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Delidded the 7960X - just a little difference ( -9 to -14 degrees )
- Thread starter Pooh
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So ... where do you get the full copper one from ?
thanks
not sure but for the sakes of £35 it's a bit of fun, let's see what happens....
It's arrived, not the quickest of deliveries.
Need to find a bit of time to fit the thing now.
Fitted it tonight, if anything the temps are a bit worse. Hey Ho. I'll pop the original back on tomorrow.
Nothing ventured.....
Hi matePooh, could you expand a bit on your post with info on room temps, cooler / block used, paste etc please ?
Cheers
I'll do my best
Room temp was the same as pre swapping the Intel IHS for the copper one. Don't know what the actual temp was, quite warm, but it was a constant.
All other factors the same, paste, liquid metal IHS to the die and Arctic Silver 5 IHS to the waterblock which is a nickel one ( can't remember the model )
The biggest issue I had was that despite resetting the new IHS twice I could not get core 15 covered properly and it was scaling up to 100C when I ran Cinebench with all the cores set to 4.1. Looks like there was an issue with the milling of the copper IHS or something.
I took the copper one off and put the standard IHS back on after a good clean up of all the pastes and liquid metal, so pretty much a fresh start.
I made one change this time and used liquid metal between the IHS and the waterblock ( very carefully I hasten to add ) so it's now got liquid metal all the way through the interfaces.
Have to say it's now looking very good.
As a first pass I whacked the multiplier to 44 across all cores and left everything else unchanged and the temps were good. Room ambient is 29C so a bit warm.
Next job is to start per core overclocking which is a laborious pain in the ass task but the best way to squeeze the CPU to it's best performance while maintaining a decent thermal profile.
Not sure as I've had it for a few years and can't remember the name.
Stop using it for encoding and you'll be able to ramp it higher(Jesting, obviously).
My 7940X would do 4.8 @ 1.23v undelidded non AVX
Sounds like a sweet chip. Not sure mine is quite at the level.
Think I'm pretty much done now.
Running at 4.6 across all cores with manageable volts and temps. I found out the AVX offsets in the bios were a bit too small so was resulting in crazy volts & temps to get it stable. Bumped them up a couple of clicks, dropped down the CPU voltage offset to +0.010 and everyone seems to be happy.
Running at 4.6 across all cores with manageable volts and temps. I found out the AVX offsets in the bios were a bit too small so was resulting in crazy volts & temps to get it stable. Bumped them up a couple of clicks, dropped down the CPU voltage offset to +0.010 and everyone seems to be happy.
I've lapped processor dies in the past. No real need to do it in this one. I'm happy with the current performance. Can't be a***d pulling the rig apart again.
