DOOM Eternal reaches 1,000 FPS on PC cooled by liquid nitrogen

A team of hardware and overlocking specialists successfully managed to create a custom PC that could run DOOM Eternal at 1,000 FPS as part of projection for QuakeCon at Home.

Bethesda's Polish customs manager Lukasz Lesniewski challenged Polish hardware retailer x-kom to bear witness off the power and versatility of id Software's id Tech 7 game engine by figuring out a way to attain the record-breaking framerate. X-kom's caput of R&D Marcin Rywak and tech blogger Piotr Szymanski put together a platform using Intel's viii-core i7 9700K processor, an ASUS Maximus XI APEX motherboard, Samsung'due south 512GB M.2 drive, and power from Exist Quiet 1200W Straight Power.

That device was able to push the game to 500-600 FPS, but hitting the goal required using liquid nitrogen in order to overclock the PC without information technology overheating. Using the custom cooling system, the team was able to get all eight cores running at nearly six.6GHz and achieve 1,006 FPS in the opening corridor of DOOM Eternal's "Hell on Earth" level.

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DOOM Eternal had its work cutting out for it later DOOM 2022 shocked the gaming world with its incredible visuals and combat, and it delivered on every promise. If you're looking for a sandbox in which everything is trying to kill you and yous're, well, killing everything instead, DOOM Eternal is the game for you.

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