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News MSI UK Offering Free Corsair H75 Cooler And Cashback With Z97 Gaming Boards

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Combatus, 8 May 2014.

  1. Combatus

    Combatus Bit-tech Modding + hardware reviews Staff Super Moderator

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  2. Dave Lister

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    Damn I just bought an H105 and two SP120 fans while waiting for the Z97 boards to come out ! Oh well i'm only looking for mini ITX boards just now so no big loss really. What a bargain for anyone looking at a normal ATX build though !

    BT - The Dabs link takes you to Novatech.
     
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    OK, I was going to order stuff for my new Z97 build in June, but this is too good a deal to miss out on, so I'll order the Gaming 7 bundle on Monday.

    It's going to be torture having a shiny new Mobo & water cooler just sitting there for a month.with no CPU to go in it though.((
     
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    Combatus Bit-tech Modding + hardware reviews Staff Super Moderator

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    Thanks - fixed! YEah the mini-ITX gaming board does look tasty doesn't it?

    Nice one Hustler :D The new CPUs are hopefully worth waiting for - with the better core/IHS attachment I'm hoping for Sandy Bridge overclocking and thermals but we'll see :D If you're desperate you could pick up a pentium - they're less than £40 at some places atm. Then keep as a spare or sell it.
     
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  5. Dave Lister

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    Actually I was planning to buy a MSI Z87 MITX board before the tangible news of the new Z97 boards became a close reality. And I do actually prefer these to the top end ASUS boards just now, Tasty - Hell Yeah!
     
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  6. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    Sadly rumors say the vanilla Haswell refresh isn't all we may have hoped.
    http://wccftech.com/intel-core-i7-4790-haswell-refresh-processors-previewed/
    I'm not even sure they are using the better core/IHS attachment on the non K series.
     
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  7. Combatus

    Combatus Bit-tech Modding + hardware reviews Staff Super Moderator

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    You mean in terms of raw performance increase - well maybe not but till we get our mits on the we won't know for sure- but they didn't test a K-series chip. It's the overclocking potential I was referring to ;) Also there's little need for better thermal transfer for non K-series CPUs - it's only when you're gunning for high overclocks, ie 4.4GHz and above that heat can build up.
     
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