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what the heck look at this thing

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i have never in all my years seen a cpu that looks

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anything like that that's it

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that's the cpu so the bare dye is

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exposed it's got like this looks like

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it's an aluminum like mounting plate thing that is then

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screwed into what would normally be the

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the mounting plate for the socket where the

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cpu would fit the back plate's normal but hold on here

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we go this is it what even are these things

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how would you be expected to install them so our story begins

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cooling components has great performance rgb etc etc you're going to find out a

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lot more about it as the video progresses because we're going to be using a hydrox setup to cool

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this okay not this this is a motherboard but

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inside this box is something the likes of which i have

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never seen anything quite like so this

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is actually a big long note from tim

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a big fan of the channel and the new local supplier of bga to lga 1151

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cpus and tim has actually sent us over a

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whack of these cpus to check out and what's interesting about them

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is that these are laptop processors so bga or ball

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grid array chips that are designed to be soldered directly onto a motherboard and

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then with you know some kind of custom cooling solution applied over top of

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them like heat pipes or whatever the case may be so these are these laptop

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cpus these bga cpus that are soldered

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instead of to a laptop motherboard to this

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carrier adapter pcb and then in turn no wait okay so no this

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is actually a super thick pcb that the ball grid array cpu is soldered

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onto and then there's going to have to be pass-through traces inside it which

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we can't see and then it's actually just machined out on either side so that this

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bottom lga 1151 compatible

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surface here full of contact pads can fit properly in the socket wow

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there's a couple things that are unique about this solution one of them is of

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course the adapter and the second is this piece right here so this is the

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su-pch named presumably for mr sue who

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is running this operation now this does a couple of things number one is it

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takes our custom pcb here and allows us to

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have it held in place so there's actually four little mounting holes on

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the corners and those correspond to four little pegs on the inside of this uh

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this adapter plate here the second thing that it does is it acts as a shim which

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is a way of keeping the cpu safe when you're mounting a cooler to it now in

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the old days desktop processors just like their mobile counterparts had

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exposed dies like this but nowadays in

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order to keep them from getting cracked while people are you know applying heat

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things to them and stuff like that most manufacturers cover their chips with an

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ihs or an integrated heat spreader now that comes with actually a heat transfer

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penalty but it was seen as not being as important as keeping the things from

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getting cracked and chipped and broken so this shin that goes around it

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prevents us from putting a cpu on top of this thing and accidentally having it

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rock back and forth and chip off a corner or something like that now let's

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have a look at some of the cpu options that are available here uh we've got a

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core i7 7820hk that should actually be an overclockable

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chip i'm going to want to try that one for sure next up we've got a whatever

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this is and uh whatever this is so these

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are apparently a ql2x and a ql3x so

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these are engineering samples that never got formal names so one of them runs at

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2.4 gigahertz based 3.5 gigahertz boost and the other is 2.7 base 3.8 boost and

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apparently both of them will overclock in the range of 4.2 to 4.6 gigahertz and

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stay there so these are unlocked chips and you can get them for as little as 80

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to 90 dollars which i guess reveals the whole point of all of this which is that

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if you happen to have an old z170 motherboard or something similar and you

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want a whole lot of performance for not a lot of money this could be a very

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interesting way to do it the last chip that we've got here appears to be a 7700

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hq and this is a qualifying sample so most of the cpus we've got are not

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legitimate cpus that were pulled off of boards these are like

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qualifying and engineering samples so this this whole

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thing we're doing is super duper condoned by intel i'm sure i actually

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have no idea what's pre-installed in the board here so we'll find that out soon

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enough first i want to just make sure it's working at

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all so you're going to notice that i put a very very small amount of thermal

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compound on here that's because the dye

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is very very small we don't need to cover a whole lot of surface area now

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mr sue claims that with this mounting shim here you

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can actually install just a normal freaking

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intel stock cooler so i think that's the first thing we're going to try i'm going

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to be really interested to see what the bios reports about this thing

