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High Pressure CPU Coolers Can Potentially Damage Skylake CPUs
#1
http://www.eteknix.com/report-suggestake-processors/
This is pretty bad. Arctic has jumped on it to spread FUD: http://www.techpowerup.com/218070/arctic...tible.html
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#2
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/skylake...30690.html
So far, only Scythe CPU coolers are affected.
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#3
http://www.maximumpc.com/builders-woes-s...dventures/
Corsair Hydro H90 is also confirmed as a culprit.
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#4
If you check the Tom's link, you'll see Corsair is denying their involvement. Fuck 'em.
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#5
http://www.techpowerup.com/218193/cryori...nerns.html
CRYORIG's analysis is pretty good, give it a read.
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#6
Hmm, interesting. I'm wondering if Intel will make their Kaby Lake more resilient?

Intel sucks anyway. 5% year-on-year improvement in IPC in overall applications/games... Let's just all boycott Skylake and buy the more recent X58 motherboards with USB 3.0 ports and SATA 3.0 (while PCIe 2.0 16x still doesn't hold back a Titan X by more than 2% or so) and put these Hexa-core i7's on 32nm to good use (sure, they might consume like 180W under full load when overclocked to 4.4GHz, but for $90 for a Xeon X5670 which is a lot like a Core i7 970 means that the price savings would require SEVERAL (like 10+) years just for a $350 Skylake to break even, at 24/7 usage). Then we'd all teach Intel a lesson, muahahahaha!
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#7
http://www.techpowerup.com/218355/msi-an...-1151.html
Good to see MSI has found a solution to this ugly problem.
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