- Jan 5, 2017
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A good day to you, fellow hardware inclined people.
I just finished upgrading my build to an i7 7700K on an Asus Strix ROG Z270F. On top of that, I installed my Shadow Rock 2, which is a pretty heavy fan that takes a lot of space on the Mainboard.
On my old mainboard with an older socket, the little black plastic clips that hold the screws of the backplate in place made it impossible to put the cooler on too tight. On the new one, the socket seems to sit a bit higher so I had to improvise and tightened the screws one by one until the cooler sat in place firmly.
So, for now, it seems to work. I didn't remove the cooler and the cpu to check if there is any bending on the pins yet. Since I have no clue what bending will actually do to my performance / if my PC should even work once bending has occurred, I'll list some stats I am aware of.
Currently, the CPU is sitting at around 40°C idle. Not sure how much would be normal, my oversized heatsinks on the motherboard also didn't allow me to change the position of the clipped on CPU fan to any other than facing my GPU (There's like a 1cm gap at max). For the people that are not familiar with the Shadow Rock 2 cooler, it simply is a gigantic heatsink in form of a cube with a detachable fan on one of its sides, you can clip it to any side that has enough space to fit it. So, maybe the temperature could be increased due to that.
With 150 processes running, it is currently at a speed of 4,5GHz, which should be it max speed while boosted. This is still idle so I am not sure if it should run on boosted instead of its max speed of 4,2GHz.
I also noticed that my PC feels a little sluggish since the update. For instance opening a new tab in the browser or even highlighting text has a bit of a delay which wasn't the case before the installation of the new parts. (The sluggishness was mostly in Chrome, could reduce it by simply closing down some unneeded tabs, wow, that was easy.)
However, any information about bending with the LGA 1151 processors, especially Kabylake is appreciated.
I just finished upgrading my build to an i7 7700K on an Asus Strix ROG Z270F. On top of that, I installed my Shadow Rock 2, which is a pretty heavy fan that takes a lot of space on the Mainboard.
On my old mainboard with an older socket, the little black plastic clips that hold the screws of the backplate in place made it impossible to put the cooler on too tight. On the new one, the socket seems to sit a bit higher so I had to improvise and tightened the screws one by one until the cooler sat in place firmly.
So, for now, it seems to work. I didn't remove the cooler and the cpu to check if there is any bending on the pins yet. Since I have no clue what bending will actually do to my performance / if my PC should even work once bending has occurred, I'll list some stats I am aware of.
Currently, the CPU is sitting at around 40°C idle. Not sure how much would be normal, my oversized heatsinks on the motherboard also didn't allow me to change the position of the clipped on CPU fan to any other than facing my GPU (There's like a 1cm gap at max). For the people that are not familiar with the Shadow Rock 2 cooler, it simply is a gigantic heatsink in form of a cube with a detachable fan on one of its sides, you can clip it to any side that has enough space to fit it. So, maybe the temperature could be increased due to that.
With 150 processes running, it is currently at a speed of 4,5GHz, which should be it max speed while boosted. This is still idle so I am not sure if it should run on boosted instead of its max speed of 4,2GHz.
I also noticed that my PC feels a little sluggish since the update. For instance opening a new tab in the browser or even highlighting text has a bit of a delay which wasn't the case before the installation of the new parts. (The sluggishness was mostly in Chrome, could reduce it by simply closing down some unneeded tabs, wow, that was easy.)
However, any information about bending with the LGA 1151 processors, especially Kabylake is appreciated.
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