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Funny, Techspot got it to 4.7 GHZ

I think that Tom's Hardware article was a little alarmist. Granted Techspot had to use a pretty high end cooler but it worked out fine.

Previously, I was only able to stabilize the 7900X at 4.6GHz, but with the upgraded cooler I managed 4.7GHz and 4.8 even looked to be possible with a bit more voltage tuning. At 4.7GHz the CPU spiked to 60 degrees as soon as it was placed under load -- much better than the 87 degrees seen before.

https://www.techspot.com/review/1437-overclocking-core-i9/