Going to find out which one overclocks the best.
I won't explain this distribution (nor the axes scale or units), but ideally you want to be as far to the right and as far down as possible. It's an interesting exponential correlation, and I'm not sure which axis matters more so that's what I'm here to find out (ie would you trade off being further to the right if it means you're further up?). Yellow marks where my current 5960X sits at. The orange dots are the three 5960X's I'll be physically testing. Green is just a random subset of data so I could visualize what's going on within the solid wall of blue.
I'll give you a few minutes to figure out what's wrong with this configuration.
Nope you're wrong. The correct answer is I can't remove the CPU waterblock without removing the entire board from the case. Well...I could I guess drain the CPU loop and detach the tube connecting the VRM block, but I don't really trust being able to get a 100% drain and not have enough still in the block that spills on the mobo. So yay for giant pain in the ass having to remove the entire board to swap test a new cpu!
So I'm waiting until this weekend. Plus I have a cheapo GT 210 in the mail so I can unplug my video cards as one piece, leave them filled with water, and just use the 210 to give me some video support to see what I'm doing (easier to do that then unplug and replug in 10 lbs worth of SLI video cards + waterblocks 4 times over)
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