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six years ago when the Intel xtreme edition 4960x ruled the roost there were

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rumors of a secret CPU one that was even

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faster but that no one at Intel would

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ever acknowledge in any way and until about two weeks ago the most

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evidence that i had ever seen for its existence was a couple of photos in

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weird obscure forums that could have easily been photoshopped

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until the ebay listing went up someone listed they had about a couple

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dozen of these things the Intel black ops 4.6 gigahertz six core CPU and those

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specs don't sound that impressive until you factor in that this thing was

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allegedly created way back in 2013 and

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they had them on ebay for just 260 dollars

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not necessarily a great value by today's standards

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but oh man there was no way

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that you were gonna keep me from testing this thing out

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it's real instantly see your current and past

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network activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your pc or

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Android device with glassware use offer code Linus to get 25 off glasswire at

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the link in the video description

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while the pricing of the black ops might not make a ton of sense assuming that

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you're paying full pop for all the rest of your system components if you were to

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pair it up with one of these x79 motherboards that's made using recycled

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chipsets we did a full video on this one recently and then maybe some cast off

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ddr3 that somebody didn't want there is a pretty compelling argument to be made

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for six cores at 4.6 gigahertz on

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a budget of about 360 dollars so that's what i'm going to

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try first but honestly speaking i have

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no idea if this thing is going to boot up because there are a couple of things

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about it that are pretty special 4.6 gigahertz six cores was a huge deal

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back then this is what is apparently known internally at Intel as an everest

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chip that means that it is the highest possible speed bin of a given chip

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design on a given micro architecture so compared to the 4960x which was a

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broadly available consumer chip based on Intel's iv bridge architecture

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this was like the kind of thing that maybe only a tiny percentage of dies were

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capable of so they couldn't even make enough of them to sell in a retail box

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on the shelf of the local micro center one of the other unusual things about

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these chips is that allegedly they don't have any support for hyper threading

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which is weird right because that's been a major Intel selling point going back

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about 15 years now why would that be

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so the rumor again we have no confirmation of this is that these were

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used for high frequency stock trading

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where single threaded performance is the absolute king and nothing else really

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matters for example the everest skew

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from the westmire family of products was the xeon x-5698

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that was a six core die that actually only had two of its cores active but it

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still retained access to its entire 12 megabytes of level 3 cash now as far as

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we know no stock exchange ever actually ended up using these for trading and

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these days they've moved on to fpgas and in some cases asics but what we don't

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know is why one theory is that it was nearly

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impossible to tame the inferno that is

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this chip because while Intel could build a 4.6

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gigahertz 6 core six years ago what they couldn't do is

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build it efficiently the listed or well

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listed the reported TDP of this thing is

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250 watts with some users who have gotten their hands on them claiming that

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they need to down clock them significantly just to get Windows to

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boot so i do think it's a bit of a long shot

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for our weird rando motherboard to boot this thing at all but

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hey the only way to know for sure is to give

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it a try ain't it uh i don't remember

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which pins too short for power so oh those ones

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wow okay okay there we go 32 gigs of RAM

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uh and it crashed interesting all right

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let's uh try that again was that it we don't get another post

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that was a short-lived adventure

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fortunately i brought a backup plan

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this i have a lot higher hopes for this one genuine Intel CPU at 4.6 gigahertz

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press f1 to run setup we might just have to reset some memory

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all right so reseeding our memory and our CPU didn't help we're still only

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detecting 24 gigs but we decided what

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the hey let's do a quick boot attempt anyway completely bone

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stock settings we didn't even enable an xmp profile for our memory to run at

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full speed why is razer gaming software able to run

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while like Windows is still initializing devices this thing managed to boot

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wow task manager has no idea what it is it just shows up as genuine Intel CPU

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i've seen this before with some engineering samples we've got 25 megs

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level three cache 4.6 gigahertz six cores six threads so no hyper threading

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at idle the heatsinks fine but it remains to be seeing what happens

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if we actually hit it with a load it's

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curious why are we only getting 80 utilization

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oh we need some drivers whoops uh black ops continuation that's

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part two we're at just 3.6 gigahertz and our CPU

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usage is pinned at 80 percent i thought it was like maybe some kind of weird

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driver issue but everything is showing up properly

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now so i don't get it that is a bizarre

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stock voltage like i have changed

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nothing about this thing we might need more cooling too like this thing is warm

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it's idling at 60 degrees right now

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70. lttstore.com

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so in an attempt to fix both of our problems with this system i've swapped

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out the board hopefully that'll address getting all four of our memory sticks to

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show up and i've run and obtained a liquid cooling

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kit this is one of ek's fluid gaming

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kits it's not like the most exceptional water cooling on the face of the earth but

