They will all say that. It's the standard bin. But within that bin some will run 1.30 no issues. Just test.
8 Pack is asleep on the job, never must have had a heavy night.
Quick (probably noob) question, if I went for one of these chips, what is the degradation like on the liquid metal inside?
I'm hoping the answer is I would never need to ever open the CPU up again, clean and reapply at some point in the future
I checked afew of these myself and all was fine.
I will get them all checked now for consistency.
The product did perform exactly as expected though.
I checked afew of these myself and all was fine.
I will get them all checked now for consistency.
The product did perform exactly as expected though.
OcUK delid: 81-85 on XTU stress @ 5Ghz 1.35 vcore
My delid: 59-61 on XTU stress @ 5Ghz 1.35 vcore.
I wasn't expecting such a huge difference, but there you go. Very disappointed in OCUK this time around.#
On reflection I should have taken some more pictures, but I didn't... those that I did = http://imgur.com/a/7MhP3
This is the reason, I will NOT buy it. OCUK should have re-checked everything before sold to the customers, it all hit and a miss!
Yeah but nowhere does it state you will actually get a drop in core temps with the delid. Yeah it's implied but that isn't actually the same. It would have been done and then binned and checked that it hits 5GHz and then packaged probably with no comment on the temps.
They may well see a large variation in temps because of this process and as long as it does what it states with the clock speed then they have done their job.
Yes it isn't right in that because it has been delidded etc then we should expect but unless they place a comment in the sales pitch of a guaranteed speed it really is just a bonus.
The binning was done before delid. All chips binned by me. Then technical team delided the CPU's and re-glued. I tested 5 at random after this.
All where completely fine as far as delid quality goes and running 5g at 1.35v or less.
Remember some chips are higher leakage.
I did a test today showing before and after delid temps on the same chip which I completed myself. Will post the results tomorrow as I left SSD at work.
Yeah but nowhere does it state you will actually get a drop in core temps with the delid. Yeah it's implied but that isn't actually the same. It would have been done and then binned and checked that it hits 5GHz and then packaged probably with no comment on the temps.
Oh really I thought it would have been binned after and then you could just sell the ones that don't cut it as Re-lidded as a middle ground product between stock and the 5GHz.
Cheers for the info though.
Look forward to seeing the results that you have from yesterdays tests. Just be good to see the averages if nothing else so it keeps peoples expectations and realisation that as you say there is some higher leakage in certain chips.
That sounds like an answer from a politician.
It seems a delid wasn't properly carried out, and therefore temperatures were higher than the delid process should produce.
For the price premium (~£100), it should be cost effective (and common sense) to test each CPU after the delid process has taken place. It would take no more than about 10 minutes to pop a CPU into a test rig, fully load it and check that it hits it's target speed and that temps are decent.
As Ian has said, some chips will be higher leakage, and binning takes time. You want to be focusing on finding samples that will do 5Ghz within a certain voltage. That way also the customer benefits. This is because post de-lid, the CPU will likely require a certain degree less voltage due to reduced temps, meaning 5.1, or potentially even 5.2 may be possible depending on how thermally limited you are and how good the silicon is on your sample.