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Awww, come on. 5GHz is somewhat conservative in this case. Try to find how far you can go before temperatures explode. Also what are the max overclocks at 1.5V and 1.6V. That would have been interesting !!!

but I want it stable. and I need the performance. this is my current gaming rig's cpu... any less and it will crash.

Dayum. I run 4.6 GHz at 1.425V. Now I think that voltage is way too high ._.

Hi guys I am planning my new (small) build. Going for this beauty of a motherboard (asus maximus iv impact) and this cooler Does anybody have an idea is there will be clearance-issues because of the risers? Changing the orientation could be impossible do to RAM-heatsinks (also since i am planing an going fanless on the cooler, i want the cooler facing the airflow. thx

Hello Linus I've just finished watching the latest WAN show, and just like the earlier episodes intels breakthroughs in the field of powerconsumption just got waved aside, as if it was totally irrelevant. If you haven't known yet: You have an international audience. There are people living outside of water-fall-canada and sunshine-arabia where energy, especially electricity, cost a fortune. Just to give you an idea, in Germany the prices for electricity have doubled since the year 2000, currently hanging around an average of 27 euro-cent / KWh which is around 40cents USD/KWh, which is like 500% of your cost of electricity (May be wrong, just did a quick googling). Years ago most everyone let computers run for hours, because electricity was affordable. NOW i know noone anymore who lets their computers run. I myself turn my computer on and off severell times a day because my idle-power demand is quite high. When all i do is browsing the interwebs i mainly use my phone/tablet, because they need a 'metric butt ton' less power. I've been decreasing my used KWh the last 3 years significantly, but still my electricity bill is just stagnating/increasing slowly. I can understand if you just what to ignore that, since it isn't effecting you, but there are also positive things being triggered because of that. Battery-life-time mainly raised by developing less power-consumptiv components, not that much by build better batteries. And who doesnt want a Laptop or a phone the last at least a (work)day? So please Linus, If you haven't got anything good to say about, just dont comment about that at all. You have way too much influence your viewers opinions, to just blow that off. Thanks for everyone who kept reading so far. Happy Threadbashing... kind regards a non canadian