A 13-Year-Old Intel Chip Just Set a New Record

A 2013 quad-core just topped a leaderboard, and the story says a lot about hardware longevity. Overclocker Luumi set a new HWBot Cinebench R11.5 record for the Intel Core i5-4670K, scoring 10.8 cb at 6,301 MHz under liquid nitrogen. The margin over the previous 10.76 cb record is razor thin, and the top of the rankings is tight, with third place at 10.74 cb across 187 submissions.

The result is a category record, not an overall world record, so it's worth reading carefully. What stands out to me is the testing environment. The run used period-correct components and Windows 7, because HWBot's rules restrict pre-Skylake Intel chips on newer Windows versions without BenchMate. Benchmark rules shape what results count, and that matters for anyone comparing performance data.