Time to reveal what was inside the well traveled package!
After a fast airline blast Chocolate Box was looking quite neat again, just a little dusting and disassembly needed
Removing everything is pretty simple, luckily the standoffs can't fall out of the back and the loop doesn't get in the way at all.
Obviously it couldn't be just 'a' 7700k, can't leave anything to chance with such an awesome Titan XP and b-die. They were getting impossible to find in Europe but still some good silicon out in Texas!
As always a nice clean for the L12 which is the oldest PC components i'm still using regularly.
Still love the fitment, flush with the EK heatspreaders and tight to the GPU. The only thing I don't love is attempting to plug the fan in around the heatpipes and the EPS cable.
Complete once again, time to test!
So to revisit the last benchmarks the i7-6700k was running 4.9GHz on air in the Stinger achieving a physics score of 15860.
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The i7-7700k is consistently clearing 17000 at a clock speed of 5.3GHz with 5.0GHz cache and 4000MHz memory, so an improvement of ~8% for physics and a distinct bump in combined score. Somewhere along the way i've lost 4fps on GT's, hopefully I can get the card running that well again and get on the high side of 25k! Lots of other benchmarks to try too, i'm sure this setup will shred Valley.
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Temperatures are firmly in the 80°C's to run that frequency under load however it's proving to be solid for repeated Heaven passes, definitely not something I will run every day but awesome that it's possible with such a small heatsink.
And of course still looking as handsome as ever!
JR
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