Intel Core i7-5960X De-Lidded Haswell-E Uses Soldered TIM

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/29/2014 10:21 AM | source: | 53 comment(s)

For its most powerful Haswell-E based processors Intel will use Soldered TIM based on a strong epoxy. OCDrift discovered that when they removed (read forced off) the heatspreader. Beneath the adhesive layer that secure the IHS to the package, Intel soldered the chip’s die to the IHS with a strong epoxy.

As OCDrift reports; this is a good news for overclockers, simply because soldering the CPU die to the IHS allows for much better heat conductivity than if the gap was to be filled with thermal interface material (TIM) like we’ve seen on the Core i7-3770K, 4770K, and 4790K.

Haswell-E is expected to be released in September 2014, and the rumoured specifications suggested that the top model namely the Core i7-5960X will have 8 cores, 16 threads and clocked at 3.0GHz with a 3.3GHz Turbo peak.

Now the question begs, who the heck did they get that processor from ? :)

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Ven0m
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#4884028 Posted on: 07/29/2014 03:40 PM

3/3.3GHz = nothing great for games.

I hope that per-clock performance will be better than with 3770/4770.

Solfaur
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#4884085 Posted on: 07/29/2014 04:25 PM

3/3.3GHz = nothing great for games.

I hope that per-clock performance will be better than with 3770/4770.

I hope so too, that and the 2x16 PCI 3.0 + DDR4 (not sure how much that helps in games) with the middle Haswell-E 6 core could be a decent deal, if you also have 2 powerfull GPUs that is.

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#4884105 Posted on: 07/29/2014 04:53 PM

I'm eyeing the 6 core for exactly that reason. Balance between better multithreaded performance & CPU frequency.

PieEyedPiper
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#4884155 Posted on: 07/29/2014 06:10 PM

http://www.s-bond.com/blog/2013/08/27/epoxy-bond-soldering/

I'm not sure I want to trade JB Weld for real solder but I guess it's better than nothing.
That epoxy, as thick as it is, doesn't exactly appear to be sparkling with silver.

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#4884176 Posted on: 07/29/2014 06:36 PM

Even though the chip is a gimped Xeon chip it is still a step in the right direction. Heck we could see the standard non enthusiast i series Cpus go back to their SB routes.

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