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it'll be better than an air cooler so i would say who could possibly need this

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much thermal compound but the answer is me

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now we've got our water cooling setup and because i'm a little bit concerned

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that even you know a decent water cooling setup won't be enough for this

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bloody thing i'm just going to go ahead and throw some ice in our reservoir here

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man this is going to be really inconvenient if i have to swap a bunch

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of motherboards and crap hey 32 gigs of RAM so we solved that problem and that's

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weird our voltage is 1.39 at defaults now all

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right let's do a quick BIOS update just to

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see how that makes us feel yeah that ice has already melted

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well i mean mostly i was just filling it with the water that was in my water

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bottle and because it's insulated it happened to still have ice cubes in it

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lttstore.com latest BIOS overvoltage error is back

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and we're back at 1.6 volts super weird how are we at 44 degrees

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we're not even doing anything now we're at 84 utilization we're still at 3.86

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gigahertz though let's try a different board board number three all our memory

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is showing up so that seems to have been an issue with that first board holy crap

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it's stuck at 84 again what does this even mean so i don't remember if i

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mentioned this already or not but i got my hands on two of them just because

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well there were such a curiosity and

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i wasn't sure how well this whole thing would go down so i wanted to have a

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backup and maybe just maybe there's something

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wrong with that first one hold on a second we should well wait

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what the what i did notice is we didn't get a CPU over voltage error

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yeah this is the latest oh there it is CPU over voltage error

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same stock voltage you know i was really hoping that with adequate cooling we

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would manage to get this thing booted like at stock speed

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let's see if we get past 84 utilization here

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82. i think i just need to accept that

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no boards designed for at max a 160 watt

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TDP CPU are not just gonna plug and play work with a 250 watt one

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still only 3.87 gigahertz i don't

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i understand that let's try turning the voltage down 88 is

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better than 84. clock speed shouldn't be jumping around

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like this it should be fixed so basically it just does whatever it

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wants and it's just a matter of turning the

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voltage down until the system behaves itself

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kind of tempted to turn it down even more like turn it down to more like a

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stock voltage which for this one is just a hair over one volt or actually under

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for some chips

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why don't we do that and it behaves exactly the same way

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at least it doesn't run so hot anymore though

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so i guess there's that so that's it 3.86 gigahertz all core turbo and the

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only really quirky thing about it is that it comes with a stock voltage of

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1.6 volts assuming some kind of incredible cooling system that you'd

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have to put on it so it seems to me that you need specific bio support

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for unlocking this chip in order to actually get it to

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overclock to its stock speed and whether it's due to the utilization

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issue we're running into or just a lack of frequency because it's not

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running at 4.2 performance kind of blows like in spite of having two more cores

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than a 4770k it is getting beat pretty handily here

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so given that you know let's fire up the ebay

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bids okay buy it now 140 bucks i definitely wouldn't go through the

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hassle of goofing around with one of these

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but i have to know if maybe this is just

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an ASUS idiosyncrasy and if i try a different motherboard

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vendor you know maybe it'll work perfectly so

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i dug one last x79 board out of the moth balls it's a Gigabyte x 79 s something

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something i can't remember it's just become less about making a

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video and more about satisfying my own personal curiosity at this point

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oh wow is this not even gonna post

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i've got one last hail mary

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and i think this is very unlikely to work but i recently got

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my hands on one of these theoretically as quad socket capable cpus they should

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also be dual socket capable but given that this is not exactly the

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world's most amazeballs motherboard i think it's very

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unlikely these things are going to boot in it i'm just i have to try i'm

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planning a full video about this board by the way because it is really cool so

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make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss that wait are you going to try and run both

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at the same time look i'm out of options this is the last

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maybe compatible board that i have

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this is the problem with troubleshooting there's always something else to try but

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in all seriousness this is the last thing i have to try

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whoa no way holy crap that was actually it sorry

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can i startle you uh right i'm not plugged wait what the f

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how did i get into the BIOS

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why is it detected as 3.4

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interesting

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power management factory long duration power limit there

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it is performance

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custom let's leave everything default and just

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see if it boots well i didn't even plug in a boot drive

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i really really did not think that was going to do anything

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so this board has no way for me to adjust voltage

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so this thing is freaking furnace hot right now

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but as a total long shot um i decided to

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disable two of the cores per socket and just

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see what happens so i've got eight cores

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four per socket and it did manage to boot

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oh yeah okay so our water cooled one is at like 25-ish

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the other one's at like 50-ish at idle

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so our speed is slightly higher because we're turboing four cores instead of six

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but our utilization is still 86 percent

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10 of 10 very weird

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you guys than it was for me and uh

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i guess i'll see you in the next video where we'll take a look at this motherboard with cpus that actually like

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work properly