i7 7700k temp spikes. Is it a design flaw?

[somethingbrite]

Hi all.

Was about to pull the trigger on an i7 7700k for a new build then started finding threads about this Temperature spike issue. (and once you have found one suddenly you find many.)

Not had a chance to read all the way through all of them but working my way through the intel support forums now.

I have a few questions perhaps some of you may have info or an opinion on...

Are any of you i7 7700k users seeing this?

Is i7 7700k a flawed CPU?

Is the issue 100% negated by manual settings?
(I would be planning on a manual oc build anyway and annoying as knowing an element deep within the design is malfunctioning might be, if I don't ever see it I may not care so much)

Does this impact the 7600k too?

 

[somethingbrite]

It looks like the glue is bit thicker than it should not allowing for better contract between core and IHS.

However in this day, why you want to buy a 7700K? Is overpriced and doesn't provide anything extra over the AMD offerings.
On the contrary, for £50 LESS you buy a R7 1700

I hear ya. Am considering it too, would be nice to see the chipset/motherboard ecosystem mature a bit though. With the intel platform at least you know what you are getting because it's not cbanged much for a while.

 

[somethingbrite]

Without this breaking down into an argument about what intel said and what they did not I would be interested to hear if this issue still exists even with fully manual overclock settings rather than just some motherboard auto settings and also if it is just limited to the 7700k or impacts the 7600k also?

 

[somethingbrite]

Impacts all Kaby Lakes. Is the process is made. And ofc it affects everything, because if the IHS doesn't make perfect contact with the core, how you expect it to cool?

Not buying that. This issue be complicated by a poor cooling solution but that is not the cause. Things I've read so far indicate that this also occurs with delids. (However, I would be delidding anyway. - though not naked die cooling this time as my desire was to use a monoblock for this build to make simpler cooling tube lines in my build therefore I'll have less control over the direct CPU cooling...which of course means that rubbish spikes in cpu temps impact me more if my BIOS settings can't close that down.