Soldato
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I'm still on my phenom II 955 and was going to upgrade with Haswell but now I think I'm just going to see what AMD comes up in the nest few months.
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To put it mildly yes.
The thermal issues are really bad, far worse than IVY
It is quire ridiculous the chip is running high temps under load, well moderate load things such as P95/IBT are impossible to run.
The heatsink is stone cold, all that heat is trapped in the core, the transfer through the IHS is awful.
I could improve the heat transfer into the IHS by de lidding but the IHS is flush with the CPU and it is impossible to get a blade edge between them.
On my IVY's it was easy to get started on a corner but not so easy with this 4770K.
I will certainly break it if I attempt it.
I don't feel inclined to whack it with a hammer either as that probably wont end well.
The MB is sweet and the IMC in the CPU seems decent.
OK for running the 4Ghz challenge I suppose.
We need 8pack to start a delid service, id pay a reasonable fee to have the tim replaced with that liquid metal tim. He could then reseal them with a security seal to stop people buggering them up then blaming him.
Is it better to reseal the lid, or just leave it off?
I think if there were a pre-de-lidded offer available, I might well pay a £50 premium for it.
get out of jail free card? the simple way is to relid it with the liquid metal tim and stick on a hologram security seal at the 2 winged edges; so if anyone reopens it and kills it OC would know.
Some chips are just bad clockers regardless of heat so you would also need to speed bin chips as someone who has spent extra on the delid service wont settle for a mediocre clock expecting top 15-20% percentile at minimum and would likely dsr. That can make ppl wary about the standard stock. It requires employees time binning not to forget the the delidding/application/retesting. Plus their the risk of the odd chip delid going wrong and negating the profit from half a dozen or more of delid chip sales. A lot of hassle and extra overhead for low volume and little gain imo.
Could someone tell me the default voltage for the 4770k ?
There's no such thing. A motherboard with OC presets will give a default voltage for that preset, but the specific CPU you're using might need less or more.
Is there not a default voltage that intel set for the cpu ? I understand specific cpu's may need more or less but there must be spec set for the 4770k .
I'd think that Intel has provided manufacturers with a guideline safe voltage (that information may be freely available, but I haven't looked for it) for some speeds that should allow most CPU's to be stable, but perhaps rather hot. I'll probably be a bit more voltage than the CPU will need. And sure, it can serve as a starting point, but as each CPU and each board is different, when you're overclocking you want the lowest voltage you can get away with for the given speed. It''ll be around 1.3V for the highest clock you can push it anyway (much more than that and temperatures will go through the roof).
I can't remember the voltage when it was still at its default clock, I wasn't interested in those values.
The voltage at stock speed at load isnt read properly by cpuz . I have everything at default and have only just got the system together ,before i ramp up the clock speed i just wanted to know what the voltage should be under load at the default clock .
Is there not a default voltage that intel set for the cpu ? I understand specific cpu's may need more or less but there must be spec set for the 4770k .