Overclockers Push DOOM Eternal past 1,000 Frames per Second

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Back in February, id Software’s lead engine programmer Billy Kahn claimed that DOOM Eternal could hit 1,000 frames per second with the right hardware. Apparently, he wasn’t kidding.



In a new blog post, Bethesda shared that x-kom Head of R&D Marcin “Ryba” Rywak and tech blogger Piotr “Lipton” Szymanski managed exceed 1,000 FPS in DOOM Eternal after two days of experimentation with an Intel Core i7-9700K and ASUS RTX 2080 Ti. The duo only hit 500 to 600 frames per second initially, but after pulling out the liquid nitrogen and pushing the processor’s eight cores to 6.6 GHz, high-frame-rate nirvana was...

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Great. Now we need 1000hz monitors.