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I've stated this before, but I'll mention it again. Have a look at this terrible English:
That's taken from the Rampage V Extreme review, but wait, it looks familiar?
Oh...
If you're going to be lazy and copy from one review to another, at least make sure the English is readable?
That's not all though, have a look at the "Overclocking - The Core i7-5960X on X99" page on each review you'll see the following opening and closing paragraphs:
Wanna play a game and see how many other copy/pastes happened between those reviews?
The funniest thing is there are subtle changes to make it not appear to be a copy/paste at first, but there's no doubting it once you compare them all side-by-side.
Some clock great on low voltages, others behave like a pig, in our case we needed 1.4 Volts to reach 4.4 GHz and have gotten a pig.
That's taken from the Rampage V Extreme review, but wait, it looks familiar?
ASUS X99 TUF Sabertooth ReviewSome clock great on low voltages, others behave like a pig, in our case we needed 1.4 Volts to reach 4.4 GHz and have gotten a pig.
ASUS X99 DeluxeSome clock great on low voltages, others behave like a pig, in our case where we needed 1.4 Volts to reach 4.4 GHz and have gotten the pig.
GIGABYTE X99 SOC ForceSome clock great on low voltages, other behave like a pig, in our case where we needed 1.4 Volts to reach 4.4 GHz and have gotten the pig.
MSI X99S Gaming 9 ACSome clock great on low voltages, other behave like a pig, in our case where we needed 1.4 Volts to reach 4.4 GHz and have gotten the pig.
ASRock X99X KillerSome CPUs clock great on low voltages, other behave like a pig, in our case where we needed ~1.40 Volts to reach 4.4 GHz and yes, we have gotten the pig processor.
GIGABYTE X99 UD4Some clock great on low voltages, other behave like a pig, in our case where we needed 1.4 Volts to reach 4.4 GHz and have gotten the pig.
ASRock X99 OC FormulaSome CPUs clock great on low voltages, other behave like a pig, in our case where we needed 1.40 Volts to reach 4.4 GHz and yes, we have gotten the pig processor.
MSI X99S XPower ACSome CPUs clock great on low voltages, other behave like a pig, in our case where we needed 1.375 Volts to reach 4.4 GHz and yes, we have gotten the pig.
Oh...
If you're going to be lazy and copy from one review to another, at least make sure the English is readable?
That's not all though, have a look at the "Overclocking - The Core i7-5960X on X99" page on each review you'll see the following opening and closing paragraphs:
We need to take a couple of steps if we want to overclock. Invest in good hardware by the way, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with Haswell-E was a little more difficult than we expected. Your voltage should sit at roughly 1.3 to 1.4 Volts with an AIO water-cooling, dual rad preferred. Mind you that overclocking 8-cores is a tough job, and our processor sample certainly is not a very good overclocker.
The 5960X has a base clock of 3.0 GHz. At 1.3 Volts we end up at roughly 4.0~4.2 GHz. We need a heftier 1.375 ~ 1.425 Volts range to reach 4.4 / 4.5 GHz
ASRock X99X KillerWe need to take a couple of steps if we want to overclock. Invest in good hardware by the way, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with Haswell-E was a little more difficult than we expected. Your voltage should sit at roughly 1.3 to 1.4 Volts with an AIO water-cooling, dual rad preferred. Mind you that overclocking 8-cores is a tough job, and our processor sample certainly is not a very good overclocker.
The 5960X has a base clock of 3.0 GHz. At 1.3 Volts we end up at roughly 4.0~4.2 GHz. We need a heftier 1.375 ~ 1.425 Volts range to reach 4.4 / 4.5 GHz
We need to take a couple of steps if we want to overclock. Invest in good hardware by the way, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with Haswell-E was a little more difficult then we expected. Your voltage should sit at roughly 1.3 to 1.4 Volts with an AIO water-cooling, dual rad preferred. Mind you that overclocking 8-cores is a tough job, and our processor sample certainly is not a very good overclocker. The 5960X has a base clock of 3.0 GHz. At 1.3 Volts we end up at roughly 4.0~4.2 GHz. We need a hefty 1.375 ~ 1.425 Volts range to reach 4.4 / 4.5 GHz with our processor. Yes, we have received a pretty bad CPU in terms of overclocking.
