rjohnson11
Performance on the AMD Ryzen 1800X for example is very good. I'm using one now and after my GTX 1080ti comes in I am going to change my signature. I think performance benefits with this particular CPU should best be achieved with overclocking.

rjohnson11
Performance on the AMD Ryzen 1800X for example is very good. I'm using one now and after my GTX 1080ti comes in I am going to change my signature. I think performance benefits with this particular CPU should best be achieved with overclocking.

Vlada011
I start to read this topic with hope that someone will try to explain Intel cheap "chewing gum" under IHS is even better than soldered processor.
Lets beg Intel to sell processors completely without IHS, than could save even more. 
Because customers can't remove IHS easy. 
AMD used best possible way for heat transfer, nothing else, same as Intel on Haswell-E and Broadwell-E.
That's fair, because there are very cheap R5 models with incredible performance.
 
No one can't be shocked because AMD performance, AMD performance are something normal.
Similar improvement would be for 5 years if every generation arrive with normal improvement, not miserable.
And after 2-3 generation difference would be exactly as now Ryzen from Vishera.
Only Intel keep us in false reality that we touched border and no space for improvement and in mean time technology continue to go forward they give us nothing year for year and than suddenly huge difference.
That was madness what Intel done, they sabotage performance, sabotage usage over 2 and 4 cores, customers should get far better performance in Windows 10 than i7-6900K and i7-6950X. Now with new and fast M.2 NVMe devices and some new generation of CPU computer should fly. Instead of that people paid almost 2000$ only to competition announce same performance after 7-8 months for 500$. Now almost 2000$, price of i7-6950X reach 2000 euro on some places in first week. For improved Nehalem with 10 cores. Single threded performance almost as Xeon.
 
At the end cheap paste under IHS is not to Intels save cost, that's because Intel have character as real overclocker and they want to customers alone remove IHS and install better paste. AMD is evil because didn't done same.

Scarlet-Tech

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RainStryke
Yeah, I just glued it back together with some tire glue that I had laying around from my RC car hobby at the time. I thought for sure it was going to get denied for physical damage since the damage was in the middle, on the side that connects to the motherboard pins. I did provide a little bit of candy in the RMA package, so that could of helped.

Wow. I think you just got lucky.

I've RMAed one delidded processor. I used black silicone to reattach the ihs, and even told them i had delidded because of bad thermals, then reattached it. The tech said that if they couldnt tell, they would rma it.. brand new chip came back, so i didnt complain.

There was also the 5960x they forgot to send me after an rma.. that was OEM, and didnt have a warranty... since they forgot to return it after denying the rma, the sent me a brand new one to make things even. Then sent me the old one back too.. i told them to send me a shipping label, and i would return the oem chip, sonce they sent me a brand new one.. label never came, cou later sold for cheap woth the buyer understand that there was NO warranty. Intel has treated me very well.

bcavnaugh
Who has the link to the Cheap Windows 10 Pro?