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Flat metal packages are power mosfets for auxiliary power supply ('AUX voltage' in Afterburner). They are fine without direct cooling if ambient temps are low, but for safety I would put a small...

Dimensions are the same and socket holes have the same thread as old LGA2011. Some boards might not have holes in PCB, with threaded holes being attached to top part of loading mechanism. Assembled...

What kind of epoxy (or whatever heat-activated polymer/metal composite stuff) holds stronger than die underfill and bond pads? This looks to me like metalised wafer soldered to IHS.

They got infected by Nvidia's mindset of standing alone and not giving a damn.

Very nice writeup! Only way it could be improved would be more pictures, and most of them wide angle :)

I'd be interested in seeing the design. I would also gladly sacrifice some accuracy (0.5 C / 1 F accuracy should be enough for most overclockers) if it meant a significant cost reduction.

FIVR is present in Broadwell, on 14 nm - so it's not a simple process issue.

FIVR is extremely efficient compared to low frequency buck converter. I don't think heat losses are significant on...

Reasons for this are puzzling. Certainly not catering to enthusiasts, probably not to laptop makers either. Are they having problems integrating analog stuff on 14 nm? Or is that just for Sky Bay,...

Cooler is Grand Kama Cross, temps are far from throttling (exact numbers, being a figment of DTS-es imagination, are disregarded).

No, non-K versions are plain old Haswell. K versions of those numbers are Devil's Canyon and require a BIOS update, which should be coming soon for Gigabyte Z87 boards.


In other news, #1...

SPD Tool has last worked on P45 and X58 - you might be able to find a Core 2 Duo laptop to flash it.

Logitech G9 (non x)!

FYI: 3.7 GHz is base clock, not turbo.

I don't know, can you tell me?

Bravo Blizzard, it only took you almost 2 years. Not bad, I believe Windows and some web browsers have had some unfixed bugs for even longer.

1. It's not 1st of April, why waste a joke?

2. WTF is wccftech doing? They see an obvious fake and report it anyway? People will do anything for hits these days...

They are not interested in non-military people who are gamers. They do it to check if it might be worthwhile to let military men (fighter pilots and such) play computer games in attempt to improve...

Today's CPUs are packaged in flip-chip way - the side with transistors and interconnect layers is turned down, towards the substrate. There's nothing important on the visible side of the die. You...

I thought "the console loss" was due to enormous R&D costs, not per unit manufacturing cost. It's extremely unbelievable that manufacturing anything like PS3 would cost 840$ if you don't count...

Official reference HD 7990 is NOT the same board as FirePro S10000. It's the same two GPUs but a different board.

It just struck me that Nvidia quitting the chipset business freed some color schemes for other uses :)

Wow, this could be the best SFF case ever!

There's only two problems that might make me not buy it:

1) slim OD facing upwards? This is not good whether it's a slot or tray drive.
2) It will...

I don't remember this being confirmed anywhere. AFAIK only BD, PD and SR are confirmed to be evolutions of the same modular architecture.

I hope those whispers get louder soon :)

Silicon interposers and other forms of advanced packaging can convert many these problems to other problems :) On-package memory from AMD has been sighted years ago, it might be close to volume...

Nope, you'll find out very soon :)


I thought "that other website" from a certain slavic country has lost all credibility by now? Please don't ever take it seriously again :D