DanielMiddletown

Good luck finding a game that utilizes 8 cores.

You can slow down the fans in Corsair link with manual curve and perhaps increase pump speed to full. 25-30% of fan speed is the lowest the fans will go. Do you have fan speed tied to CPU or radiator temp? EDIT: Also download Aida64 on try to run FPU for 30min. Then you will how far the temps go. If it starts to throttle then there must be a defect with H115i or bad paste application / fittings tightness.

Always stay right. In traffic, office hallway, elevators, on escalator - basically everywhere. That`s the main rule of life... I live in Austria and they are twice as anal in here. If you follow this simple rule, you are considered German.

For FPS drops I switched GPU to performance mode in Nvidia settings. Seems that WW2 is still quite unevenly optimized. For 1080Ti @ 4K in my case. Large fire effects drag the FPS down to 30(i have V-Sync enabled). Otherwise it`s quite stable and solid 60fps. Deem... some of those cinematics feel really realistic. Opening in window does not bother me much, because Ctrl+Enter work for me every time(if i remember to close Teamviewer).

Do you have Teamviewer running? This causes all kinds ofs issues. EDIT: I got the same issues now. Along with massive FPS drops during cinematic cutscenes.

Next step of my build requires a vastly overengineered German tool. You got to hand it to Roman, he sure knows how to German. I should get some booze and courage and get on with it. Update day2: At the moment I can report about 17C drop in temperature, while running Aida64 FPU. For final results I should let AS5 set in few weeks. In my experience it takes some burning in for AS5. As for deliding, the procedure was quite simple. I was amazed how much force the screw required. It almost felt like it all gonna bend. But eventually, after few tries a "pop" happened and IHS came loose. I cleaned the old TIM and the IHS from silicone, applied Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut and put the IHS back. I did not clue the IHS back. After that AS5 went between CPU and cooler.

As 7820x owner I would also recommend you to wait a bit longer. Although the performance difference in syntetics is ~2x, it won`t give you any actual benefits at the moment. I started my built basicly from scratch, so i did not have to wonder about reasonable benefit gains and 7820x seemed to have the biggest headroom/budget ratio. I`m pretty sure that 4790 will be considered adequate for at least two years and delidded "K" even longer. Presuming that motherboards last that long.

The only reason I use the cable is that in Corsair link I can tie fan speed with radiator temp, which gives a lot smoother fan speed. When using CPU package temps in MB fan controller, the fans constantly go up and down.

CPU: Intel i7-7820x GPU:Asus Strix 1080Ti Average FPS: 122.5 Score: 5126

I`m currently in the middle of Fans swap. Corsair original fans seemed too loud for me, so I turned to Noctua. It came out that Noctua is a local producer. For H115i I now have 2x NF-P14s redux-1500 PWM and for the case 5x NF-P14s redux-1200 PWM. Now i can run my system almost completly silent in idle and with small work load. Three of the case fan even turn off during idle. What realy grinds my gear is the Corsair link cable that does not fit the picture(see below). The wire a huge connector and no proper shielding. So it covers some "ROG" cristal and stops working when I try to cablemanage it near the RAM. Has anyone found some better cables?

Hopefully my Skylake-X delid goes better...

I think, perhaps Linus had a bit bigger idea in mind. If a channel with so many viewers would say "Yes you should go and cut your CPU with a razor and replace the TIM and it would have great improvement on the temperature", we would have a huge amount of broken CPU-s. People are idiots(including me). Today it`s quite a different story because there are a lot of "Turn&Pop" delid tools and tutorials available. With X299, Intel should have included delid tool in the box...

Day 3 update: Managed to get a nice and stable 4.4Ghz @ 1.120V. This is enough till delid. Meanwhile my 1080Ti Strix arrived. I have to say that it`s a bit faster than 1060 Strix, that I had as temporary replacement. System is now built(exept 2xWB black, yet to come) and cablemanaged, so now I´m ready to tackle Witcher 3 for the first time...

So it`s confirmed. It is called "Rainbow Dash" from now on. My 3yo daughter said that it shall be it and no further arguments aren`t allowed. Crap.. Day 2 update: Received the case today. Also did some initial overclocking to see what the 7820x can handle. Managed to get 4.8Ghz with 1.275V (see image below). With this clock it managed to complete Passmark CPU test. Also got 4.9Ghz with AVX "-1" and 1.295V to log into Windows, but then in hung. As i`m not really sure at the moment what the safe voltages are for x299, I won`t go any further. Once i order the "Delid Die Mate X", i can come back to this. Right now i`m stresstesting "daily goal" 4.5Ghz to find the lowerst possible voltage. As i`m writing this Aida64 is stressing with 1.12V, with average temp of 76C.

Delivery guy took his time.. but atleast most of the stuff is now arrived. As you can see there is GTX 1060 on the picture. This is actually a Christmas present for my little bother. I`ll be "borrowing" this until my GTX 1080 Ti finally arrives (hopefully in a week). The case and extra 2 sticks of RAM will arrive tomorrow. Let`s see if i can get it to run tonight, on the table. Day 1 update: Got it to work on mb box quite quickly(see image on the first post). No problems with anything really. DId a simple set-up in Asus BIOS and somehow the 7820x goes all the way to 4.6Ghz. During Aida64 stresstest temps go to around 65C, but with short FPU test the temps went over 100 and clocks down to 4.3Ghz. I set temp CPU temp limit to 90C, untill it`s on the box and in open air. I see delid coming soon... What supprised me was the power consumtion. 7820x together with GTX 1060 consumed 510W from the wall. I wonder what happens if I start propely OC-ing and put my 1080 Ti in. System is extremly quiet during normal use and gaming. Even when the fans are like 30cm from my ears. Today the case should arrive, so i`ll spend the whole evening cable managing.