8700k in the dan a4
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Motherboard: Choose whatever you want. Don't buy $200 ITX boards because you can't overclock inside the A4-SFX.
You can cool it with an Noctua L9i if you follow these steps:
1) If you allready bought the 8700k go to step 2 if not get an 8700 none K because it will have the same gaming performance and is cheaper.
2) Setup "Long Power Duration Limit" to a value bweteen 80 and 95W. This will give a huge thermal drop while only losing 2% gaming perf.
3) Play with undervolting via offset mode a good value to start is -0.05V.
4) Keep in mind you do this on your own risk but if you like to skip step 2 you can also delid your CPU.
Extra information: The TDP (Thermal design power) value on the CPU carton (8700k = 95W) is speciefied on the situation that the CPU will run like this:
but on modern motherboards the 8700k will run 4,7 Ghz on all Cores. This will result in a TDP of ~150W and together with the intel TIM (Thermo-Interface-Material) you need a big cooler or water cooling to handle this. Playing with "Long Power Duration Limit" will force the CPU to run in Intel specs and it will be much easier to cool the CPU.
Motherboard: Choose whatever you want. Don't buy $200 ITX boards because you can't overclock inside the A4-SFX.
You can cool it with an Noctua L9i if you follow these steps:
1) If you allready bought the 8700k go to step 2 if not get an 8700 none K because it will have the same gaming performance and is cheaper.
2) Setup "Long Power Duration Limit" to a value bweteen 80 and 95W. This will give a huge thermal drop while only losing 2% gaming perf.
3) Play with undervolting via offset mode a good value to start is -0.05V.
4) Keep in mind you do this on your own risk but if you like to skip step 2 you can also delid your CPU.
Extra information: The TDP (Thermal design power) value on the CPU carton (8700k = 95W) is speciefied on the situation that the CPU will run like this:
but on modern motherboards the 8700k will run 4,7 Ghz on all Cores. This will result in a TDP of ~150W and together with the intel TIM (Thermo-Interface-Material) you need a big cooler or water cooling to handle this. Playing with "Long Power Duration Limit" will force the CPU to run in Intel specs and it will be much easier to cool the CPU.
@adamik17
Motherboard: Choose whatever you want. Don't buy $200 ITX boards because you can't overclock inside the A4-SFX.
You can cool it with an Noctua L9i if you follow these steps:
1) If you allready bought the 8700k go to step 2 if not get an 8700 none K because it will have the same gaming performance and is cheaper.
2) Setup "Long Power Duration Limit" to a value bweteen 80 and 95W. This will give a huge thermal drop while only losing 2% gaming perf.
3) Play with undervolting via offset mode a good value to start is -0.05V.
4) Keep in mind you do this on your own risk but if you like to skip step 2 you can also delid your CPU.
Extra information: The TDP (Thermal design power) value on the CPU carton (8700k = 95W) is speciefied on the situation that the CPU will run like this:
but on modern motherboards the 8700k will run 4,7 Ghz on all Cores. This will result in a TDP of ~150W and together with the intel TIM (Thermo-Interface-Material) you need a big cooler or water cooling to handle this. Playing with "Long Power Duration Limit" will force the CPU to run in Intel specs and it will be much easier to cool the CPU.
The information was very helpful, thank you!
I am cooling 9900K with Asetek 545LC, but it has very heat. Would you please tell us about the recommended BIOS settings for 9900K?
On weekend there will be an update on dan-cases.com with a new tutorial section for help on how improve temps.
Hey Pedro, I'm running the same setup as you, and I just cant manage to close the front of the case.... the asetek's tubing gets in the way no matter what I do. Did you manage to round this?
I have a Gigabyte B360n motherboard, and apparently they've disabled BIOS control of long power duration limit at Intel's request, without the option to roll back to a previous version with the setting. Is it possible to do this with software like Intel XTU? I could only find decent prices on an 8700k, otherwise I'd have just bought an 8700. I'd rather not get a different motherboard.
Is the Asus Strix Z370-i really compatible with the black ridge and 120mm fan (assuming you have vlp ram)? I only got the gigabyte b360n because I read it is compatible.
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