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Pemalite on 15 February 2014
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lucidium said:
Pemalite said:
From what I can understand from other peoples experiences is, if you get 4.4ghz on your haswell, you're doing well.
Overclocking the Haswell chips seems to throw a massive amount of heat out, not sure how well the closed water-loop will handle it.

Could always do a de-lid to combat that though.

With that in mind... A Haswell Quad-Core @ 4.4ghz *is* going to be faster than my 3930K @ 4.8ghz when anything uses up-to 4 cores.

My thoughts on this are, doing so should be left for the experienced enthusiasts only, seen too many disaster threads on this.


I agree.
Although, it's *really* not difficult thanks to the lack of solder being used on the Heatspreader.

Another option is to sandpaper the heatspreader to get a more level surface. (Plus a better contact for the Thermal compound.)

But if you aren't willing to risk the CPU, then don't bother.



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