So I've change the cpu cooler to a custom liquid agent cooling loop. At first , it may seem that that the former cooler may still have a punch in it for attaining higher all-core clocks due to changing the VDDR Cpu curent capability to 110% in the bios yelded stability, therefore I will investigate later how much further it will be able to tame it , come its time to be mounted back.
Anyhow, after coming across this newfound ''arguing over the internet''
Intel lying about their CPUs' TDP: who's not surprised? | Page 10 | TechPowerUp Forums I simply went ahead a couple of days back and ''diverted funds'' form my ''beer fund'' to get a clamp meter.
Measurements done on both the bundles of wires , +VDC and com. The lowest figure of the two was measured on the Negative(ground /common) witch means there is current from other ground connections to the motherboard from the powersupply, thus implying the GND plane of the ATX 12v and EPS 12v are connected with be it the ATX or trough the PCIe 8 pin power or both(just did a quick check , the difference of current is flowing trough the Graphics card , 1.45A ).
1.45A(PCIe)+8.29A(ATX&EPS)=9.74A (trough the GND)
~300mA(PCIe) + 9.48A(ATX&EPS)=9.78A (trough the Positive) [~ because of polling rate is fast and I picked the higher discernable value]
Clock me silly, its the total power draw not just the CPU but the CPU VRM as well.
