Snowman89 overclocks Core i3 530 to 5.5GHz

Emil “Snowman89” Wadell proved himself to be a quality overclocker when he finished fifth in this year’s edition of the Swedish Computer Performance Championship. Emil who is going to be appearing more and more here at NordicHardware have been playing around with Core i3. Emil has posted a number of overclocking results with Intel’s 32 nanometer Core i3 530 processor with both air and phase change coolers for some world class results.

In his first tests Emil relied on the forces of nature and Thermalright’s new performance cooler Venomous X he managed to hit an impressive CPU clock frequency of 4886MHz, and he did it with low RPM fans.

He then moved on to more exotic cooling to force Intel Core i3 530 to higher frequencies with his custom phase change cooler. After some tweaking Emil hit 5.5GHz, which is the fifth highest overclock with this CPU, and he’s still to use liquid nitrogen.

The CPU was stable enough to complete a round of wPrime 32m, in just 9.547 seconds which puts him third 3rd overall in the world for Core i3 530 processors.