You increase the processor life by not running it too hot but there's diminishing returns on cooling. Particularly since even if you could theoretically make a chip run 50 years why the hell would you bother? Nobody uses the same processor that long so it's rather pointless to cool it to some crazy level where it'll last forever and ever. Basically you just want it cool enough to run fast enough for your uses and run for several years without issue. Anything more than 5 years is rather silly in the tech world, does anybody want a CPU from 2004?
Meh.. so if i drop the thing on a cascade or LN2, you dont think i will not be able to get more out of it?
And there are plenty of people on this forum who uses processors for more then 5 yrs.
And I think your talking to the wrong person about cpu life... as it means nothing to me... no cpu i have had has been in my system longer then 5 months.... including gulftowns.
Water vs Air... can i first ask HOW MANY of you guys are even on a mid tier h2o setup?
It amazes me how many people think they are masters in watercooling systems just because they pimp'd out a H5O.
You guys completely ignore the fact there are full board blocks, and full gpu blocks.
Do you think the cpu is the only piece in the computer which needs cooling?
Did it ever come across to you guys, the mosfets your running on your board and gpu's are the hottest burning chips in your entire system, more so then the capacitors inside your PSU?
So now it takes 1.6V to get SB 5ghz. Links to said results . Or was that a quick o/c?
Think more 1.45V.
Do you really think you know more then me?
Really?
OK... my friend has the top tier board which i am not going to disclose on a 2600K
He tells me right now, the system is marvelous every day i talk to him on AIM.
YES EVERY DAY I GET THE SAME PM!!!
The system loads up at around 130W full load @ stock settings with a GTX 260.
It pulls close to 30k points on WCG which ranks it near a i7 @ 3.6-3.8ghz @ stock settings.
However the system gets crushed by any gulftown that it comes across, on WCG. (lack of physical cores)
The system will hold 4.5ghz @ 1.312 Vcore.
The system will not do 5ghz unless you pump a exponential amount of vcore.
The 5 cpu's he's got to play with only 1 could do 4.7ghz with acceptable voltages of around 1.375, however he decided to go with 200 less mhz, for a cut of .06vcore.
The chips arent hot running at all, and the ES's have the same bug most gulftowns have of idling below ambient.
So u wanna tell me i dont the 2600K?
*takes a bow and walks away*
*goes back in line with all the other people waiting for LGA2011*