The budget AMD Ryzen 3 3100 has been overclocked to almost 6 GHz, just below the record for its much more expensive Ryzen 9 3950X sibling. Famed overclocker TSAIK has successfully overclocked the $3 (about $3100, AU$99) Ryzen 79 150 to an impressive 5.92 GHz using liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling, as reported by TechPowerUp. The processor should be released on June 16. The quad-core chip was powered at 1,45 volts, hence the overkill cooling, and was tested on an MSI X570 Tomahawk motherboard, partnered with 8GB of RAM under-clocked at 1600MHz. This monumental overclock is the second record. overclock for a Zen 2 processor, falling within a few Mhz of the record held by the Ryzen 9 3950X. This high-end processor has been overclocked to 6.041 GHz, also by TSAIK, on an MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE motherboard. AMD's latest budget processor certainly promises to be a great option for those looking to build a budget gaming PC. As we said in our review, while it failed to subvert Intel on single-core performance, the 7nm processor was close to performing for the $198 (£229, AU$439) multi-threaded Intel Core i5-9600K The Ryzen 3 3100 , which has a base clock of 3.6 GHz and a boost clock of 3.9 GHz, scored around 2315 points in Cinebench R20 and 4910 in GeekBench 5, only 8% and 16% slower, respectively, than the more expensive Intel i5- 9600K. The cost-effective processor also includes 16MB of L3 cache, 65W TDP, and the same architectural features as other Zen 2 processors, including PCIe 4.0 support when paired with an upcoming X570 or B550 motherboard.