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we ready for the magic moment our rgb ram is lit up we basically have

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all the functionality we need now let's see if we can get into the bios

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here f2 delete this doesn't appear to list

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a cpu model anywhere in here

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yes so we are unlocked ah

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here we go oh so this is a 6700 hq why

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would that be unlocked that shouldn't be unlocked

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okay so why don't we throw one of our well first let's get into windows let's

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get some hardware info fired up here everything seems to be working

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relatively normally there it is 6700 hq running just like you would

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expect now as expected the cpu is running

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really cool like 19 to 22 degrees at

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idle let's go ahead and just throw a quick blender render at it and see

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how it looks after that even this

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pinner intel stock one on it under load

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we're looking at 45 degrees celsius so i think it's pretty safe for us to crank

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that multiplier up to the maximum it'll reach and let's see what our performance

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looks like as it is we're turboing to just 3.1 gigahertz on all course i think

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we can do better all right so as expected yes that 35

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multiplier is indeed the max single core

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turbo frequency of this particular chip we're just going to see if we can hit

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that all course now i have no experience trying to overclock intel's locked

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mobile chips even just to run all cores at the single core boost frequency

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because even if intel did allow this kind of behavior uh no mobile you know

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device manufacturer in their right mind would allow you to do that

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kind of thing because you would overwhelm the cooling and i guess i have

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no more experience than i did before because as you can see here it doesn't

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work we're still running at 3.1 but that's okay because between the

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qualifying samples the engineering samples and the straight up k series

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unlocked chips we can still do some overclocking today so i was actually in

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the middle of swapping cpus and i realized that we haven't actually seen

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under this thing yet so let's have a look at what if anything mr

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su has modified about this motherboard here

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yeah it looks like not really anything all they've done is remove the normal

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mounting plate here you know it would have that little that little lever and

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all that kind of stuff so they've just removed that and then the cpu

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is held in by the hold down plate or the shim up

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here this shim that came pre-installed seems to be like a pre-production one or

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something because it looks like it actually has some um some sanding marks on the top like

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they were trying to dial in the height just right so we're going to do

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away with that one we're going to use one of the one of the finished samples

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here uh what cpu to want to go for alex do you want to go for one of the mystery

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meat ones or do you want to go for the 7820 hk the expensive one pick a hand

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that one okay we're going with this one no just

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if it's a little looser i think than a real cpu i mean i shouldn't say

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it's not a real cpu it is a real cpu it's a little looser than one that you're

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supposed to put oh wow that's interesting uh okay so when i removed

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the mounting plate before

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i heard a plank that's what that was so here's our original back plate here

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so i'm going to have to hold that on while i install the cpu so it's a little

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jankier that's okay back in my starving student

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days i would have easily put up with this much jank to save like 100 bucks or

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whatever just a little bit of thermal compound

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now you really don't need a lot on these bare dyes look at that even the amount i put on

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before almost all gooped up around the edges

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there the good news though is that means that our mounting pressure was pretty darn

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spot on which means the height of their adapter is about right

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oh turned off turning back on probably memory training

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or something

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nothing yet so here's one thought remember how i

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said i really wasn't sure how tight it was supposed to be because there doesn't

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seem to be any kind of stopper to prevent you from going ham on this thing

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i'm gonna try backing it off a little bit and making sure that the tension feels

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kind of even you know okay let's try that

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so that didn't help what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna grab the other one the one

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that was in my right hand we're gonna give that one a shot

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ltt shirts also a thermal paste wipe

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lttstore.com to be clear i'm not actually recommending rubbing a shirt all over a

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cpu it's just my cameraman wants to go home on time

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okay bowser has been reset beautiful all

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right let's have a look at what we got here so this little puppy runs at 3.4

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right out of the box so what does that make it then

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not sure oh this is the boring one this one's

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locked okay swapping cpus again i gotta say the review sample ones really look

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like they've been through hell and back this one has what appears to be glue or

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something or thermal compound on the bottom of it so we had assumed the two green ones

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were like the weird engineering sample ones and then the blue one was not but

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that turned out to not be the case so what i'm really hoping is this is

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going to be the qx 2 engineering sample because that one's

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apparently good for 4.5 to 4.6 gigahertz

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um well that ain't a good sign i mean it posted hey

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oh interesting yes so mr sue's associate

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who sent us over these cpus had informed

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us that they might be a little touch and go when it comes to pci express gen 3.

