Official Intel Haswell Thread

JWildfire · 4 Jun 2013 at 16:06

Wucked said:
Haswell will be a good upgrade for you. People expressing disappointment here are mostly talking about improvements over the last couple of i5 and i7 series CPU's.

I've been running an i7 950@4Ghz for the past couple of years on a ga-x58a-ud3r. Was planning on buying an Ivy a few months back if it wasn't for Haswell on the horizon.

Anyway, just placed my order

Westyfield2 · 4 Jun 2013 at 16:14

shadow_boxer said:
There isn't a huge amount of information available just yet about the i5-4670K overclocking. Seems most reviewers got the flagship i7-4770K engineering samples. I'm sure we'll see more and more consumer feedback over the coming days/weeks. But 4.4GHz should be attainable but all depends on the lottery at the end of day I guess.

This.

I was just reading Hardocp's review... looks like the Engineering Samples were rather special.

The 31 page ASUS Haswell overclocking guide is worth a read too

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lettuce · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:22

Does this CPU look like its been used already?.......

As it appears what to be thermal paste around the edges of IHS and on the foam pad that the CPU was packaged with, its an OEM chip btw

wazza300 · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:29

if its oem its probably been tested in the persuit of a golden chip,try it and see how it clocks,if its good or decent keep it if not return it

lettuce · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:31

Hang on!, so ive basically bought a 2nd hand chip then?

it cant be that a good overclocker overwise OC would have kept it!

RavenXXX2 · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:34

Yeah send it back, but first try it and see if it's a clocker as already suggested. Check the contact pads on the chip to see if socket pins have left their mark, then you will 100% know if it's used.

David Bisset · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:34

wazza300 said:
if its oem its probably been tested in the persuit of a golden chip,try it and see how it clocks,if its good or decent keep it if not return it

Shouldn't have been - decidedly not allowed!

wazza300 · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:38

that's the trouble with oem chips,anyone can test them beforehand,aslong as its a good clocker who cares? with a sealed retail box your guaranteed no ones touched it but you still take a gamble on a good clocker or not

costa rican chips tend to be better clocking chips and malay second,but its not set in stone of seen a few good clockers from both sides

Buckster · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:39

this is why I avoid OEM chips

you'd have thought whoever took this chip out of box of them and packaged it for you would have spotted the thermal paste etc !!

Nelly · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:41

Send it away for DNA analysis, it may have 8-packs DNA on the CPU!

lettuce · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:42

RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah send it back, but first try it and see if it's a clocker as already suggested. Check the contact pads on the chip to see if socket pins have left their mark, then you will 100% know if it's used.

Damn lucky you told me to look for that!...it looks like a resistor? is missing :eek:

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Poor show OC

wazza300 · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:46

could be,or it could some blind solder points,youd need to compare with another close up of haswell chip

lettuce · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:50

wazza300 said:
could be,or it could some blind solder points,youd need to compare with another close up of haswell chip

Nah you can defo tell there was something there, so am i going to have to go through the whole RMA process with this chip even though i received it like this. I wanted to build my PC this weekend

wazza300 · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:51

lettuce said:
Nah you can defo tell there was something there, so am i going to have to go through the whole RMA process with this chip even though i received it like this. I wanted to build my PC this weekend

just rma it,they can't refuse it now theres a resistor missing,fingers crossed you get a better chip,i wouldn't risk testing it either it might damage your board,just be patient and you'll soon be up n running

lettuce · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:57

Will they send a replacement out as soon as they receive the chip back, to say im a bit ****ed off is an understatement :mad:

Cant believe they would try and pull something like this selling 2nd hand stock as new!!!....i thought OC had good customer service and rep!

Buckster · 4 Jun 2013 at 17:57

^^ lol

any fingerprints ?

Buckster · 4 Jun 2013 at 18:00

ask to pay extra for the retail

whats the different ? £6 ? I never use the coolers that come with the CPUs - but to me in the past £5-£10 difference on an expensive processor, for a sealed box (and longer warranty I think ?) is a complete no brainer

smilertoo · 4 Jun 2013 at 18:03

I pretty much expected all OEM cpus to be pre-tested to select the good ones for their prebuilt systems.

lettuce · 4 Jun 2013 at 18:04

Well if this is the case then they should state it in the item description

arknor · 4 Jun 2013 at 18:07

I thought they didn't sell already used oem cpus? the poor clockers that don't meet the oc'ed bundles specs get used in the lower clock bundles or prebuilt systems?

BTW the 2 dents on the top of the chip one at each end are what happens when you install it into the cpu socket and put the retention mechanism thingy down to clamp it in place so that one has definitely been used.

my retail one looked brand spanking new and all shiny, I never took notice of the resistors on the bottom though so I couldn't tell you if one is missing

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