To offset this monumentous occasion - somewhere, far, far away a small star, that’s fed several well populated planets for millions of years has been swallowed by a black hole that, coincidently, suddenly popped into existence at 11.11 (GMT) on the 27th August 2009.
Great news DavyBoy, when do you plan on force feeding it 4.2GHz+ settings?
LoL!!!
I only just noticed this post, you are a funny funny guy!
I'm going to wait until the weekend before I have a proper play around with my chip, I also want to test out the second one when it arrives to see which is the better one out of the two, as I will keep the best one for my machine obviously, and use the other one for my fiancees build, as she won't be clocking it or anything, although in saying that, I will more than likely play around with her rig just as much as my own one!!
From the small amount of time I have played around with this chip so far, I have to say I am extremely impressed with it, this is how these chips should be, the last one was clearly faulty, and I am hoping that OcUK send it off to Intel to have it tested by them to find out why the temps are so high.
I mean, it idled at 53c, whereas this one is idling at 34c, that is a huge difference imo, and definitely not right at all.
The chip either suffers from high leakage, or the IHS isn't properly soldered onto the CPU die.
It definitely wasn't due to a poor mount that the temps were so high, because I reseated the HSF loads of times, and I also tested the chip with 4 different coolers as well, and I got the same results every time.
@mothermachine, you won't get any difference in noise between the Noctua and TRUE, if you use good fans on it, there won't be any difference at all.
I have 1 Xigmatek fan on my TRUE it spins at 1500rpm, and it is dead silent, I can't hear it at all, the only thing I can hear in my rig is the fan on my GPU.
Even when I had both fans on my TRUE it was still extremely silent.
Do you think that they will swap the Noctua over for a TRUE instead?
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I just looked at their stock mate, and it appears that they don't have any TRUE's in stock atm, anyway, if I were you, I would ask them if they would swap it for the Megahalems, it is cheaper than the Noctua and it performs slightly better than a TRUE as well.. it was actually Thermaltake engineers that were responsible for the Megahalems, if I wasn't planning on going for custom WC, I would buy one that's for sure, I think they look fantastic, probably the best air cooler out there atm tbh..
But I have gotten a real urge to get this chip and my GPU under water, so that's what I am going to do, though it wont be for a while yet as I am short of cash atm.
