**OcUK Extreme Haswell bundle - A review!**

Looks like you may have the pick of the bunch there.
Also purchased the 4.6G kit (L318B359) happily runs 4.6 at 1.305 volts under load but my temperatures are peaking at 72c almost 20 degrees more than yours!
Using the OCUK V8 watercooling kit 240 rad with the D5 XSPC reservoir, rad and pipes are barely warm.
Using Gigabyte Z87x OC I had an issue with the cpu retention clip in one place actually being higher than the cpu, noticed it when i tried to reseat the block and found witness marks of contact on the XSPC raystorm copper plate.
Bringing the good old credit card in to play and laying the edge across the cpu and sliding it around i could feel it making contact with the retention bracket in one area.

Piccie

After removing the clip and taking a very small file to it and removing the high points until no more contact was felt using the cc it lowered my cpu temps from 84 to 72c.
Cant help but wish i had your chip ! :D
 
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Get pushing it, im only noticing a temp change of around 6c on my hot core going from 4.6 1.3v to 5ghz 1.32v.

Getting pushed hard this weekend, x2 bios is going on, 1.4v core voltage and 1.9v dram voltage on both my kits :D

8pack has been awesome as usual even though he's had a busy yet fruitful week, memory aims are 3000 c12 on team group and 2400 c7/8 on ripjaws now thanks to some pointers from the man :)
 
GENE.

Just asking Parvum directly about the prospects of a custom S1.0 case for 120.3 mounting, that's why i've held off ordering. Otherwise going to copy Paul and get ATX with the OC.
 
you could have gone b85/h87 chipset if you wanted to scrimp

ram speed is limited to 1600mhz though

unless you cant pick those with the bundle,havnt checked
 
wazza300 said:
you could have gone b85/h87 chipset if you wanted to scrimp

ram speed is limited to 1600mhz though

unless you cant pick those with the bundle,havnt checked
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Who said anything about wanting to scrimp :confused:
I personally want to go mATX because i've had enough of my room being filled with huge cases, time to try something different and have the case mounted on the wall. As for the RAM, that's being ditched the second i get it for some TG 2600CL10 :p

Just need that extra rad space, because two 240s (30mm 30FPI) just wont be enough for a lower fan speed and overclocking headroom +780 cooling now required instead of 680 originally. :D
 
I got my extreme bundle back today, very happy with it atm though not run much in the way of stability and tweaking yet.

Its happy to do 4.8GHz on air @ 1.32v with no fuss or temp issues, I'm going to need to read up on the Gigabyte z87x-oc board for a 5GHz OC. I tried it @5GHz with a small voltage boost but it wasn't stable during a stress test and I saw not crazy high temps but spikes and deltas which probably means I need to re-seat my cooler.
 
Tonester0011 said:
Just need that extra rad space, because two 240s (30mm 30FPI) just wont be enough for a lower fan speed and overclocking headroom +780 cooling now required instead of 680 originally. :D
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If it's a reference 780 and your going to do the volt hack,

get the EK waterblock as they seem to be better at cooling the vrms :)
 
Well, the team group kit literally just fell apart in my rig! So they're going back to ocuk, maybe see of avexir can muster up a heat spreader that won't fall apart under its own gravity.
 
Ask team group...just heard a clang took a look and see half a metal heat spreader floating about in my rig :confused:

So that's tg on the do not buy list, I can do without having to find random bits of spreaders stuck in variois slots and ports. Such nice dimms on the surface too.
 
If it makes you feel worse, my TG2133CL9 ram had a loose heat spreader that i had to push back into place :D Whether that would have fallen off who knows, as my rig is flat.

On another note :D Parvum are making me a custom S1.0 case, and i've ordered all my stuff from OCUK :D :D
 
4.8GHz seems ok and stable in Aida64 temps peaked at 78c.
No tweaks needed still on 1.302 volts.
Played Arma 3 for a few hours and temps never exceeded 57c.
I can't help but wish it ran a bit cooler though as I would feel more inclined to press on and see what it can reach.
 
Well if gaming never exceeds 60c at 1.302v, it is running cool.

You can push further if you don't plan on AIDA64'ing 24/7.
 
I'm up to 4.9GHz on Air now running perfectly fine at 1.32v and cool temps, the CPU struggles at 5GHz under load even with extra volts. I don't really want to stress it out at over 1.4v just for a small gain.

Its weird for me stability between 4.9 and 5 GHz is like day and night difference.

Other than cooling in accordance with temps, CPU Vcore and CPU RING is there much more I can do to stabilise things?
 
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