Rocket 88 Delid & Relid kit

[cchalogamer]

1 I'm on the east coast, 2 I've been awake for just under 22hrs.  It is not too early for bed time.

[ccokeman]

Would definitely like to see the temp difference before I kill an 8700K LOL 

[Braegnok]

Hardware arrived today, waiting on chassis, 8-pin EPS extension cables.

 

The Asus motherboard and Asus graphics card are both early Birthday gifts from my lovely sister in law,.. Thanks Suzzie. 

 

 

I expect to have the chassis, cables by Friday end of day,.. and run the stock settings before deliding benchmarks,..

 

System specs:

Intel Core i7-8700K processor 

Asus Maximus X Apex motherboard

Corsair H115i cooling, 5X Noctua 140MM fans

16GB 2X8 Corsair 2666 memory

Samsung 960 Pro 512GB M.2 primary

Asus GTX1080Ti FE graphics card

SeaSonic SSR-1000PD power supply

Phanteks Enthoo Evolv TGE chassis

Edited December 18, 2017 by Braegnok

[ccokeman]

Nice

[Braegnok]

Update : Received Phanteks Chassis this morning and the Apex motherboard is E-ATX  271.7805mm wide,.. Evolve chassis only supports E-ATX up to 264mm wide.

 

Did not notice the outward jog on motherboard tray when I ordered case,.. 

 

 

I knew the board was wide and I figured edge would just slightly cover rubber grommets on right side,.. but turns out motherboard is a good 1/4" off the  standoffs and touching metal back panel  on right side. 

 

So looks like I'm changing horses in the middle of the river, and ordering a new chassis,.. will update thread in a few days. Sorry for the delay. 

Edited December 9, 2017 by Braegnok

[ir_cow]

That sucks! NZXT H440 had the same thing. Made it impossible to install a E-ATX motherboard.

[Braegnok]

Ordered another chassis,.. Corsair Air 740.

 

Update: received new chassis today Friday 12-15-2017,.. motherboard fits,.. so I'll get busy an post some results. 

Edited December 19, 2017 by Braegnok

[Braegnok]

OK,.. Intel Core i7-8700K pre-delid, stock settings. 

 

30-min small FFT Prime95 Max temp on package 76c

 

 

 

Asus RealBench Stress Test Max temp on package 59c

 

 

 

I'll be spending rest of today,.. confirming processor, memory are 100%, playing around with the OC features this board is loaded with.

 

Will do the delid tonight,.. run stock settings Prime95 & RealBench Monday after work.   

Edited December 17, 2017 by Braegnok

[Braegnok]

30-min small FFT Prime95 Max temp on package 55c 

 

 

 

RealBench: Max Temp on package 47c

 

 

 

well worth the effort!.  

Edited December 19, 2017 by Braegnok

[ccokeman]

Nice, 

[Braegnok]

I'm loading Steam Library now, going to be long night,..  

Edited December 20, 2017 by Braegnok

[cchalogamer]

Humm, me likes the numbers, not too sure if I'll bother with the 8600K just because it's in the HTPC (so the wife will be upset if it's down for the afternoon) and with the current cooling setup it's not bad and I doubt I'll try to "world record OC" the thing outside of a few runs with higher volts at some point when I'm bored.