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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

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Going to have to use the vice method to get the lid off mine, can't get a blade in about under the edge at all it seems.
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The vice method looks like the best, orientation of the CPU looks like it can be very important, knowing which side of the CPU PCB to hit in the vice as not to knock off any of the resistors under the lid as it breaks free!



strikeing it from resistor side looks like the best option to delid, becase if you hit from other side and the PCB skates across the ICH it might knock some off!
 
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vapor matt said:
The vice method looks like the best, orientation of the CPU looks like it can be very important, knowing which side of the CPU PCB to hit in the vice as not to knock off any of the resistors under the lid as it breaks free!
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Yeah I was thinking about that as well. The lids are definitely a closer fit to the PCB than the ones on IB.
 
you can cut through a tiny part of the ihs if you aim the blade upward away from the pcb,i did that with my ivy chip

otherwise the hammer/vice looks to be the best
 
I was at the UK Haswell Live Launch in Long Eaton over the weekend and we were using ES samples that were the same as retail chips.

One 4770k I was using could run on air at 5Ghz with the voltage at 1.3v

The cooler was a Prolimatech Megahalems with two Artic F12 in a push/pull configuration

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Got mine set for 4.2ghz using phantek air cooler with AS5. Hits 90+ in OCCT but only 66 when 3d rendering. I'll need to wait for updated drivers that make OCCT etc return proper values for all cores on my MSI X87 G65 gaming mobo.
 
I was at the UK Haswell Live Launch in Long Eaton over the weekend and we were using ES samples that were the same as retail chips.

One 4770k I was using could run on air at 5Ghz with the voltage at 1.3v
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ES sample chips, cherry picked to launch haswell, they might be the same as retail chips but it seems retail chips cant get to 5ghz or near it unless you have a very special chip! and very good cooling!
 
Email ocuk,if you didnt get them it probably means they were out of stock,they will email you the codes soon as they can

But you need to tell them
 
It's inside the CPU box.

I'm having nothing but troubles with my Haswell stock set up, instability.
I've already had one corrupt OS install, and it was fresh!
 
Not inside my cpu box :( need to phone tomorrow
I thought i got away with not having to reinstall windows but various licenses are now invalid thanks to new mobo, so a reinstall will need to be done.
 
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Strange that it was in my CPU box then..

I'm thinking my CPU just might be unstable at stock, or hates my RAM.
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not the oc force?

tweaktown/gigabyte have released the z87 beta bios's today,it might help with stability and your ram,if not you can always flash back

im using a beta myself on z77

GA-Z87X-OC - F5h http://www.mediafire.com/download/b82g8rcyr15ly50/Z87XOC.5h.zip

use a usb stick and press f8 or end and flash through qflash

you can also flick the bios switch and just flash the backup bios with the beta and keep f4 on the main,then you have a choice of either
 
I'll try it cheers.
Think it's battered another Windows Install too.
>.<

I'm going to downclock it all and through up some voltages until I have time to fix it.
But so far, I feel let down.
 
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