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Asus OC Socket - new 2011 socket for OCing!

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http://wccftech.com/asus-oc-socket-examined-lga-2011/

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Let’s take a closer look at what exactly ASUS has accomplished. Haswell uses an FIVR (Fully Integrated Voltage Regulator) and as the new processor architectures have appeared, Intel has become more and more secretive about the workings of the pinouts. Not knowing where the voltage lines lay, ASUS basically bruteforced the entire contact points present on 2011 processors to figure out where the new pins should touch to grant unhindered access to voltage. The result? ASUS OC Socket lets you effectively bypass any FIVR compulsions Intel has in place. This means that you will be able to achieve higher and more stable overclocks probably at a lower voltage. I have a feeling ASUS might be a trend setter with this and seeing they already have a patent pending, might earn big bucks from it too.
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Would love to hear what 8Pack thinks of this! :D :cool:
 
Looks interesting. Is this on all their x99 mobs? Though does make one wonder why intel put them on there in the first place?
 
We appreciate that such moderate voltage is unlikely to tap into the benefits of the OC Socket, which Asus admits freely only comes into play once the VCore is ratcheted up to 1.6V-plus.
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So only useful to those overclocking CPUs someone else is paying for :)
 
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Hades said:
Does this remind anyone else of the old Golden Fingers overclocking?
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and I thought I was the only one old enough to remember that. Oh, the fear of taking a big screwdriver to your expensive CPU and hearing the almighty crack as the cover came off :)
 
Not tested same CPU in boards with and without the socket so I am not sure of percentage improvement.

What I do know is the RVE is a great board in terms of both overclocking and efficiency.

I need to do a like for like to ascertain if OC socket makes a difference. But it may not just be OC socket that is helping it may be bios or other hardware too.

ASUS have devoted R and D team of true great Overclockers which I am sure what drove this innovative idea.
 
And apparently Intel say this new socket is out of spec with the platform and thus not supported by them, so any CPUs that break on an Asus board won't be covered by warranty.
 
I don't see how they can "by pass" the FIVRs.

They are part of the chip, voltage goes into them, voltage comes out and into the core.
 
I had AMD Baron Mobiles so did not need cut anything, drop 1 wire or 2 in the socket holes and unlocked higher multipliers (locks out all lower ones though).

2.8GHZ on a XPM2600 when the top AMD CPU was a 2.2GHZ XP3200.

Also did it the other way with a 550mhz FSB and lower multiplier which was 2.7XGHZ with some Corsair Ram 1:1 Ratio on Asus top NF2 Mobo but had to do mod to get more VTT Voltage as unlike Abit/DFI it did not have ability to adjust.
 
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The contacts allow to better overclock Intel’s Core i7-5800-/5900-series “Haswell-E” microprocessors, but Intel claims that usage of such sockets voids warranty. Asus argues that the warranty should not be voide

Intel aren't happy because the cpu will overheat if it's adjusted to run at 2.1 to 2.2 volts, that's one hell of a voltage increase
 
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jh30uk said:
Unless its doubling the pins to certain pads (so to carry more current) then I do not know WTF it can do.
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Asus will have the pin outs of 2011-3. They need them when creating motherboards, their designers would use them to create the connecting tracks.

Obviously they've noticed a load of pins that Intel used during creation of X99 but then decided not to use. IE - a way of stopping people overclocking their CPUs too hard if you will. Nvidia have done similar things but they've been easily gotten around using a custom bios.

Last year I had a board with two damaged pins in it (X58). I wanted to know exactly what all of the pins did so I found some schematics. It was actually really interesting sitting down and mapping all of the pads using coloured dots. Turned out I'd damaged a VDDC pin so my board was toast, but it was very interesting. Amazing to see just how many pins do absolutely nothing tbh.

Asus should be commended here. I love seeing stuff like this, pure geek pron :D
 
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