Did I not hear there is a competition attached to this from EK about painted cases though?
If you win........
Photo for the Corsair link im using.
I have finished a quick
[email protected] OC for a rough idea of what this chip will be like and to get an idea of the cooling potential of the setup,I had some initial concerns about flow rate and the low rad space.
That said,I am getting half decent results,nothing HWBot but I wasnt expecting that due to the much reduced flow to the CPU block.
Stress testing was done via x264 initially,it gives a good baseline before proceeding with more...athletic ....testing.
Ambient: 20c
58c on the hottest core,averages of around 49c
20 passes of that and we moved on to OCCT,not Linpack or P95 as I dont need that kind of furnace testing.
Temps went up but not terribly tho,hitting 74c on the hottest core,66 being the average.
For a fully parallel setup and restricted rad space,this is pretty good! I can see another D5 or dual 10w DDC going in along with a EK XE 360 for good measure.