I dont think you understand, mine is thermally throttling. As in, its hitting the max temp allowed (99C) and in HWinfo64 indicates 2 cores are throttling. Yes, it turbos fine but the 4770R is built on a 22nm process and what youve got is 14nm and likely more efficient even if the TDP's might be the same. (though yours may be configured at a lower TDP as allowed by intel).
I need to crack mine open and repaste. 100C is actually super hot for CPU's and personally ive never owned one thats maxed out its Tjunction max like that.
I need to crack mine open and repaste. 100C is actually super hot for CPU's and personally ive never owned one thats maxed out its Tjunction max like that.
Yah I forgot you didn't get the same model as me. I would honestly recommend trying to run this on command line linux before getting too crazy with hardware modifications. Windows has so many stupid power saving functions built in that I wouldn't be surprised it there is something slowing this down, especially if speedstep is enabled. Linux will run it at full bore. If you aren't worried about warranty returns though it might be worth it to completely disassemble that case and let it run out in the open.
As for those processors you posted, there are a few on ebay, but they are around $200. not bad, but not really groundbreaking considering you can't put more than one on a MB like the higher end xeons. 50 bucks for the 5775Cs would be a screaming deal though. Those are even more rare and anyone selling them thinks they are worth 400 bucks. I like the Alibaba listing that says "professional test" and shows what looks like a bunch of community college world of warcraft players sitting there.
Or try running some external fans in push/pull (and/or leave the case open) and see if that helps with the cooling, to make sure that's the problem. I will say my 7557s run pretty hot, the fans are loud, but when I added them to a shelf on my rack (which has a pull fan behind it), the temps dropped significantly...