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[tidy]

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[rge2]

You can count on it being paste, just like its non-xeon counterpart

 

[tidy]

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[ShintaiDK]

Only LGA2011 is soldered. The rest is not.

And since you cant OC the E3s...it makes no difference what material is used as TIM.

 

[Samus]

sorry to revive an old thread but I have a Xeon 1230 v3 (Non-refresh Haswell) and I'm fairly confident it is soldered, because I can't get the lid off and I've delidded a dozen Ivy and Haswell chips using the same "vice" method with a 2x4 as the hammer wedge directly after removing the chip from a burn (so the die is hot)

Since the lid doesn't come off without literally breaking the chip, possibly removing the die from the LGA, it can only be joined by solder.

Another dead giveaway the Xeon's are soldered is the lower idle and slower "build-up" temps. Where say, an i7-4770K, spikes to 60-70C pretty quickly, a Xeon 1230v3 spikes to 50C and hovers in the 50's for awhile before getting into the 60's, more in line with the i7-4790K with its improved (but still not soldered) interface material.

 

[Idontcare]

Wouldn't it be awesome if Intel would just be decent about this and issue a fricken PSA (public service announcement) on the matter. What is the secret?

Why not just clear the air of uncertainty and inject some facts into the conversation. Don't the customers deserve at least that much?

 

[jihe]

Wouldn't it be awesome if Intel would just be decent about this and issue a fricken PSA (public service announcement) on the matter. What is the secret?

Why not just clear the air of uncertainty and inject some facts into the conversation. Don't the customers deserve at least that much?

Maybe intel wants you to delid and kill the cpu so you have to buy a replacement.

 

[Idontcare]

Maybe intel wants you to delid and kill the cpu so you have to buy a replacement.

Not likely, more likely is that there is just a disconnect between the marketing department and the end customer.

A couple years ago we had IntelEnthusiast who would see our plight and seek out answers internally and then elucidate the situation for us enthusiasts.

But he was attached to the now defunct enthusiast mobo group and so we have no one down in the trenches listening to us little guys.