Haswell-E uses a Soldered Thermal Interface

Don't De-lid you Haswell-E!

| Source: ocdrift Author: Mark Campbell

Intel Haswell-E de-lidded: A Soldered IHS!

Reports have been flying in this morning that Intel's upcoming Haswell-E CPU will have their chips soldered to their IHS (integrated heat spreader). This is a move from what Intel has done with their previous few generations of hardware where they used a thermal interface material more similar to what we use to attach our coolers to our hardware.

Overclockers rejoice, as a soldered solution will perform better than Intel's TIM solution, as the thermal conductivity is much higher. This will allow more advanced cooling solutions to more directly benefit your temperatures, which should allow you to push voltages and clock speeds higher than non-soldered solutions.

Here is a picture below of the supposedly de-lidded Intel i7-5960X, which has obviously been destroyed by the process. Taking off the IHS here has peeled the CPU die off, destroying the CPU beyond any possible repair.

Haswell-E Specs

Here are what we know of Haswell-E's specifications thus far, as well as the pre-order pricing we reported on little over a week ago.

Processor Core i7-5960X Core i7-5930k Core i7-5820K Processing Cores 8 6 6 Processing Threads 16 12 12 Cache 20MB 15MB 15MB BLK 100MHz 100MHz 100MHz Core Base Frequency 3.0GHz 3.5GHz 3.2GHz Supported Memory DDR4 DDR4 DDR4 Memory Controller Frequency 2133MHz 2133MHz 2133MHz PCI Express Config. 2x16 + 1x8 2x16 +1x8 1x16 + 1x8 + 1x4 TDP 140W 140W 140W Price $1,107.83 $631.54 $425.92





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