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- Mar 7, 2008
(note title has been edited to reflect that I will be looking at Broadwell here)
With my main system fitted with the EK loop, I now have a spare H110i GTX and thought I'd use that for some OC fun. I just got another case which it will actually take that cooler. I was going to move my i5-6600k system into it (already on high end air), but then remembered I also have an i5-5675C I never really pushed due to the small cooler I have on it. The "problem" I had with the 5675C was that the stock core clocks were never high enough to stress the L4 cache which is what I really wanted to do... so this seems an ideal opportunity. The possible drawback is, as I originally did this as a micro-ATX build, would the Asus Z97M-plus board be a potential limit? I also have a Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H in another system, although also as micro-ATX I'm guessing that wouldn't necessarily be any better.
I think I talked myself into doing Broadwell as Skylake is so common it just doesn't sound as interesting!
With my main system fitted with the EK loop, I now have a spare H110i GTX and thought I'd use that for some OC fun. I just got another case which it will actually take that cooler. I was going to move my i5-6600k system into it (already on high end air), but then remembered I also have an i5-5675C I never really pushed due to the small cooler I have on it. The "problem" I had with the 5675C was that the stock core clocks were never high enough to stress the L4 cache which is what I really wanted to do... so this seems an ideal opportunity. The possible drawback is, as I originally did this as a micro-ATX build, would the Asus Z97M-plus board be a potential limit? I also have a Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H in another system, although also as micro-ATX I'm guessing that wouldn't necessarily be any better.
I think I talked myself into doing Broadwell as Skylake is so common it just doesn't sound as interesting!
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