JEMC said:
disolitude said:
JEMC said:
disolitude said:
The problem with watercooling these days is that you really have to go all out and watercool everything or just stick with AIOs for the CPU. However recent intel CPUs (3770k, 4770k) really dont benefit from watercooling much. 2600k was able to do 5ghz and beyond as long as you cool it properly but these new ones tend to crap out at 4.8/4.9 no matter what you do or how you cool it.
On the AMD side, the cpu does benefit from watercoolin but even at 5.2 ghz, it bottlenecks the GPUs with a proper GTX 780 sli that are overclocked and watercooled.
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But isn't that because Intel messed with the heat spreader replacing the solder they used with some thermal paste?
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From what I've understood, the 22 nm technology is much harder to cool due to smaller surface under the spreader. There was a great video on Time to live cutom Youtube channel where Tom did 3770k overclocking and explained what happened...
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That's also true, the 22nm tri-gate process makes the chips smaller but a the same time it also concentrates the heat in a smaller surface, causing overheating problems if not cooledr properly.
But Intel also changed the way the heat spreader "joints" to the chip, making the heat problems even worse. That's why since Ivy-Bridge there has been an increase in the number of threads (on other forums, ofc) about how to replace the heat-spreader to change the TIM, and even EK has launched a kit to help watercool the chips without the heat spreader.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Water-Cooling-IHS-Intel-Ivy,21744.html
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That's a really neat idea. Ill look around for some benchmarks for these watercooling kits without the spreader and check if they really do allow for higher overclocking... If it does, I smell a new fun project for me. :)
