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Bought this the other day for £700 used and never delidded, I received it yesterday.

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1.8v input voltage, 1.21v core, HT off, 4.7ghz
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Seemingly it's a reasonable overclocker, however I can't be certain until I've delidded and upgraded the cooling solution presumably the end of this year or next year.

I'd like to find one of these already de-lidded if possible.. That said it'll have to wait as £700 would pay the mortgage for nearly a month and a half.... :laugh:

Looks a decent overclocker :) I would like to get my X299 Dark out and running and this is the CPU of choice for me... One day :)
 
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Got them now! All working so far.
Bought £40 for the lot

Corsair k65 lux RGB keyboard
Corsair MM800 RGB POLARIS MAT
CORSAIR SCIMITAR RGB OPTICAL MOUSE
CORSAIR VOID PRO 7.1 GAMING HEADSET WITH DOLBY

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Got them now! All working so far.
Bought £40 for the lot

Corsair k65 lux RGB keyboard
Corsair MM800 RGB POLARIS MAT
CORSAIR SCIMITAR RGB OPTICAL MOUSE
CORSAIR VOID PRO 7.1 GAMING HEADSET WITH DOLBY

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nice set nice price :)

also for me, since the Roccat Alumic is great for speed and a bit small now ... i wanted a bit more "mousepad real estate" (well the Alumic has a "control side but that's a gimmick don't feel any difference at all on opposite to a cloth mousepad)

so, Asus Cerberus in sale : 9.50chf a real steal
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same depth as my Silverstone RV01 (850x300) i have under and mhhh 450mm less his width (400x300)

actually i wanted that one (not discounted at almost 25chf instead of 9.50 would've been idiotic) or the new one (yeah i know i am a fashion victim ... but they are sober enough ) but it was either too small or too big in any of the 3 size available, priced higher or not in stock
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I'd like to find one of these already de-lidded if possible.. That said it'll have to wait as £700 would pay the mortgage for nearly a month and a half.... :laugh:

Looks a decent overclocker :) I would like to get my X299 Dark out and running and this is the CPU of choice for me... One day :)
One day you'll get one, delidded too would be nice, after all the temps on this thing is no joke, I'm already saving for a new cooler :roll:
 

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Benchmark Scores I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(
One day you'll get one, delidded too would be nice, after all the temps on this thing is no joke, I'm already saving for a new cooler :roll:

Will you be going for air, AIO or custom water? :)

I'm not surprised they are a little warm. Would you consider that to be a good price for the CPU? Looking on Ebay and such like, they are quite scarely priced....
 
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Will you be going for air, AIO or custom water? :)
I'm currently on a silent loop 280mm, I'm currently looking at the external radiator route (MO-RA3 or car radiator).
Would you consider that to be a good price for the CPU? Looking on Ebay and such like, they are quite scarely priced....
At £700? I got a bargain pretty much, pricing can be pretty poor but don't pay more than £800 for one. Not to mention I think I got quite lucky on this one, it was ran stock since purchased and never delidded, it also seems to be a good bin after 4.7 HT off 1.21v is all fully stable - most 7980xe's seem to use 1.3v+ for those clocks apparently, I'd love to see HT on stable with this after all it's rock solid stable in games so far but I'm afraid the AIO will definitely not be up to the additional thermal output.
 

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I'm currently on a silent loop 280mm, I'm currently looking at the external radiator route (MO-RA3 or car radiator).

At £700? I got a bargain pretty much, pricing can be pretty poor but don't pay more than £800 for one. Not to mention I think I got quite lucky on this one, it was ran stock since purchased and never delidded, it also seems to be a good bin after 4.7 HT off 1.21v is all fully stable - most 7980xe's seem to use 1.3v+ for those clocks apparently, I'd love to see HT on stable with this after all it's rock solid stable in games so far but I'm afraid the AIO will definitely not be up to the additional thermal output.

Ah I'd have guessed you'd need some form of bigger cooler for that beast. I guess stock speeds with an AIO might be ok with the HT turned on? Be interesting to find out :) Definitely a bigger rad and better config would help the temps there :) I've never really bothered turning off HT, always tested my CPUs with it on..
I guess also the ambient temp your in will have a lot to do with it as well as the surface area of the rad you buy as I'm sure you know :) I do wonder if there's a point of diminishing returns on the size of the rad tho?

I paid a little more when I bought this 5960X I have. It was a slightly cherry picked CPU, managed 4.5Ghz @ 1.12vcore, stable and it worked :) That was with Windows 7, Windows 10 seems to put a lot more on the CPU which is where the volts needed to go up a bit..
At the time I paid £1000 which was about £100 over a random CPU, something that I'd not hold back doing again should I be able to buy the 7980XE. I don't like the idea of spending all that cash and finding out it's a dud... I pay a bit more to get something that definitely going to hit those clocks, I'm very happy :) Learnt that the hard way with a QX9650 .... lol Still, I'd love to grab one at some point :)
 
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I guess stock speeds with an AIO might be ok with the HT turned on? Be interesting to find out :)
Definitely, but what's the fun in then what I can turn off HT, push clocks without any issue and be quite a nice bit faster than a stock 7980xe with HT on? ;)
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You really pay for what you get, and i opted for the absolute best.

