Asrock P67 Extreme4 UEFI & Drivers thread [Extreme6 & Pro3 owners welcome]

[Tunagoblin]

Here is where my point especially is most prominent about absurd prices for some components. A Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus is £16. A Noctua NH-D14 (best price I can find) is £68. The question is; is that 10c drop in temp worth that extra £52? Thats not even a 0.2c temperature improvement each £1 spent.

I think AMD and Intel have to realise its time to stop slapping on the IHS the cheapest way possible. Put it on properly and CPU temps would be quite a bit better. Even right now typing this I'm running some tests and 3 cores average 61c while the 4th core averages 69c. Thats just poor IHS mounting and as Intel don't even have the curtosy to just use TIM under the IHS for skilled folk to make use of a razor blade to skillfully take the IHS off and remount it, I'm stuck with that piss-poor temp on core #1 and nomatter what cooling I use, that delta is always going to be around 9c.

So basically people who spends $250 for modular liquid cooling system to even get 20c drop is waste in your opinion.
But you get the performance either way and it is worth it or not IS still a personal preference.
You obviously don't think it's worth it but some people do feel satisfied for spending $$ to get the extra 5c~10c drop otherwise impossible without getting the new cooler.

On the other hand, I agree with you on uneven quality of IHS.
My i5 has delta of 5-10c between hottest and coolest core.
And that is limiting my i5 to go higher clock.
But at the same time, 99% of Intel users won't be OC.
If they are to run only at stock, it won't matter I guess.
But for the SB K series, they are made for OC.
So at least for K series, they should have made IHS construction/craftsmanship quality better even with some extra cost.
i5 2500K is about $200 which isn't expensive to begin with.
I'd pay extra $20-40 no problem if the chip were made right way.