Rant ahead: I knew you would be right, but I did get my PH-TC14PE and I tried it out and though it's one hell of a cooler and that shows with lower voltages, you were right about the internal heatwall and I just had to see for myself how badly Intel screwed up their thermal transfer solution. It's bad. My chip's not the best mind you, but I'm limited to 4.3 GHz and ~1.18v with a top-of-the-line air cooler if I don't want to cross 80C under maximum load and 4.5 GHz requires about 1.28-1.29 which drives my temperatures into the low 90s, my coolest core being a full 15C cooler than the hottest. Had I gotten an equivalent not-so-lucky Haswell chip, I don't expect I would have been able to make it over 4.0-4.1 GHz with my self-imposed limitations, especially not with adaptive vcore and heavy AVX2 loads.
For the sake of future quality, I'm hoping the Haswell refresh is massively improved in both thermal and voltage regulation (and I slightly regret not waiting, but I still love my 3770K) and though I've decided I will delid my chip, but I'd like to wait until Skylake's out so I have a backup plan if I fail, I hate Intel right now, The slow IPC gains aren't as big of an issue for me as they're still there and we're getting more advanced instruction sets, but the way they've crippled their ~$300+, K-series i7s with one huge issue that's so simple to fix that consumers with macroscopic consumer tools can undo a modern semiconductor's apathetic incompetence, the way they're wasting more and more of the die space on a worthless iGPU for their desktop audiences, scrapping certain instruction sets on K-series to segment the market further, and the way they completely ignore doing the smallest of tweaks (like an AVX-specific voltage setting in BIOSes or a proper thermal solution at least for their flagship mainstream chips) is pissing me off.
I think my 3770K might be a particularly-botched pasting job (as it's getting way too hot for my cooler), one of those fringe cases that would see a 20C+ drop on my hottest core from delidding. It's disgusting, need to void my warranty and potentially destroy my chip to get it able to do what I paid for it, as a K-series chip, to do. It should have specific tweaks to assist with that in the first place when they're selling it as its own flagship SKU with specific motherboards needed. Sorry for the rant, probably a bit late to it (so 2012/2013).
