Z97M Anniversity OC limit?

Threw in the i7 4790k yesterday, and holy damn that thing was hot! over 80c on the hottest core on STOCK.

Investigated the contact, and of course that IHS fugger was bent like a banana.
So I lapped the cpu, and it got a bit better, dropped 10-15c or so.
Got it running 4.4ghz 1.15v and primes at about 75-78c on the hottest core. Not too bad, but not alot of headroom either. Not that it matters, cpu is drawing 130w during prime, so vrms throttles in about a minute.

I tried dropping vcore to 1.1v, primes fine, but get random restarts so Im just running it at 4.4 1.15v now. won't get anywhere near 100% load for long periods anyway.

Battlefield now runs smooth atleast, 60-70% cpu load on average.

Will hold me comfy until a nice matx zen board comes along

wardog wrote: using Auto OC in the BIOS

This thread has gotten out of hand. Stock frequencies, AUTO OC... We should be ashamed of ourselves!

Hehe.

I was quite impressed by the performance of the igpu on skylake, a friend of mine ran World of Warcraft just to see when he had to rma his gtx 970, and to both of our surprise it ran almost smooth whith his normal settings! Pretty cool.

BTW, what is "system agent clock" in your picture? And the uncore, is that the NB frequency itself or something in the cpu?

Ah yes thats right..

The TLC Toshiba/OCZ Trion 150's I have here are reasonably priced and don't carry Samsungs premium 3D price attached. They've a 3yr warranty though.

See what those fetch there in Norway though. Some items in the EU are, for reasons I don't fully understand, reasonably priced while other items seem double in what they should be.

TAMW wrote: Did you guys get any good deals this past weekend?

My Wife made sure the only deal I got was a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5" for $129.99USD.

Which is fine I guess seeing I spent ~$1,000.00US last week on that i7-6700K getup in a Tt Core X9 case. My new test bench it is. Horizontal MB and room enough for both elbows in there.