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And you could de-lid a K6 with a flathead screwdriver in about 5 seconds.

The only thing you actually do want to avoid is flipping the case so that the pump/res is completely upside down.

The SP rating is just based on the voltage/frequency curve. A common misconception is that a CPU core that needs less voltage is automatically superior to one that needs more. It is not necessarily true. Sometimes a core that gets by on lower voltage also has higher leakage, which means that...

You probably disturbed the retention mechanism, and now it's not applying even pressure.

I'm going to assume that we're talking about DDR4 and not DDR5. It doesn't make a big difference as long as you are running in dual-channel on a dual-channel platform or quad-channel on a quad-channel platform. But, if you want to know what is ideal in terms of getting the last drop of...

Amazing deal. I paid 2K for this exact laptop 6 months ago, except with 32GB/2TB.

11. People will complain about the operating temperature, but brag about having low power consumption.

You might be able to raise some timings instead. Start a new thread if you want some help.

It's like overclocking anything else. Find the limit, and then dial it back one notch.

I like my Logitech K270 membrane keyboards. They turn to mush after a few years, and then I spend another $20 to buy a new one.

That's been my experience as well. If a memory test fails, it doesn't necessarily mean there's anything wrong with the sticks. If I suspect a problem with RAM, it makes way more sense to me to just swap in known-good sticks and see if the problem goes away.

It depends. If the RAM is just going to be run at stock or XMP, then no. If it's some 3200-rated stuff that I intend to run much faster, then yeah, I'll dial it up and run some tests to make sure I know where I should draw the line.

From what I can gather, the CCDs are still going to be 8-core.

The 5.5GHz boost clock would account for most of it, and doubling the L2 cache would account for the rest of it.

Anyone who thinks that in 2 months a 4070/4080/4090 is going to cost what a 3070/3080/3090 costs right now is kidding themselves. You probably won't even be able to get one.

16 "real cores" should be very good for production work. Intel is going to need a shit load of e-cores to compete with that. In terms of gaming, this thing's biggest competition is going to be their own 5800X3D. If I were them, I would lock that sucker down to something ridiculous like 4.5GHz...

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The increase in load will be very close to linear.

I run Windows 10 Pro to avoid being nagged about anything I don't want to be nagged about. As for the crashing while watching YT, I don't think it's being caused by your OS. I get years of continuous crash-free uptime on all my Win 10 systems.

Just get a 5800X3D and leave the other $200 in your bank account.

When I did it, it automatically entered the values directly into the BIOS/NVRAM.

Automatic curve-optimizer seems useless to me. It picked a range of values from -22 to -29 for the cores on my 5600X which isn't remotely stable. I have one core that can't do more than -5.

I guess the thing to do would be to inform DHL first and give them a chance to rectify it. If they fail to do so in a timely manner, find a real journalist and inform them.

Yeah, I like how AM4 turned out. I might just go all-in on AM5.

I just upgraded from a Ryzen 1700 to a 5600X on an ASUS Prime B350 Plus that I bought 5 years ago. Best $200 upgrade ever.

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Try to run a negative voltage offset. -0.05v would be a good place to start testing.

It's a 280mm Koolance HX-CU1402V with push/pull fans and a 120mm Bykski CR-RD120TR-TK-V2. The only problem with going thicker than 40mm (or going push/pull) on the 120mm radiator is that it won't clear the 200mm fan at the top. That 200mm fan does wonders for VRM, DRAM, and GPU temps. The...

I have three of these going right now. One X99 with custom water and two Ryzens, a 1700X and a 5800X with 280mm AIOs. They're very solidly built and probably one of the best cases (if not the best) you can still easily find if you're running a air-cooled GPU because of the 200mm fan mount.

If you're old enough to remember the days of the K6, I'd say this could turn out like the K6-III getting released 4 months before the Athlon. Adding 256K on-die L2 cache to the K6-2 meant that the 1-2MB of motherboard L2 cache became an L3 and the combination allowed it to match or beat a...

Understood. With all that radiator space, the differences in temperature that result from where you slot the fans in is going to be very, very small. Push/Pull fans do not actually need to match, and sometimes you can avoid certain annoying acoustics by having a slight mismatch. I doubt that...

I would use all of the T30s as push fans (meaning that they blow air into the fins). I don't like the harmonics of the P12 so I wouldn't use them at all, but if I were using them, I would install the P12s as pull fans wherever they fit, with priority given to using them on the thicker and/or...

I think you meant to quote/reply to TheSlySyl?

If they're mounted vertically, then there should be no problem. It's the horizontal orientation that can eventually cause the oil to migrate. Most of the better sleeve bearing fans being marketed today incorporate mechanisms to mitigate this problem (a.k.a fluid dynamic bearings or whatever...

I would try it with and without washer mod and see what happens. Results seem to vary. If there's no improvement or a regression with the mod, revert it back to stock, and you're only out $10 (or less if you can find 1mm nylon M4 washers locally). As for the second question, it depends on how...

Mounting on the top or bottom of a case is exactly the application that you'd want these gentle typhoons for. Ball Bearings don't really care about orientation the way fluid-dynamic bearing updraft floating balance bearing rifle bearing SSO2 bearing hydralic bearing sleeve bearing fans do.

I tried using one of these Radioshack 120AC fans with a homemade shroud and a grill made from chicken wire to cool a K6-233. That turd would still crash eventually at 75x3.5. The only other time I ran ultra-loud fans was when I bought a swiftech MC1000 peltier cooler for my PIII-450. It...

The one I tested a few years ago was definitely convex. I've seen plenty of reports like yours of the LF II being really good with ADL.

I'm surprised that they haven't gone back to bare-die packaging yet.

1. Phanteks T30-120 - if you want best and don't care how much they cost or that they only seem to be available in 3-packs right now. 30mm thick 2. Noctua NF-A12x25 - really really good 3. Thermaltake Toughfan 12 - pretty good knock off of the one above, a little cheaper 4. MSI Silent Gale 12 -...