turn xmp off i don't know why but you can turn xmp off and get a better clock running xtu then you want to turn xmp back on after it's done and you should be pretty stable now let's talk for a second about price i kind of alluded to this but this is an expensive piece of kit if you want to do sub ambient and you're going to spend this much money you could do a custom loop that has some sub ambient components externally but you'll be spending a few hundred more dollars although maybe it's worth it or maybe it's not worth it i don't know this is a lot of fun to play with this is definitely uh for a particular kind of customer this is definitely not a general recommendation because you're spending as much on the cooling as you have on your cpu maybe more so you know keep that in mind this is a lot of fun to play with and uh it's one of those toys where you guys are welcome to come over to my house and play with this together and we'll enjoy it together you don't need to own it you can just watch me play with it and get just as much enjoyment out of it unless you're gonna go against me for those records on like fire strike and uh you know the 3d mark benchmarks in which case i'm coming for you another kind of weird thing that i'll point out that's sort of washed out in testing is you need this link on this sheet of paper to download the software if you just go to cooler master's website and download master plus which is what i initially expected to do you know being familiar with cooler masters products but you're quite good no you need this and you're going to be downloading something called the intel cryo software it's from cooler master i mean cooler master they've really know what they're doing so i didn't think it was a bit weird that i can't use master plus i need the intel cryo utilities so it goes with that whole intel theme this is pretty much for lga 1200 and beyond because well 14 nanometer it's here to stay that intel installer also kind of buggy in fact windows smart screen was like hey i don't recognize this you probably shouldn't run it which is kind of funny because it's actually from intel and it also bombed out the first time because it said that i didn't plug in the usb cable when in fact device manager shows i did plug in the usb cable it just doesn't have a driver because windows update hadn't downloaded the driver for it yet i feel like this hasn't had a lot of quality control on the software side which is disappointing because cooler master has brought their a-game for the cooler hardware now you might be wondering how much power does this cooler consume with its active cooling uh upwards of 250 watts when you're figuring your power supply you know configuration figure an extra 250 watts just for the cooler one cool thing about this that it has built in is a dew point that's aware of the dew point so it doesn't make it so cold that it's going to condensate of course you can run it in unregulated mode which will give you maximum cooling but there is a chance of condensation and condensation will short things out and there's no warranty and blah blah blah so definitely don't do unregulated mode unless you really really know what you're doing but that's why it has the rubber seal but you can still get condensation on the back of the motherboard depending especially when the cpu is not idle but still for adding only 0.12 volts to our 10 900k here and being able to achieve 5.4 gigahertz and being able to do gaming and get a little bit of a performance bump i mean i don't think anybody's buying a 30 90 to do 1080p gaming with shadow of the tomb raider but if you are you can get quite a nice performance bump in shadow of the tomb raider at that you know 1080p frame rate because you're lowering the round trip time and you can boost your frame rate by just a little bit but like i say this is for benchmarking and just getting some pretty numbers on a graph not you know well you could do it everyday usage but i mean that's a really expensive cooler to use for everyday usage but man this is a lot of fun now one really disappointing thing is the intel performance maximizer is completely not compatible with this the intel performance maximizer reboots your machine and for whatever reason intel didn't include that functionality in their software so when the cryo software is not running in windows the cryo thing is not operational you have to be running the software in windows in order for the cryo thing to do its thing so linux i mean you can actually run the software under linux because it's just a usb device but i don't really want to get into that because it doesn't work like you think it does but you could theoretically do it because it's a usb device but let's not talk about that but that's another nail in the coffin in using this cooler on another platform like say x299 or something else it's really just designed for the 10th and 11th gen processors and i know 11th gen's not here yet at least at the time that i'm shooting this video it's right around the corner and this might be super handy for it because i never would have thought i could get 5.4 or 5.5 on my 10 900k that's a retail chip it's