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we might want to change our pci express

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slots to gen 2 to avoid some complications with the nvidia driver so

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we're going to go ahead and try that but first i want to know what chip this is

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and we don't know oh bummer i think this is the slower one of the two engineering

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samples ah man they're not labeled i'm having a hard time keeping track of

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which ones are which hey there we go we're in windows now

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heck yeah uh

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hacking

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you know what why don't we dial in the overclocking settings that they recommended here

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yay all right 4.2 gigahertz let's go ahead and do a

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quick uh stress test so it is a disadvantage to run at pci

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express gen 2 but not a huge one unless you're running

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some kind of like compute application on your graphics card now what is a problem

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is if you go to run a stress test and your system restarts kind of like that

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but uh yeah so that's engineering sample cpus for you

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all right so we're pretty close to water cooling the 78 20 hk but

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before we do that i want to try that one that wouldn't post one more time it's

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possible it just bricked itself while i was

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touching it it's also possible it just we didn't get a good mount so oh boy

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wow oh wow the the reset button isn't

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working wow hey

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oh it's off hey

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oh it's off so what we're going to do then is we're

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going to move on to our proper like real cpu our 7820hk which does happen to be

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the most expensive one out of the bundle but it's also the only one that is

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legitimately unlocked and overclockable

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something i haven't mentioned up until now is that motherboard compatibility

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with these cpus is not a guarantee there are a handful of chip sets including

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h310 z390 that would be compatible with 7th

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gen desktop chips but that will not work

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with these even with a modded bios and

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as i am now coming to if you want your motherboard to work even if it has a

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compatible chipset you will need a modified bios which mr su says will be

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available to download at some point

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code c1 again i wonder if it is to do with tightness

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in the socket maybe i overcooked it a little this time

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needs a fidget spinner we have a screwdriver

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hey nice

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system experience to boot failure blah blah blah load optimized defaults all

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right so we've got our 7820hk all our ram is detected everything is looking

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perfectly normal

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now we're on a2 okay so we did an isopropyl alcohol wipe

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on the bottom of the cpu just to make sure the contacts were all good and it

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does seem to be booting now

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come on baby come on

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just just boop max link speed okay so we're

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already at gen 2 i don't know why don't we try

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gen 3 then who knows i wonder if it has something to do with our m.2 storage

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let's just just try stuff

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hey we're in all right so now we're

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looking good let's make sure this bmw render runs at stock speed then we can

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overclock this puppy oh we'd be blending slow what is this

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what is this speed yuck

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screw it let's overclock it so challenge number one we're uh hitting right off

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the bat here is that our xc7 water block

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has pre-applied thermal compound in a uh

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on a much larger patch than we're going to need for our processor so we're going

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to open by just cleaning off all of our thermal compound and

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using something much smaller so what's cool about this mounting mechanism is

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that on both the bottom and the top it doesn't interfere with using a

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completely normal cooler in any way so i can just go ahead and

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chuck my water block on here and i should be pretty much good to go

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all right well i don't think this is either mine or alex's finest wiring or

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plumbing job but uh we're going for performance not

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looks here all right let's see if i got the

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plumbing the right way around

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that's what a non-lubricated pump bearing sounds like

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for the uninitiated get that air bubble out of there what are you doing

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dang it i got the radiator actually oh i got the whole thing the wrong way around

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well realistically it won't make much difference this thing is like a 45 watt

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cpu should we turn it around no we should probably turn it around i

