The weird computer nerds are at it again, this time eclipsing a 12-year high mark for the PC hardware benchmarking tool Cinebench. Rather than using the latest and greatest, this is breaking a record for the Intel Core i5 4670K, which launched in 2013 and was fully end-of-life in 2021, receiving no more updates. With help from a healthy amount of liquid nitrogen to keep the chip cool as it was pushed past its limits, the new high score eked past the 12-year-old record by 0.04 points.

Set by Finnish HWBot user Luumi , this new overclock allowed the now-ancient CPU to hit a score of 10.8 cb. Of course, the processor was released at the tail end of DDR3 being the main type of RAM. So this benchmarking used 4 GB of DDR3 RAM spread across a dual-channel setup (two 2 GB sticks), and as mentioned, a lot of liquid nitrogen. Looking at the setup of the bare motherboard crowned with a container-like contraption to pour that liquid nitrogen safely, it's quite a sight.…