All of this is answered in my other post really but;
1. As I said, if intel is going to charge a £44 premium for a K CPU they better damn well give you something for it (a CPU that simply skips the laser cutting step far and away doesn't equate to a £44 premium).
2. If a component gets hotter, it ends up generating more heat. You saying it doesn't generate more heat is like me saying when VRMs come under load they aren't going to heat up and cause ambient temps to rise, which in turn will cause the VRMs to get hotter - it just isn't true.
3. CPUs in times gone by could indeed run for decades on TIM, today however that is not true at all. To date I have had to delid a Phenom 2 CPU after 1 year due to the TIM breaking down and causing the CPU to overheat in about 30 seconds of the system simply being on, I've had a 2500k die due to what I suspect to be a poorly soldered IHS, and more recently I saw a 18c drop in load temps by delidding a 3570k. Such thermal problems don't arise with a soldered IHS, unless of course you get a CPU like my old 2500k in that case it was entirely my fault for not returning it but I just couldn't be bothered.
1. If you were really knowledgeable you'd be damn happy that an unlocked multiplier is only costing you $45.
2. That isn't even close to how things work, temperature does not equate to power usage or heat produced. When you change out from the stock heatsink to a better aftermarket heatsink does power consumption go down? No. The same is true with the TIM vs. Solder. Just because the processor is running cooler doesn't mean it is producing less heat or consuming less power.
3. No, today it is still completely true. The rare cases where the processor dies early are not any more common with TIM than they are with solder, you're living proof of that. And the safeguards in place today to prevent damage from overheating are way better than what we had 10 years ago.
1. lol? You think skt 2011 is the best? Have you even looked at how old the technology of 2011 is? Aside from extra cores and triple channel memory 2011 does not technologically offer anything superior. Having the latest means having a system that incorporates as many of the latest technologies as possible - thats Z77 and Z87, not skt 2011.
2. £44 is not $45 to start with, you are getting less with a K series CPU as at least the regular CPUs go through that extra step of being laser cut (thats why I say technically you are getting less with a K series) and finally I don't recall any time aside from in more recent years where such a premium for a unlocked CPU has been charged and I'm thinking way back to Athlon XP days, back then the difference between locked and unlocked was only like £20.
1. Well it is offiically the enthusiast platform. Socket 115X is the mainstream platform. And yes, performance wise 2011 still is the best.
2. Of course £44 isn't $45 but it is close enough, its 4AM here and I'm too lazy to do the conversion or type the alt code. And technically, the laser cutting would remove part of the silicon, so technically what I'm actually receiving in terms of physical product would be less with a non-K product...if you really want to be technical. However, the process of locking/unlocking the processor that Intel does isn't simply laser locking. After the CPU is binned, the information detailing clock speed, locked or unlocked status, cache availability, HT function, and model number are all laser hardcoded into the CPU. All the processors go through this step, it isn't skipped on unlocked processor because at the very least their clock speeds and model information still need to be set. And going way back to the Athlon XP days, Intel's unlocked processors were all extreme edition processors, and the price premium was usually $700-800 because they usually cost $1000 or more. And there were no official unlocked Athlon XPs, to get an Athlon XP with an unlocked multiplier you had to do a physical mod to the processor.