The wacky temperature 'problem' of Ivy Bridge has been a discussion topic for weeks now. Everyone has their opinion but as usual on the internet, most of the discussion was based around opinions and not about facts. So here comes German overclocker Der8auer. He takes his retail Core i7 3770K, removes the heatspreader, changes the thermal paste, puts the heatspreader back on and ...

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... gets a 100MHz boost in frequency! Read all about it in his forum thread: http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=47539.