The Legend of Zelda: The Wind waker CPU Benchmark

**NaturalViolence** · (This post was last modified: 06-12-2013, 01:23 PM by NaturalViolence.)

admin89 Wrote:Since Haswell run hot , you will have to add cooling fans anyway

Not true. He has a special streacom case that can dissipate up to 100 watt TDP passively (in a lab, realistically it's more like 85 watts, which is still enough for a normal haswell cpu).

Source: He's on the dev channel on irc a lot and talks about his rig sometimes.

***Shonumi*** · 06-12-2013, 01:32 PM **#472**

Looking good ShizZy. Now, one of these days, we'll have to benchmark it in Gekko Wink

I see you and several other people are trying to tempt me into buying Haswell as well.

NaturalViolence Wrote:Source: He's on the dev channel on irc a lot and talks about his rig sometimes.

Guess I should be on IRC more often as well, I've been quite negligent in that regard, else I would have known that :p

ShizZy · 06-13-2013, 01:39 AM **#473**

Yeah - I would suspect I could cool an undervolted i5-4670K passively (especially with the IGP disabled). I might hold off on buying the discrete GPU until the HD 8750 series comes out (supposedly Q3 this year), but the goal is to also be able to get 2xIR w/ some AA. I'd definitely need a discrete card for that... Although I might be pleasantly surprised at what the Intel HD 4600 can get me in the meantime Tongue

I'll post some results once I get the rig up and running later this week.

Hey Shonumi!

**ExtremeDude2** · 06-13-2013, 01:56 AM **#474**

If you are going to passively cool it why buy the "k"?

ShizZy · (This post was last modified: 06-13-2013, 03:04 AM by ShizZy.)

(06-13-2013, 01:56 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: If you are going to passively cool it why buy the "k"?

Good question. There are a lot of reasons:

The only mini-ITX motherboard that's compatible with my chassis cooling system is Z87, so I'm already stuck with the premium motherboard, might as well get a CPU that can utilize it
The i5-4670S (65W TDP, 3.1GHz) would be what I originally wanted, but it is OEM only, and the i5-4570S sacrifices the baseclock more than I wanted (although it probably is OK as a last resort)
I want full control of undervolting, underclocking (probably to something like 3.2GHz base) disabling IGP, and playing with other setting to improve thermal performance, and it's not clear to me if I have that control with non-K parts (rumor on the streets is that they are pretty locked down compared to IB and SB)
I have a MicroCenter near by, so the i5-4670K is only $200

If I can't achieve the desired thermal performance at a clockrate above 3.1GHz, I'll probably return it and try to find an i5-4670S (or settle for a i5-4570S).

**NaturalViolence** · 06-13-2013, 04:33 AM **#476**

Why don't you upgrade your chassis to one of the higher end models?

ShizZy · 06-13-2013, 05:13 AM **#477**

(06-13-2013, 04:33 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Why don't you upgrade your chassis to one of the higher end models?

I am

Ordered the Streacom FC5 Evo chassis to accommodate a full-sized discrete GPU (my FC8 Evo is on Ebay right now). Something like this should fit and be fine with the PicoPSU.

**NaturalViolence** · 06-13-2013, 07:38 AM **#478**

Why would you order an FC5 instead of an FC10? Especially considering you already have an FC8!

Btw link to the ebay page please. I want to see how much it sells for.

ShizZy · 06-13-2013, 08:34 AM **#479**

(06-13-2013, 07:38 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Why would you order an FC5 instead of an FC10? Especially considering you already have an FC8!

Btw link to the ebay page please. I want to see how much it sells for.

I didn't see the advantage with the FC10 - I'd bet it cools a little better (although both are only recommended max 95W TDP), but it's like $100 more and quite a bit bigger. Other than that, both can accommodate mITX and mATX boards, as well as a full sized double-slot GPU (granted, in both cases a little hacking is required). As I see it, you pretty much have to have a mITX mobo to do this kind of build (for power reasons) and therefore I wouldn't be able to utilize the two expansion slots on the FC10. So really, it just seemed like wasted space in my media center!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261226496950?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

...I may have stretched the truth there with "brand new", but it IS only like 2 weeks old, and I'm including with it all the new hardware from my FC5 Tongue

**NaturalViolence** · 06-13-2013, 11:04 AM **#480**

ebay Wrote:I purchased this, but then realized my motherboard wasn't compatible!

You sly dog.

ShizZy Wrote:and therefore I wouldn't be able to utilize the two expansion slots on the FC10.

Why? I have a dual slot graphics card mounted on my mITX mobo.

I mean it seems like the FC5 is a step down from the FC8 Evo. I thought the point of upgrading your case was to get more cooling potential. Are you at least getting the evo version of the FC5?