So after coming back from Pak, having setup and tested everything, I thought I'd finally make this thread now. Some pics and performance numbers:
i7 4770K:
Delidded, cleaned up and TIM replaced with CLU:
ASUS Z87 Deluxe:
Some close-ups of the mobo and cpu:
So first boot with a stock cooler was a success, so nothing was DOA gladly:
As you can see, the watercooling pipes were all out of order and the actual installation was fixing that part, so initially:
Got some water out as it had been sitting there for 3-months, motherboard installed:
Then the Raystorm installed:
And then I was mostly good with everything else:
Almost five days to my order placement, the beast MO-RA3 with Acetal feet arrived. This is pretty much the biggest high-quality rad that money can buy. The packaging was quite decent:
36 screws for 9 fans:
The Acetal feet specifically for this type of rad:
And the same day, later on, I got my fans. These are 140mm Prolimatech Blue Vortex, lets just say, one of a kind from this company:
I also got an XSPC temp sensor that tells me the temp of the distilled water in the loop:
And here's it in action:
So I hooked up the feet was ready to install it in the loop:
Fans installed:
Connected the fans temporarily with just 7 connections as I ran out of them, but the proper connectors would be arriving on monday:
So after a week of tweaking, I found out the OC potential of my 4770K and as like many, it's not too good. However, 4.3Ghz @ 1.168V does it for me 24/7, temp-wise and performance-wise. Batch no. is L311B203.
4.4Ghz isn't even stable at 1.216V and as the next VCore bump is 1.232V, I thought that 4.3Ghz @ 1.168V obviously scaled better and was good enough. Bench-wise, I could easily runs benches at 4.6Ghz @ 1.248V. 4.7Ghz on the other hand needed a little above 1.350V just for benches, stability was another game.
I guess coming down the line, this 4770K is the first chip that I couldn't do 5Ghz with. By that I mean the following in series:
When Sandy came out, max frequencies, 2500K @ 5.2Ghz (air)
Ivy's retail at release day 3570K @ 5.3Ghz (water)
Ivy 3770K @ 5.067Ghz (water)
And as for Haswell, I really didn't bother going above 4.7Ghz for obviously reasons. And yeah, Both Ivys and this Haswell have been delidded. @max007, Haswell is a lot more responsive than Ivy ever was. It's faster, it's really good on wattage and that's what makes it worth it.
As for the memory, I was able to take my stock 2133Mhz Ripjaws Z (4 sticks) up to 2800Mhz @ 12-14-14-35 2c (1.675V). Just to mention that these aren't ordinary Ripjaws Z, but they rather came with Hynix CFR's in the production of 2012. I can easily bench at 12-14-12-35, haven't tried any lower. As it wouldn't boot at the next IMC multiplier i.e. 2933Mhz, may it be 1.78V or 15-15-15-45 clock speeds, so I knew that this was CPU bound. The max I could get was 2832Mhz and that's about it.
As for straps, the 125Mhz was the only one that I could boot on, 167Mhz or any other combination didn't work no matter what I tried.
A pic of what I'm talking about. The geekbench run is at 4.7Ghz:
Thanks for looking.
i7 4770K:
Delidded, cleaned up and TIM replaced with CLU:
ASUS Z87 Deluxe:
Some close-ups of the mobo and cpu:
So first boot with a stock cooler was a success, so nothing was DOA gladly:
As you can see, the watercooling pipes were all out of order and the actual installation was fixing that part, so initially:
Got some water out as it had been sitting there for 3-months, motherboard installed:
Then the Raystorm installed:
And then I was mostly good with everything else:
Almost five days to my order placement, the beast MO-RA3 with Acetal feet arrived. This is pretty much the biggest high-quality rad that money can buy. The packaging was quite decent:
36 screws for 9 fans:
The Acetal feet specifically for this type of rad:
And the same day, later on, I got my fans. These are 140mm Prolimatech Blue Vortex, lets just say, one of a kind from this company:
I also got an XSPC temp sensor that tells me the temp of the distilled water in the loop:
And here's it in action:
So I hooked up the feet was ready to install it in the loop:
Fans installed:
Connected the fans temporarily with just 7 connections as I ran out of them, but the proper connectors would be arriving on monday:
So after a week of tweaking, I found out the OC potential of my 4770K and as like many, it's not too good. However, 4.3Ghz @ 1.168V does it for me 24/7, temp-wise and performance-wise. Batch no. is L311B203.
4.4Ghz isn't even stable at 1.216V and as the next VCore bump is 1.232V, I thought that 4.3Ghz @ 1.168V obviously scaled better and was good enough. Bench-wise, I could easily runs benches at 4.6Ghz @ 1.248V. 4.7Ghz on the other hand needed a little above 1.350V just for benches, stability was another game.
I guess coming down the line, this 4770K is the first chip that I couldn't do 5Ghz with. By that I mean the following in series:
When Sandy came out, max frequencies, 2500K @ 5.2Ghz (air)
Ivy's retail at release day 3570K @ 5.3Ghz (water)
Ivy 3770K @ 5.067Ghz (water)
And as for Haswell, I really didn't bother going above 4.7Ghz for obviously reasons. And yeah, Both Ivys and this Haswell have been delidded. @max007, Haswell is a lot more responsive than Ivy ever was. It's faster, it's really good on wattage and that's what makes it worth it.
As for the memory, I was able to take my stock 2133Mhz Ripjaws Z (4 sticks) up to 2800Mhz @ 12-14-14-35 2c (1.675V). Just to mention that these aren't ordinary Ripjaws Z, but they rather came with Hynix CFR's in the production of 2012. I can easily bench at 12-14-12-35, haven't tried any lower. As it wouldn't boot at the next IMC multiplier i.e. 2933Mhz, may it be 1.78V or 15-15-15-45 clock speeds, so I knew that this was CPU bound. The max I could get was 2832Mhz and that's about it.
As for straps, the 125Mhz was the only one that I could boot on, 167Mhz or any other combination didn't work no matter what I tried.
A pic of what I'm talking about. The geekbench run is at 4.7Ghz:
Thanks for looking.
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