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What are you cooling your 12900KS with ?
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that looks like a bargin if..it can cool as it says it can.
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Did it come with the 1700 bracket? I wanna buy it just to test it against my u12a
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Update... Cut two 140mm holes in the case front panel as the front fans were seriously choked in my Bequiet case. New temps while gaming around 50c !
Soldato
What case do you have then?
I can't seem to see it on your signature.
Mine is not good at the front either.
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Bequiet Pure Base 600. One of their models has alternative front panels but not this one !
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The artic freezer 2 420mm should do the job, I have one on my 12600kf.
What case are you using?
I'm happy with it, getting upto 70 degrees during benchmarks with my 10700KF. I was previously getting upto 100 Celsius (causing thermal throttling) with a Hyper EVO 212 in Prime95.
In terms of size, it just about fits in my mid tower case, being about 1mm taller than the 212.
My board seems to have a current limit of 150 amps, so can't push the CPU very far, oh well...
Definitely going with AMD and avoiding ASRock (known now for false advertising, and very hot VRMs on some boards) motherboards for the next upgrade. At least with AMD, customers tend to get the turbo frequencies on the box, and the base clock of Zen CPUs hasn't changed much with each generation, unlike the last few Intel generations.
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There is only a handful of games (at very low resolution) that push the 12900k. Cyberpunk is a prime example. For everything else its whateva, farcry 6 at 90 to 120 fps has the cpu at 55 watts.
This is a bit off topic, but isn't there any requirement for motherboard manufacturers to list the current limit for a motherboard's VRM?
Seems pretty dodgy to sell a motherboard, and leave this key detail out when many CPUs won't hit their turbo boost frequencies.
If CPU socket current is maxed out, this works out at 150amps x 1.2v = 180w, so the CPU frequencies are throttled above this power level. I need approx 1.2v to keep the CPU stable at 4.6ghz all core.
The impression I get is that the amount of watts used by the VRM for the CPU socket is not the same as the watts reported in Windows for the CPU package.
Is it true that this CPU struggles with 4.8ghz all core, anyway?
That's what this review suggests:
www.techpowerup.com
Seems pretty dodgy to sell a motherboard, and leave this key detail out when many CPUs won't hit their turbo boost frequencies.
If CPU socket current is maxed out, this works out at 150amps x 1.2v = 180w, so the CPU frequencies are throttled above this power level. I need approx 1.2v to keep the CPU stable at 4.6ghz all core.
The impression I get is that the amount of watts used by the VRM for the CPU socket is not the same as the watts reported in Windows for the CPU package.
Is it true that this CPU struggles with 4.8ghz all core, anyway?
That's what this review suggests:
Intel Core i7-10700K Review - Unlocked and Loaded
The Core i7-10700K is Intel's second strongest overclockable Comet Lake CPU, with a powerful 8c/16t configuration. We saw pretty amazing tweaking potential from the 10700 non-K, so we'll definitely compare against that in the Core i7-10700K review, and of course against AMD's Ryzen 9 3900X.
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Update...
Replaced the bequiet with a Noctua NH-D15s and temps have certainly dropped (still using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme). It's cooler today yet idling at ~22c, max in demo 62c (Nvidia city), 4k games 45-52c. Previous temps often reached around 77-82c.
Replaced the bequiet with a Noctua NH-D15s and temps have certainly dropped (still using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme). It's cooler today yet idling at ~22c, max in demo 62c (Nvidia city), 4k games 45-52c. Previous temps often reached around 77-82c.
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Temps idle and heavy gaming ?
I have the Pure Base 500. Guess the idea was to minimise the fan noise. I've noticed that they have since updated the range with the FX and DX units which have a mesh front instead.
Have you ever tried lifting off the magnetically held on top plate? I find that reduces temps in these cases quite a bit in Summer time. I've also ditched the fans and replaced them with three Noctua units, as they still give quiet operation at higher fan speeds.
Yep, I have the regular NH-D15. Brilliant coolers, if a bit on the pricey side.
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Hmmm Noctua fans are an idea for the future, the one on The Noctua cooler is impressively quiet.. Yes had the lid off the case but of no use as there was still the problem of very poor air flow. Looks great with the big holes now, if not a bit risky when little fingers are in the area !