Overclocking Haswell was always a pain for enthusiast crowd since the chip was plagued with various issues like Cheap TIM on the die among other things.
The only way to surpass this was to delid the chip and either change the TIM or mount a cooler directly on the chip. While the benefits were plenty there was always a fear of the chip getting damaged.
Now MSI had decided to step in and solve the problem to a certain extent. a few days back they showed off a small slide in Facebook which shows the upcoming Z97 XPower AC will support delidded haswell CPU among other features.
Now while we wait to see how far its adopted by the enthusiast crowd.The conpet is pretty innovative.
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