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It is possible, but it all depends on silicon quality and cooling capacity. Ambient temperature also plays a big part.
With the room temperature at 20°C my 8700K can run benchmarks at 5.2GHz 1.415V without any issues, but with any higher room temps I get WHEA errors.
Here are screenshots of the 5.2GHz OC I did this morning with the room temperature at 25°C. I chilled the radiator with ice water and lowered the Vcore to 1.380V. No WHEA errors.
So the Corrected Machine Check WHEA's are usually too little voltage? Looks like I need to bump up a little.
Interesting new function(I think it's new as I never noticed it before) in CPU-Z.
If you run the Benchmark v.17.01.64, you can submit and compare now.
Mine with 5.3GHz(click score at bottom left to see comparison): Intel Core i9 @ 5298.73 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR
I got top score for single thread: CPU-Z Benchmark for Intel Core i9-9900K (1T) - CPU-Z VALIDATOR
And not bad for 16+ multi threaded(until more users post their results anyhow): CPU-Z Benchmark for Intel Core i9-9900K (16T) - CPU-Z VALIDATOR