GIGABYTE X99 UD4Above a quick look with a Prime95 stress test with all four cores active and stressed at almost ~4300 MHz. You'll need a rather reasonable cooler, eight-cores versus overclocking require a higher-voltage, and that creates more heat to deal with. Opposed to what CPU-Z is showing, in the end we had to increase processor voltage to 1.375 Volts to get 4.3 GHz on the processor stable.
With so much ridiculous horsepower in the system we could not resist trying out overclocking. We're keeping it relatively simple. We need to take a couple of steps if we want to overclock. Invest in good hardware by the way, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with Haswell-E was a little more difficult than we expected. Your voltage should sit at roughly 1.3 to 1.4 Volts with an AIO water-cooling, dual rad preferred. Mind you that overclocking 8-cores is a tough job, and our processor sample certainly is not a very good overclocker.
The 5960X has a base clock of 3.0 GHz. At 1.3 Volts we end up at roughly 4.0~4.2 GHz. We need a heftier 1.375 ~ 1.425 Volts range to reach 4.4 / 4.5 GHz
ASRock X99 OC FormulaIn the chart above you can see what will happen to power consumption. The 'Load Overclocked' was at ~4400 MHz which requires 1.40 Volts on the eight CPU cores. That is quite a bit of voltage. So the ~1000 MHz overclock made our power consumption increase (under load). Let me clearly note here that this is the power consumption for the PC measured at the wall socket power draw.
With so much ridiculous horsepower in the system we could not resist trying out overclocking. We're keeping it relatively simple. We need to take a couple of steps if we want to overclock. Invest in good hardware by the way, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with Haswell-E was a little more difficult than we expected. Your voltage should sit at roughly 1.3 to 1.4 Volts with an AIO water-cooling, dual rad preferred. Mind you that overclocking 8-cores is a tough job, and our processor sample certainly is not a very good overclocker.
The 5960X has a base clock of 3.0 GHz. At 1.3 Volts we end up at roughly 4.0~4.2 GHz. We need a hefty 1.375 ~ 1.425 Volts range to reach 4.4 / 4.5 GHz
MSI X99S XPower ACIn the chart above you can see what will happen to power consumption. The 'Load Overclocked' was at ~4400 MHz which requires 1.375 Volts on the eight CPU cores. That is quite a bit of voltage. So the ~1000 MHz overclock made our power consumption double (under load). Let me clearly note here that this is the power consumption for the PC measured at the wall socket power draw."]In the chart above you can see what will happen to power consumption. The 'Load Overclocked' was at ~4400 MHz which requires 1.375 Volts on the eight CPU cores. That is quite a bit of voltage. So the ~1000 MHz overclock made our power consumption double (under load). Let me clearly note here that this is the power consumption for the PC measured at the wall socket power draw.
With so much ridiculous horsepower in the system we could not resist trying out overclocking. We're keeping it relatively simple. We need to take a couple of steps if we want to overclock. Invest in good hardware by the way, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with Haswell-E was a little more difficult than we expected. Your voltage should sit at roughly 1.3 to 1.4 Volts with an AIO water-cooling, dual rad preferred. Mind you that overclocking 8-cores is a tough job, and our processor sample certainly is not a very good overclocker. The 5960X has a base clock of 3.0 GHz. At 1.3 Volts we end up at roughly 4.0~4.2 GHz. We need a hefty 1.375 ~ 1.425 Volts range to reach 4.4 / 4.5 GHz
MSI X99S Gaming 9 ACIn the chart above you can see what will happen to power consumption. The 'Load Overclocked' was at ~4500 MHz which requires 1.425 Volts on the eight CPU cores. That is a LOT of voltage. So the 1000 MHz overclock made our power consumption double (under load). Let me clearly note here that this is the power consumptiopn for the PC measured at the wall socket power draw.
