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by wutwutwat 813 days ago
Weirdest headline ever. Why tell us what it almost achieved? It broke a world record, right? Well, what is that record then? Why tf is a number it didn’t hit being mentioned at all?
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bheadmaster 813 days ago
The first paragraph says:

    The overclocking team from Asus has achieved a new CPU frequency world record with Intel's brand-new Raptor Lake Refresh Core i9-14900KF. The team was able to achieve a very impressive 9043.92GHz on a single P-core with liquid helium, breaking the previous world record by 35.1MHz.
Perhaps the editor thought that "almost 9.1GHz" sounds better than "over 9GHz". I disagree with both - the best would be "over 9000 MHz" [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik

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wutwutwat 813 days ago
> Core I9 14900KF Breaks World Record, Achieves 9043.92GHz

Boom, honest, direct reporting.

It’s really not hard to do, it takes more energy to think up the clickbait than to just tell the facts.

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