Thread by @d0cTB

Follow up. We decided to reject this entry from the CPU-Z Validator due to the extremely high probability of a bugged report. ⤵️

https://twitter.com/d0cTB/status/1456253859228045314

1/ Despite several requests over the past weeks, we never received any evidence that the CPU really reached 8 GHz. No other overclocker has been able to approach that frequency so far and the original submitter confirmed he's not able to reproduce this anymore.

2/ We are now aware of a method that can be used to exploit a hardware errata on Alder Lake CPUs, despite the microcode fix added by Intel. It involves low-level control of the boot process. We're testing a new internal CPU-Z revision able to detect that trick.

3/ A very similar case occurred for the launch of the Ryzen 9 5950X, involving the same players. Until earlier today, many OC website reported a 6362.16 MHz World Record for this CPU.
➡️ web.archive.org/web/2021110417…

Using the new analysis algorithm on that old CPU-Z submission datas, we can now confirm that the real actual clock was 5683.94 MHz. That dump was already manually rejected soon after submission due a known exploit on AMD Vermeer CPUs at launch.

Every CPU-Z Validations contains a lot of internal CPU configuration registers actually unknown and/or unchecked. We're working for a way to distinguish the bugged ones and we will reprocess all ADL records if we find one.