AntonyL

@Bitter that Aliexpress metal lump on top looks like aluminium and the one I got is pretty well scratched too.
 

 

 
Not sure how it's stuck on, some glue around the outside of the die perhaps. No contact at the sides. Thermals are terrible so will have to look at removing it somehow and going bear die. Other than that it seems okay. Mainboard does not have microcode update for it and can increase CPU ratio above 46x but only if left unpatched (only tried down to ver 0xe. Better perhaps to use the BCLK straps which work with microcode patches. Maximum power / time limits are reported as unlimited or about 4kW / 46 days. eDRAM seems to adjust but need to test if it is actually working.
 

The internet is full of too much pessimism, I posted an article on toms hardware about this chip and had a couple of guys over there basically warning me about things that could go wrong.

The bottom line is that this product is cool, and if you can get it for the right price is well worth the buy if you are on a budget and know a little DIY to get the heat sink on top of the chip. All the guys have done who put this chip together is mound it to a PCB that converts a BGA chip to fit into an LGA 1150 socket, pretty cool and barley legal.

Would you guys like to see some benchmarks?

You will be limited by the TDP of the chip, the best OC I've seen so far is 4.6Ghz - not sure if that was on air or water though, probably air with a decent cooler. I had some weirdness around my first PCIe slot on my board, although my board is the ASUS Q87 so you should have some better luck. The board that the Chinese sellers are recommending use the Z87 chip set.

I'm not clued up on overclocking Intel chips, i'll post some screen shots tonight of what my BIOS looks like to give you an idea of what the options are. Mine might be more limited than those on your board though.

Yea, should work with any H81 series motherboard and like wise for the RAM, I'm having some issues with my GPU at the moment, I don't think its related to the CPU or any hardware at the moment but once I've figured it out i'll post an update.

Hi guys, just thought I would share my findings. I recently just purchased an i7 4980HQ, I’ve attached some pictures. Been back and forth with the guy I got it from, he brought a few back from China with him - he says it can be clocked to 4.6ghz with the right mobo. Reading more about the chip it's self it can turbo up to 3.8ghz on all for cores and 4.0ghz on a single core by default (don't really understand how all that works if i''m being honest).
 
I decided to bite the bullet and paid £120 for it, I feel it’s worth it. My current system I’ve had for years now that is still rocking a phenom is x4 965 it starting to struggle - was looking for a cheap upgrade. Plan on buying a second hand board etc and transferring my DDR3 ram over to the new system. If anything this product is kind of unique too in a way, I like the jimmy rigging idea of it all!
 
Would be really interesting to see how they put these together and how hard it might be, done some re flowing of 360 CPUs in my time, and it sounds like it could be a similar process in some ways.
 

Hi guys, just thought I would share my findings. I recently just purchased an i7 4980HQ, I’ve attached some pictures. Been back and forth with the guy I got it from, he brought a few back from China with him - he says it can be clocked to 4.6ghz with the right mobo. Reading more about the chip it's self it can turbo up to 3.8ghz on all for cores and 4.0ghz on a single core by default (don't really understand how all that works if i''m being honest).
 
I decided to bite the bullet and paid £120 for it, I feel it’s worth it. My current system I’ve had for years now that is still rocking a phenom is x4 965 it starting to struggle - was looking for a cheap upgrade. Plan on buying a second hand board etc and transferring my DDR3 ram over to the new system. If anything this product is kind of unique too in a way, I like the jimmy rigging idea of it all!
 
Would be really interesting to see how they put these together and how hard it might be, done some re flowing of 360 CPUs in my time, and it sounds like it could be a similar process in some ways.