I should clarify that I remove the majority of the TIM by scraping/wiping it off with something (old credit card, dry Qtips, a cloth, whatever) and only use the Scotch® Magic Tape to do the final cleaning. It pulls all the stuff out of the small micro-grooves on my Noctua D14 as well as whatever...
The 'Magic' type of Scotch tape comes off perfectly clean and leaves no residue. I spent 10 years doing special effects with film and used it often for masking film when doing hand coloring. If it left any residue it would have been very visible. Some folks have even used it (no kidding) to...
Scotch tape seems to work well after removing the majority of the stuff using cotton swabs. I just use 3-4 inch strips, press it down and then pull it off. Repeat until the processor and/or cooler is shiny clean. Seems to work well if you don't have almost pure alcohol. It's said that rubbing...
It will be interesting to learn how well a single core can be OC'd rather than all cores. That might OC higher while generating less heat. The 'Turbo Boost Max 3.0' could prove to be a great new feature if it allows one to OC only a single core while running a certain game/app while using the...
Are you in the US or Canada? They seem to have messed up my shipping too and provided a Canada Post tracking number even though their shipping confirmation says it used Purolator. I can track it directly on the Canada Post website (Purolator set me straight about who's number it was), but the...
Unfortunately with the decline in popularity of the desktop computer I fear future prices of high-end desktop CPU's will go even higher as fewer people will be buying them. The same thing is happening with high-end dSLR cameras as most of that market has moved to using mobile phones.
Upgrading from: an i7-3930K / P9X79-DLX / 32GB DDR3 RAM
To: i7-6900K / ASUS X99-DELUXE-II / 32GB DDR4 RAM.
I'm a pro photographer and also do some video editing. I don't overclock much/often but want to upgrade to more recent tech and hope the Turbo Boost 3.0 feature will provide a a way to...
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