What I found to be fascinating was the die size; 22nm!!

Quote Originally Posted by skuldarin View Post
How frustrating is that... doing 25 passes on LinX at 4.67ghz and 1866 mem and 3733 uncore. Each pass scratching at 102gflops and it BSODs on the 24th pass at full mem of 12gigs with a 101 stop code >.< vcore at 1.51825v... temps are average 85-89*c so ill bump it to 1.525 and try one more time. After it passes, its back down to 4.13ghz for the spring and summer to keep cores at 60*c and below.
From my experience skul, that happens purely due to too much heat. Maybe not necessarily just the CPU, but the surrounding components as well.

A trick I found is to do the run with the pc near a open window on a relatively cool night. It's like cheating to make your rad stay cool but hey, it works. I'll admit that was how I got to 4.5GHz . I did mention ambients tho haha

P.S. PPCs has the EK full MB block for $79.95. Both acetal and acrylic versions