retail it's better than my intel also sent a sample and played around with the intel sample this is better than the sample this is also a really recent 10900k so hey maybe the process is improving now i gotta say after tweaking and tuning and taking the reins off this is much more insane than i really expected okay so we're working with the tai chi and you gotta kind of take the reins off the tai chi a little bit it's actually got some safeties to try to prevent you from melting your processor so once i'm able to full oc mode so i can dump you know 350 watts let's say into this 10900k this cryogenic cooler really showed its stuff i mean it was over 200 watts 250 watts at times but the dividends it paid off 5.6 gigahertz on up to two cores all the way down to 5.3 gigahertz all core although that 5.3 gigahertz all-core i don't know that it could sustain that for long periods of time but for running benchmarks and even longer gaming sessions that have those burst speeds up to 5.6 gigahertz this could do it i left it in the loop of you know the tomb raider built-in benchmark just running over and over again i left it overnight because i was like surely this is not going to last overnight and it did it lasted overnight it was at least stable enough overnight it's not a perfectly stable system at that speed doing literally anything but it did last long enough and i probably shouldn't call it shirley but i think that's its new name shirley the little processor that could and the rest of our setup other than you know the azeroth tai chi motherboard and 10 900k our memory certainly helps it's ddr4 4000. this is actually from crucial it's a crucial ballistics i'm gonna be including that in another video kind of a head-to-head shootout you know fast memory it's clocked fast but the timings are kind of loose like timings versus the other stuff how much of a difference does that make there's kind of a lot to that that's the story for another day but i've actually i'm kind of embarrassed to admit how much fun i've had with this because is this a system and i can get real work done on no not at all but this is also the only system that i've ever seen that is you know stable at more than 5.3 gigahertz for uh you know until you run out of liquid nitrogen you know the tech in here the uh that's a pun because it's tec thermoelectric cooler i see what i did is actually really impressive cooler master has done an exceptional job putting this hardware together there's other little annoyances with the intel software too other than the ones that i've already mentioned like if you have cryo mode turned on and you need to reboot well it'll remember the overclocking intel extreme tuning utility but it doesn't necessarily reapply cryo mode until the software loads that's incredibly dumb the software should have a feature where it's like just running cryo mode all the time i mean i know the whole dew point thing and maybe that's a concern maybe don't drop it down to like 16 degrees c just drop it down to like 45 degrees c when you're in the i don't know the software is rebooting i don't know what's going on because you can totally have a stable safe overclock but then sometimes it'll just shut off because it's not completely perfectly 100 stable but it's pretty darn good now geekbench on 10 cores a little fiddling 1477 1484. close to 1500 if i push the memory clocks a little bit it's all down to the memory side of things now to tune for stability which is one of the reasons why i recommend disabling xmp before you dial it in because you could actually be facing a memory instability not a cpu instability so you don't want to dump extra voltage into your cpu just then heat you got to get rid of when it's not a problem with your cpu it can be a lot of fun to play with this stuff it can also be a black hole of time a distraction from actually having a working computer but it is a lot of fun ultimately it's up to you do you want something that you can kind of fiddle around with sub ambient cooling it's a toy it's something that is to be experimented with i don't know that it's for everyday use it's also a little louder than you would get with a normal 360 aio you can definitely hear the the pump motor going it's a high velocity operation it seems but like i say this was a surprising amount of fun i had a lot more enjoyment out of messing with all this and turning all the knobs and i really thought that i would and trying to get higher and higher and higher geekbench scores on this platform i wonder if tech cooling is going to be the future or if you know things like arm are going to take over the world because you know impressive things are possible in five watts apparently but 250 watts for the cooler 250 watts for the cpu 500 watts for the gpu we're starting to have problems fitting in the north american electrical code for a single electrical outlet at that point right on my list level one this has been a quick look at all that i had a lot of fun with this join me in the forums at level one if you have one of these setups or you're messing around with this kind of stuff i'd love to hear from you i'm signing out and i'll see you there\n"