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Thank you all so much for your help - I'll try this when I get back home and let you know how it goes!

I think the lowest I've gotten it at 1.6GHz is 0.705 V VCore. I actually really like speed step - I don't really know why you'd turn it off. Maybe if you need some crazy fast response times - but I've never run into a situation where the normal throttling up/down hasn't been fast enough.

Yes, this is true. I did forget that the die size is actually quite a bit smaller than the IHS. Then throw on the huge heatsink (and the two fans running full-blast), and it definitely makes sense that it is cooler.

Ah I see. Interesting that such a high temperature differential (fin temperature to core temperature) can exist when essentially it's all metal (and some TIM) connecting everything. How can the Noctua heatsink plate surface be cool enough to touch, when the core (and CPU package) temperatures...

Hello there, I have a rather odd issue, but I'm sure someone must have done it at some point or another. I recently built a new system and was waiting for my SSD to arrive to use it as my primary partition. In the mean time, I installed Windows 7 on a new Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD to...

Oooh! You are making it all the more tempting to do it! I think I'll hold off for now - I see no discernible need to run my CPU past its stock frequencies at the moment. I'm quite happy with 3.9GHz @ 0.984V Vcc (under load with a peak core temperature of 59ºC after 5 cycles of LinX)...

Yeah - I haven't de-lidded it yet. Based on your numbers, I may do it soon, though! Regarding fine-tuning the overclock, does it make more sense to increase LLC for a given voltage, or to bump the voltage with no LLC? For example, I was getting BSODs at 1.225V VCore with LLC set to medium...

Hello again, So I finally got around to installing my NH-D14 and I noticed that my load temps (for stock settings - 3.9GHz turbo) are about 10-15ºC lower than with the stock Intel CPU heatsink. I pushed my overclock to 4.5GHz with a 1.25V VCore and LLC set to Ultra high (75%). With this...

In fact, the reason why de-lidding gives you better temperatures is because you reduce the space between the die and the IHS (provided you do it properly) - not the typically assumed reason of the stock thermal paste being poor. Check this post for more details on what I mean.

Oh I see - that clarifies things. Strange that Intel would allow this either way. Yeah, I just ran some numbers with Linx - and my stock's are pretty much matching yours. I don't think I can get down to as low of a voltage as you can though. Thanks again Idontcare!

Wow, those are some pretty stupendous numbers. I'm very tempted de-lid at some point, but my build is still new - so I think I'll hold off for now. I guess the temperatures without delidding/lapping would be about 10-20ºC higher? I suppose a custom water-cooling loop would be an alternative to...

Yes, I was afraid of this scenario. I guess the load/idle voltages don't scale linearly (i.e a stable offset for load Vcore is not a stable offset for idle Vcore). I see your temperatures are fairly high - even with a multiplier of 3.9X @ 0.998 V. Does this mean that AIDA64 is not a good...

Hello there, I'm new here on the forums (and new to overclocking too as I just built a new PC a few weeks ago) and I'd just like to say thank you very much to the OP and other members for this great cache of useful information. I have a question question regarding overclocking the following...