Im not disappointed at all in fact i am so impressed by the sound quality and most important in-game performance.

BUT i still need a better soundcard for them.



 
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You really pay for what you get, and i opted for the absolute best.

Im not disappointed at all in fact i am so impressed by the sound quality and most important in-game performance.

BUT i still need a better soundcard for them.



I dont know if your looking for sound effects, but there are some reasonable dacs/amps out there if sound effects are not important to you.

I dont know if your looking for sound effects, but there are some reasonable dacs/amps out there if sound effects are not important to you.
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You really pay for what you get, and i opted for the absolute best.
according to that theory ... a Samsung flagship or a Apple flagship, if they were worth their price, would be the absolute best around ... my Pocophone F1 beg to differ...
(although can be read " you have to pay for getting something" :laugh: ) nothing is absolute.

but for Sennheiser it's partially true with 3 to 4* reviews they are in the top mhhhh 10, but 250chf as regular price ouch .... (although unlike Razer they are almost worth their price)
i got one in auction on ricardo. ch for 100chf pitted it against my current Roccat Kave (stereo) 86'ish chf ... the Kave stayed the GSP got sold back (higher price ... the one that sold it to me was more reasonable than me, 3 day auction duration at 85 start price was a wrong move ... Sennheiser is like Intel or Nvidia ... you put them on auction with enough display time and people go crazy over the auction )
not a soundcard issue ;) used them with a Fiio Q1 Mark 2 DAC and a Fiio X5 III DAC/DAP for testing

if i had to change my Kave i would go for a https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/product/logitech-g-pro-x-gaming-headsets-11492508 price is reasonable, design is sober, sound quality is excellent :) and also a top 10 worthy judging by the reviews.

it's just like for IEM ... i have a dual driver and 1 balanced armature 12'ish chf TRN V60 with 2.5mm balanced cable upgrade versus a 119chf Fiio FA1 single balanced armature IEM well the 3D printed shell of the FA1 is astounding the sound is great but not really 107chf greater than the V60, well Fiio is technically cheap, when you compare them to Westone, RHA, Audio Technica or Audeze (even the 700chf Astel&Kern Diana) but still sound great compared to their respective offer (price not equivalent ofc )


still, an excellent headset although a little bit overpriced (70 to 100 chf less and that would be acceptable)
 
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Kept the m.2 ssd's,one SATA ssd, the keyboard,mouse, speakers and the headset from my previous PC.
 

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Downgraded my PC to the below. It took a while to get everything right but now I am happy with my current setup:

MB:ASRock B450 Steel Legend-90£
CPU:Ryzen 5 3600X-219£
Cooler:Corsair H100x-76£
RAM:16GB Patriot Viper Steel 3600mhz XMP-96£
GPU:XFX 5700XT Thicc II-410£
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PSU:CoolerMaster MasterWatt 650W-61£
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Kept the m.2 ssd's,one SATA ssd, the keyboard,mouse, speakers and the headset from my previous PC.
well, post some test results with this video card...
 
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You really pay for what you get, and i opted for the absolute best.

Im not disappointed at all in fact i am so impressed by the sound quality and most important in-game performance.

BUT i still need a better soundcard for them.
No, you really don't. They're rated at 28 Ohm, even onboard should handle it without a problem. Unless you have a real crappy onboard with poor mic input. In that case get a proper soundcard. DAC/AMPs with mic in don't come cheap.
 
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No, you really don't. They're rated at 28 Ohm, even onboard should handle it without a problem. Unless you have a real crappy onboard with poor mic input. In that case get a proper soundcard. DAC/AMPs with mic in don't come cheap.
Oh ya forgot about the mike problem when I made the suggestion for the dac/amp. I don't use a mic so I didnt think about that. Should of though.
 
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Downgraded my PC to the below. It took a while to get everything right but now I am happy with my current setup:

MB:ASRock B450 Steel Legend-90£
CPU:Ryzen 5 3600X-219£
Cooler:Corsair H100x-76£
RAM:16GB Patriot Viper Steel 3600mhz XMP-96£
GPU:XFX 5700XT Thicc II-410£
Case:CoolerMaster H500-105£
PSU:CoolerMaster MasterWatt 650W-61£
Monitor:AOC AGON 322QC4-350£

Kept the m.2 ssd's,one SATA ssd, the keyboard,mouse, speakers and the headset from my previous PC.
How's that RAM working out? Curious to see how far you can push it, considering I can easily get an extra 200MHz out of mine at tighter timings than spec.
Also, that's a downgrade?
 
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