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*** The Official Alder Lake owners thread ***

Vimes said:
@Kelt I am not inquisitive enough to find out, hoping that you would and come back to tell us how great it is and so much better, lol...!

The most that I see under full load of Cinebench R23 is 1.28v for the vcore. The temps are great and so is its performance.

The Mhz speeds you noted were the same for me when I had a MSI board, due to the BCLK running at 99.951Mhz and not 100Mhz, as it should.
The Gigabyte board I now have runs at a true 100Mhz and so shows 5100Mhz and 4100mhz for the cores when on full load. Probably similar to you, just something to notice but of no concern.

MSI....

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Gigabyte...

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yup, my 420mm AIO and case fans are so very quiet. for now I'm happy enough just to leave things as they are - they work and do so very quietly.
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It is just such a great chip, everything just flies!

Gaming now is pure smoothness!
 
Jono8 said:
Inclined to send it back for a refund as I think it was due to the mounting bracket not lining up. On the artic , the mounts have a double hole line type of thing. On the be quiet it's just one hole , and the long bars were too big! This meant the only way to get some maneuvering so it would fit was to loosen the back plate, but then I think this probably reduce the pressure on the cpu (hence the high temps). Pretty darn shoddy.

The Arctic was only £25 too! Amazing price considering it seems to be able to cool a stock 12700k adequately ( I don't intend on overclocking at all ).
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your Artic 34 esports cooler...i have pretty much exactly the same setup but my cinibench temps are how yours were on the be quiet, any tips on fitting the 34? What paste did you end up using and would finger tightening the screws be sufficient?

About to repaste/reseat and see how that goes, otherwise the chip is a beast coming from a 3700x. :D
 
anything-but said:
your Artic 34 esports cooler...i have pretty much exactly the same setup but my cinibench temps are how yours were on the be quiet, any tips on fitting the 34? What paste did you end up using and would finger tightening the screws be sufficient?

About to repaste/reseat and see how that goes, otherwise the chip is a beast coming from a 3700x. :D
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I just used the paste that came with it. Presumably you are using the Z690 bracket ordered from Arctic?
 
Vimes said:
The Mhz speeds you noted were the same for me when I had a MSI board, due to the BCLK running at 99.951Mhz and not 100Mhz, as it should.
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You'll probably find its due to Spread Spectrum being enabled, normal when you OC this is recommended to be disabled.
 
Jono8 said:
I just used the paste that came with it. Presumably you are using the Z690 bracket ordered from Arctic?
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Yea, i did a re-seat and it's a little better though...what's your voltage settings if you don't mind? I've set a -150 offset with everything else on auto, CB23 gives me 22700 and had no issues gaming, coming from being a long time AMD user so now i'm on Intel i'm at the beginning for learning what to touch and what to leave well alone in the bios. :D
 
Vimes said:
@Kelt perhaps it is named differently on some boards, or perhaps not even an option.
It might be a visual thing, in terms of it being noticed and not a problem, but it did "bother" me. Bother being "meh" as in it should be a rounded number..!
thanks for letting us know.

oldish but still noted here...
Complete BIOS Tuning Guide - "Spread Spectrum Control" - ASUS Striker II Extreme: Mucho Bang, Mucho Bucks (anandtech.com)

perhaps dropped as an option..?
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That's what I was looking for, my old X58 had those options, but can't see them on the MSI.

There are so many strange and unknown (to me) options on these mobo's, I'm lost!
 
Can somebody give me a few tips with regards to overclocking my i2700k? I've changed a few things to let the system do it itself but the voltage goes up to 1.45ish! It's been abiut 10 years since I've overclocked a pc so I have completely forgotten everything I once knew :D
 
Soulja said:
Can somebody give me a few tips with regards to overclocking my i2700k? I've changed a few things to let the system do it itself but the voltage goes up to 1.45ish! It's been abiut 10 years since I've overclocked a pc so I have completely forgotten everything I once knew :D
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Ha that’s about the same as me, not touched overclocking or owned a pc in years :D So many options now in the bios :mad: My motherboard had a option to decrease the variable voltage by a set amount as the voltage changes as the cpu gets loaded. Set mine to -0.125 I think so now my temps are in check and sitting nice at 5000 all p cores
 
Soulja said:
Can somebody give me a few tips with regards to overclocking my i2700k? I've changed a few things to let the system do it itself but the voltage goes up to 1.45ish! It's been abiut 10 years since I've overclocked a pc so I have completely forgotten everything I once knew :D
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All I've done so far is to set the core voltage manually to 1.26V, and the core multiplier to 51-P and 40-E.

Voila, rock solid 5.1/4 Ghz, with nice, cool and silent running.
 
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