Haswell-E +Asus OC Socket

Xrqute

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So I've been doing abit of reading on this subject and today I found this and I quote-

Asustek’s LGA2011-3 O.C. sockets feature pins which Intel uses only for testing of chips, but does not utilise on commercial products. The additional pins allow to increase core voltage (Vcore) of Intel Core i7-5800-/5900-series “Haswell-E” microprocessors to 2.1V – 2.2V, up from 1.2V. The increase of CPU Vcore enables overclockers to reach higher clock-rates than on motherboards made by other makers.

A whole volt!!! That sounds bonkers to me being the owner of a 3930k where 0.3v was a big move and a big change in the thermal output.

I'm assuming the quoted voltages are still well within safe limits, otherwise I could see that site potentially getting in alot of shit when zeeee newbs fry there cpu's.(as there is no disclaimer attached to the article)

When ttl said to me that we hadn't seen anything about asus x99 boards because they had something super special lined up I gotta say the man wasn't wrong.

To me it feels like Asus have turned Haswell-E into what potentially could be the best overclockers/watercoolers/enthusiasts cpu of all time.

Has anyone got their hands on a Haswell-E + R5E/Deluxe and really given it these sort of big voltages? If so how'd it respond? What sort of clocks did you get? And most importantly what sort of change did you see in the thermal?
 
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Can you really only put 1.2V through a normal socket? Seems pretty low surely the likes of the Xpower can do better than that, maybe reference or stock voltage is being confused in here somewhere.

I don't like linking out of OC3D but this article on Anandtech answers your questions pretty well with some decent quotes from Asus about running certain voltages too. - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8426/the-intel-haswell-e-cpu-review-core-i7-5960x-i7-5930k-i7-5820k-tested/3


Ive been using 1.3v in my review testing so it will be interesting to see if 1.2 is the max on the MSI thats on the bench now.

Indeed Guv that would be hella embarrassing for MSI if their flagship motherboard can only do 4.3GHz on a good day.

JR
 
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I'll inbox you both the article so you both can have a quick read and we can further discuss.
 
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