We need to take a couple of steps if we want to overclock. Invest in good hardware by the way, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with Haswell-E was a little more difficult then we expected. Your voltage should sit at roughly 1.3 to 1.4 Volts with an AIO water-cooling, dual rad preferred. Mind you that overclocking 8-cores is a tough job, and our processor sample certainly is not a very good overclocker. The 5960X has a base clock of 3.0 GHz. At 1.3 Volts we end up at roughly 4.0~4.2 GHz. We need a hefty 1.375 ~ 1.425 Volts range to reach 4.4 / 4.5 GHz
Yes, we have received a pretty bad CPU in terms of overclocking.
GIGABYTE X99 SOC ForceIn the chart above you can see what will happen to power consumption. The 'Load Overclocked' was at ~4500 MHz which requires 1.425 Volts on the eight CPU cores. That is a LOT of voltage. So the 1000 MHz overclock made our power consumption double (under load). Let me clearly note here that this is the power consumption for the PC measured at the wall socket power draw.
We need to take a couple of steps if we want to overclock. Invest in good hardware by the way, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with Haswell-E was a little more difficult than we expected. Your voltage should sit at roughly 1.3 to 1.4 Volts with an AIO water-cooling, dual rad preferred. Keep in mind that overclocking 8-cores is a tough job, and our processor sample certainly is not a very good overclocker. The 5960X has a base clock of 3.0 GHz. At 1.3 Volts we end up at roughly 4.0~4.2 GHz. We need a hefty 1.375 ~ 1.425 Volts range to reach 4.4 / 4.5 GHz.
Yes, we have received a pretty bad CPU in terms of overclocking.
ASUS Rampage V ExtremeIn the chart above you can see what will happen to power consumption. The 'Load Overclocked' was at ~4500 MHz which requires ~1.425 Volts on the eight CPU cores. That is a LOT of voltage. So the 1000 MHz overclock made our power consumption double (under load). Let me clearly note here that this is the power consumption for the PC measured at the wall socket.
We need to take a couple of steps if we want to overclock. Invest in good hardware by the way, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with Haswell-E was a little more difficult than we expected. Your voltage should sit at roughly 1.3 to 1.4 Volts with an AIO water-cooling, dual rad preferred. Keep in mind that overclocking 8-cores is a tough job, and our processor sample certainly is not a very good overclocker. The 5960X has a base clock of 3.0 GHz. At 1.3 Volts we end up at roughly 4.0~4.2 GHz. We need a hefty 1.375 ~ 1.425 Volts range to reach 4.4 / 4.5 GHz. Yes, we have received a pretty bad CPU in terms of overclocking.
ASUS X99 TUF SabertoothIn the chart above you can see what will happen to power consumption. The 'Load Overclocked' was at ~4400 MHz which requires 1.400~1.425 Volts on the eight CPU cores. That is a LOT of voltage. So the 1000 MHz overclock made our power consumption double (under load). Let me clearly note here that this is the power consumption for the PC measured at the wall socket.
We need to take a couple of steps if we want to overclock. Invest in good hardware by the way, the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with Haswell-E was a little more difficult than we expected. Your voltage should sit at roughly 1.3 to 1.4 Volts with an AIO water-cooling, dual rad preferred. Mind you that overclocking 8-cores is a tough job, and our processor sample certainly is not a very good overclocker. The 5960X has a base clock of 3.0 GHz. At 1.3 Volts we end up at roughly 4.0~4.2 GHz. We need a hefty 1.375 ~ 1.425 Volts range to reach 4.4 / 4.5 GHz
Yes, we have received a pretty bad CPU in terms of overclocking.
ASUS X99 DeluxeIn the chart above you can see what will happen to power consumption. The 'Load Overclocked' was at ~4500 MHz which requires 1.425 Volts on the eight CPU cores. That is a LOT of voltage. So the 1000 MHz overclock made our power consumption double (under load). Let me clearly note here that this is the power consumption for the PC measured at the wall socket power draw.
Wanna play a game and see how many other copy/pastes happened between those reviews?
The funniest thing is there are subtle changes to make it not appear to be a copy/paste at first, but there's no doubting it once you compare them all side-by-side.
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