Haswell Gaming Bundle Question

BigBANGtheory · 4 Jun 2013 at 14:35

For the "Quasar 265i" Intel Core i7 4770K @ 4.6GHz Overclocked Haswell Gaming PC Bundle...

Can you please indicate what CPU core voltage you are using to achieve this OC so I can gauge the heat being generated and be confident of stability under load?

Jay Blizzay · 5 Jun 2013 at 20:35

You might get a response if u post in customer service forum mate

djg92 · 5 Jun 2013 at 21:27

This is also pretty interesting to me as I'm considering one of the Haswell bundles, although the i5 @ 4.4Ghz one. Am I guaranteed a certain temperature level, or is it dependant upon the individual cpu?

BigBANGtheory · 6 Jun 2013 at 08:11

Jay Blizzay said:
You might get a response if u post in customer service forum mate

Ok thanks for the advice, when I can an answer I'll report back.

Sweeney · 6 Jun 2013 at 10:51

Was actually going to ask the same as not sure whether to go for Haswell or an Ivybridge bundle.
Looking forward to the response.

TwsT · 6 Jun 2013 at 14:02

djg92 said:
This is also pretty interesting to me as I'm considering one of the Haswell bundles, although the i5 @ 4.4Ghz one. Am I guaranteed a certain temperature level, or is it dependant upon the individual cpu?

dependant on cpu sadly as we can't say for sure what the vcore will be until we do it.

With a mount doom cooler haswell is a bit hotter than Ivy at similar clocks. Sadly I've not had enough chances to play with haswell yet so I can't give you any definitive values.

djg92 · 6 Jun 2013 at 15:41

TwsT said:
dependant on cpu sadly as we can't say for sure what the vcore will be until we do it.

With a mount doom cooler haswell is a bit hotter than Ivy at similar clocks. Sadly I've not had enough chances to play with haswell yet so I can't give you any definitive values.

Do you know if there is a specific limit of volts or temps that the bundles are kept under?

TwsT · 7 Jun 2013 at 11:18

We won't ship a Haswell system /bundle if it's hitting 85 + degrees C under 100% load.

Unlike Ivy-bridge voltage and core speed affect temperature where we found only core speed really affected temperature with Ivy-bridge.

The environment we test in is usually around 25 degrees so it's hotter than your average house. (right now it's a very humid 28 i think feels very warm!)

We aim to keep voltages below 1.35 as we may need some headroom to adjust overclocks when then get to the customers end. (dirty power power quality home electrics etc)

For an example we have managed 4.6 at 1.26 and 1.32v same board same ram just a different chip.

djg92 · 7 Jun 2013 at 13:00

Okay thanks