Recent content by ToastyTim

Good for the consumer that's for sure. I'd be very interested in the new Ryzens but when I built my current rig last year I told myself I'd be keeping it for 5 years.

I guess I'm just a little bitter than I spent the extra money on a K CPU, Z motherboard, and CPU cooler only to get a garbage chip that I end up running stock.

So I'm convinced that my 8700k has an absolutely brutal TIM application under the IHS. I was running it at 4.7GHz all cores with 1.250v and getting 86c in RealBench after 30 mins w/ a Kraken x62 cooler. After 30 minutes on stock frequencies at the same voltage, I got a max of 72c which is much...