October Upgrade - Spec me - ~£1500

Well its alive! All done except HDD/SSD swap over.

Doesn't look like I'm going to be hitting 5ghz without delidding which is pretty annoying, although my overclocking ability is way out of date so I'll probably be posting in the overclocking forum soon.

I assume this is happening due to one core not getting enough power, system doesn't crash, but that core is always the one that the test stops for.
Also, TMPIN4 is always super toasty, but theres no reference to what it is in the mobo manual :confused:

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Most likely VRM , should be safe up to 125c but normally 105c would cause you to look into things

You at 4.9ghz ? As that's still awesome with 6 cores and 22 threads ! :) And it's just a kabylake with extra cores really :)

I ran 1.44v on my Delid 7700k just to get 5Ghz lol
 
22 threads? that would be something! Thanks for that info, might contact gigabyte to check, dont want the mobo melting. Do we have an active gigabyte rep on the forum?

Not sure about what to do for the overclock final settings right now, still tinkering around with it. Testing with MT off and think I can get 5ghz under 85c - might offer better performance than MT at a lower multiplier for gaming.
Also letting the core hit 90's probably isnt a good idea, though I never see anything else getting so much heat as prime95, so I'd guess its fine for day to day use


Edit, 10 mins of prime at 5ghz averaged 84c but peaked at 85c - close enough for me
 
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Fanaticjam said:
22 threads? that would be something! Thanks for that info, might contact gigabyte to check, dont want the mobo melting. Do we have an active gigabyte rep on the forum?

Not sure about what to do for the overclock final settings right now, still tinkering around with it. Testing with MT off and think I can get 5ghz under 85c - might offer better performance than MT at a lower multiplier for gaming.
Also letting the core hit 90's probably isnt a good idea, though I never see anything else getting so much heat as prime95, so I'd guess its fine for day to day use


Edit, 10 mins of prime at 5ghz averaged 84c but peaked at 85c - close enough for me
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Believe Mobo rep is Giga-man

Looking good mate , now to oc the ram !!!!
 
Fanaticjam said:
Doesn't look like I'm going to be hitting 5ghz without delidding which is pretty annoying
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The annoying is not the must do delidding the action itself, you must do it in all cases!\
The annoying part is that no one can force Intel to reconsider their super stupid bad practice of using chewing gum, instead of proper soldering robots :D
 
4K8KW10 said:
The annoying is not the must do delidding the action itself, you must do it in all cases!\
The annoying part is that no one can force Intel to reconsider their super stupid bad practice of using chewing gum, instead of proper soldering robots :D
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I'm guessing 9700K will just be a 8700K with proper soldering, good ol intel
 
Fanaticjam said:
I'm guessing 9700K will just be a 8700K with proper soldering, good ol intel
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8700K is 14nm++ and 6 cores / 12 threads;
We expect 9700K to be 10nm and 8 cores / 16 threads.

Because of the newer manufacturing process and power saving coming from smaller transistors, Intel won't have the initiative to say goodbye to the money grabbing scheme of avoiding soldering.
 
Fanaticjam said:
Probably do that after the GPU, never oc'd ram before!

5.1ghz 5 mins of prime hit 95c. Didn't want to keep it running that hot so capped it at 5mins
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For real work, run Asus Real Bench test in a loop and it's stress test .
Then for gaming, run Intel's Xtreme tuning stress test along with Unigine :)

I love benchmarks , but realworks or more realistic . I do run them for 48 hours on workstation -ish builds though
 
orbitalwalsh said:
In theory, you'll stay under those temps when gaming - with games very heavy on CPU side
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Yeah, been keeping an eye on it and temps are generally fine, also gpu rarely goes over 50

I'm wondering if I should even bother with prime, seems like since no real world application, or any other stress test can get near prime temps then it's somewhat pointless making sure the PC can be stable while running prime?

I think I can get 5.1ghz stable if I exclude prime from stresstesting.

Also wondering if I can use the CPU boost to boost 1 or 2 cores higher for games not using more than 1 or 2 cores?
 
Fanaticjam said:
Yeah, been keeping an eye on it and temps are generally fine, also gpu rarely goes over 50

I'm wondering if I should even bother with prime, seems like since no real world application, or any other stress test can get near prime temps then it's somewhat pointless making sure the PC can be stable while running prime?

I think I can get 5.1ghz stable if I exclude prime from stresstesting.

Also wondering if I can use the CPU boost to boost 1 or 2 cores higher for games not using more than 1 or 2 cores?
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blast 10 mins - if it survives and heat is ok - then done ! :D

then work that ram!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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