- Joined
- Jul 5, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Zotac Z77ITX
- CPU
- i7 3770k
- Graphics
- HD4000
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Last night I replaced the i5 i3570K with an i7 3770K and replaced the existing 8GB of RAM with 2 x Kingston 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 for a total of 16GB.
The process was fairly uneventful but tedious. As with most mini-ITX builds, I had to unplugged all the cables and remove the entire motherboard out of the case, swap the CPU and RAM and put everything back together again. Turning the system on, it booted straight into Mountain Lion. The only glitch that I encountered was that the CPU was running at 3.4GHz, the speed of the 3570K, when it should be 3.5GHz. I noticed in the BIOS that the multiplier was stuck at 34. I did a "Load Optimised Defaults" and it went back to 35.
The differences of the 3570K and the 3770K is well documented so I won't go into that but here're some interesting tidbits.
The process was fairly uneventful but tedious. As with most mini-ITX builds, I had to unplugged all the cables and remove the entire motherboard out of the case, swap the CPU and RAM and put everything back together again. Turning the system on, it booted straight into Mountain Lion. The only glitch that I encountered was that the CPU was running at 3.4GHz, the speed of the 3570K, when it should be 3.5GHz. I noticed in the BIOS that the multiplier was stuck at 34. I did a "Load Optimised Defaults" and it went back to 35.
The differences of the 3570K and the 3770K is well documented so I won't go into that but here're some interesting tidbits.
- The 3770K heatsink has a copper core.
- Its fan is made by Nidec, the one on my 3570K is made by Foxconn.
- The fan has a higher amperage rating i.e.: it can spin faster and noisier.
- My 3770K was made in Costa Rica.
- Its fan when spinning at around 900rpm has a soft helicopter-like "whoop whoop whoop" sound. Dunno it it's a defect or if they're all like that.
- As reported by MSRDumper, pStates are the same as the 3570K except the last one.
- PStatesReached: 16 22 25 33 34 37