I was lucky enough to find an I7 4980HQ selling for $400 through Amazon, and I found a dirt cheap $50 reference board to fit it. I also happen to not need my school desktop at the moment and thought I'd try to see how far I could push a mobile CPU when it's being cooled by something capable like my Hyper 212 Evo with some Gelid Extreme. It turns out mounting the cooler on Intel's reference board is, ah, not possible (not really surprised. So, me being me, I propped up the cooler, ran twine throu
