I accidentally split my heatsink in half just for fun.
I accidentally split my heatsink in half just for fun.
I'm trying to set up a budget PC and got the board today. I installed my E3 1271 v3 and checked the BIOS—it says it supports Broadwell CPUs too. My question is, am I getting a Xeon Broadwell or just a regular Intel i5/i7?
Then I made a joke cut on my R1 U-slot, removing the towers so only one could fit. I noticed performance dropped a lot—idle 60% load 100% usage. It seems like the motherboard might be reading temperatures incorrectly. I'm really confused right now.
Your CPU runs on Haswell architecture. Broadwell uses Xeon v4. Reducing weight and surface area on an air cooler usually limits its efficiency. Severely cutting the heat pipes would be even more damaging. (Heat pipes rely on fluid phase changes to move heat away; removing them allows the liquid to escape, leaving only minimal metal contact.)
Broadwell desktops come with high prices mainly because they’re scarce. I prefer Xeons instead. A cool tip about Broadwell is you can run 16GB DDR3 modules with it since its memory controller supports them. These units are pricey but they’re impressive. If your cooler’s heatpipe layout is outdated, you might need to remove all the existing pipes—it could ruin performance. Ideally, you’d want a cooler with separate heatpipes per side and avoid direct IHS connections.
Thanks all! I'm facing a big learning curve today. Got the new sink xdd ordered.
Xeon E3 and Core both perform well. Xeon E3 essentially combines a desktop CPU with ECC support. Xeon E5 presents another scenario. Broadwell was hard to release due to the delay in adopting the 14nm process. Skylake, however, used the same 14nm process and arrived on schedule, making Broadwell quite short-lived. That’s a bit of a mistake. Heat pipes are rigid structures containing liquid; removing them breaks the vacuum and wastes the fluid. Now you’re left with just a copper tube, which is poor at transferring heat.
The 9-series DID supported Broadwell on LGA 1150. The brief Intel 5th Gen was actually Broadwell. It launched in May 2015, but the 6th Gen arrived on the new LGA 1151 in August 2015. The i7-5775C and i5-5675C were special experimental chips; they featured 128MB of L4 cache and eDRAM. It seems to be an early trial of AMD's 3D V-Cache technology, similar to what was seen in the 5800X3D and 7800X3D.