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don't think you need to we should probably turn it around it's going through the cpu block backwards do

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you think it's going to make any difference a couple degrees

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you know what no we're doing it we're turning it around uh we didn't think

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this through okay so here's the plan yeah you're pulling pinch all plugged

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okay but what about this hole well that was fine okay ready

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three two one

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shoot

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oh that's so many trees

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okay now we're going the right way for the loop to actually

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bleed and the performance to be right that was worth it totally worth it

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so apparently this chip will do about 4.6 gigahertz 1.3 volts all cores let's

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see if it'll do it underwater wow

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sure didn't so we're stable in windows or

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we are booted to windows stable is a strong word we're at 4.4 gigahertz had

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to back it off a little bit let's go ahead and try a quick stress test and

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see if this is actually working are we thermal throttling or thermal

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throttling did you take the sticker off the bottom

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yes i did

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so you can see that our shim actually

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interfered with us getting good contact between our cpu block and our processor

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something a lot of people don't know is that thermal paste is actually not a

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great conductor of heat all it's meant to do is fill in like micro gaps between

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the the two pieces of metal so when you actually have like a thick

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layer of paste in between you get very very poor thermal transfer so i'm not

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100 sure how to solve this problem maybe we could see if it's down to

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manufacturing tolerances and try a different shim i mean even just to the

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eye it looks like it's a little below

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i wonder if it's relying on a cooler design kind of like the stock cooler you

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see here how the slug at the bottom is actually slightly raised compared to the

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aluminum fins that puts quite a lot of pressure corsair's water cooler by

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contrast is exactly flat so we remounted the cpu and

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it's not booting now honestly it doesn't matter anyway though because this is

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clearly very poor contact again what we're going to try and do is use

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the one that came pre-installed on the board okay so i'm just going to throw

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that on there and then see if we get oh that's so much better look at that okay

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i'm expecting much better results this time assuming it actually posts

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okay this is it this is go time

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and you know what we're gonna go straight to 4.6 gigahertz

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hey we got into windows this time turns out having a functioning cooler is a

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good idea how about that what do you what do you know

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4.6 gigahertz there it is interestingly

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one of our cpu cores isn't reporting temperatures let's fire up a blender

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render bloop and it's gone let's try that again

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and

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it's back no it's gone blender's just gone we're gonna we're gonna drop the

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frequency a little brb tornado let's see if our rendering program

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manages to stick around with uh and it's gone

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we're going to dial back the frequency okay

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4.5 gigahertz let's try that again hey

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that's more promising wow

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hottest core 47 degrees

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coolest core 25 degrees that's the thing about having a bear die is like very

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slight difference in the mount can make a really big difference performance

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looks like it's getting a very significant uptick look at this render

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chug along here this is great of course if what we were after was 3d

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rendering oh yeah we might need to do the graphics

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drivers here of course if we were going to be rendering all day and we had 150

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dollars to spend we would just go for uh core i5 8400 or something like that with

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six cores the only reason we'd want a quad core that's higher clocked would be

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for gaming so how's the experience there

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then well it's fine i guess

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uh we did have to drop the frequency down to 4.4 in order to get it

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completely stable in game but i think the overall problem that we're

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running into here is that the benefits

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of a solution like this simply do not outweigh the drawbacks at this time

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we're paying 150 bucks which means for less than that we could pick up a 6700k

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or something like that on ebay for even less or

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we are really rolling the dice as we experienced with those unnamed zero zero

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zero zero cpus where we're potentially getting a great value or we're ending up

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with something that's not going to be particularly usable for us now if you're

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the kind of person who likes to tinker you've got a motherboard that happens to

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be compatible with the bios mod lying around anyway and you just want to like

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have some fun and maybe take something that is currently non-functioning and

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get a decent little gaming rig out of it for 70 or 80 bucks with a weird cpu

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upgrade hey recommended but

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it just isn't the kind of thing that personally i would daily drive and i

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think alex is on the same page over there yeah

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