Loving the Cold........ Winter is here at last.

simonnance · 3 Nov 2007 at 23:05

Got my windows wide open and my E6400 cooking at 3.6Ghz with 1.488V (more like 1.56V BIOS, damm P5E vDrop) under a U120A, Orthos-ing at <55C. Forecast is about 10C outside atm, so I'm trying to break in my winter overclock.

Anyone else loving the nice cool temps we are starting to get........ perfect for OCing goodness?

Here's to a chilly winter!

Street · 3 Nov 2007 at 23:24

Its when I wake up in the morning and the heating hasn't been set on.. My CPU is idling at something like 22C underwater!

However.. Its not good for me, as I hate the cold. Roll on the summer!

simonnance · 3 Nov 2007 at 23:53

I'm sleeping with 2 duvets and a big throw over the top...... my bed is next to the window, and the radiator is off.

Trixxy · 4 Nov 2007 at 00:21

a few years ago I bought some flexible ducting from B&Q, dangled one half out of the window, duct taped a 80mm delta fan to the other end and had it blowing over my heatsink. Managed to get my 3200+ Clawhammer down to less than 10c idle, I think load was around 20c... not bad for air!

sosrandom · 4 Nov 2007 at 00:46

haha, n1. Ive thought of getting one of thse external radiators and putting it outside. Im going to move my desk and swap my case to the other side so its hugging the external wall soon.

Justintime · 4 Nov 2007 at 02:09

Trixxy said:
a few years ago I bought some flexible ducting from B&Q, dangled one half out of the window, duct taped a 80mm delta fan to the other end and had it blowing over my heatsink. Managed to get my 3200+ Clawhammer down to less than 10c idle, I think load was around 20c... not bad for air!

Help much in summer?

Trixxy · 4 Nov 2007 at 02:32

Justintime said:
Help much in summer?

Only used it on my pc that one winter, in the summer I use it to cool myself down.

Trixxy · 4 Nov 2007 at 02:43

found an old pic of it:

jabski · 4 Nov 2007 at 02:47

lol nice one trixxy

Might try that out

Bizarre · 4 Nov 2007 at 02:55

simonnance said:
I'm sleeping with 2 duvets and a big throw over the top...... my bed is next to the window, and the radiator is off.

R.I.P

Abz · 4 Nov 2007 at 06:12

Am from a hot country, this chill is not good

Davey D · 4 Nov 2007 at 10:06

Im loving that its cold so that it kills off all those damned midges everywhere, so now when i take my MTB down to the woods i dont get eaten alive

allllec · 4 Nov 2007 at 11:41

Warmth and sun light > overclock tbh

Jleo · 4 Nov 2007 at 13:50

Trixxy said:
found an old pic of it:

If you haven't seen this article before I reckon you will find it interesting

http://www.overclockers.com/articles389/index06.asp

Trixxy · 4 Nov 2007 at 19:19

cheers for that, good read... can't beat old-skool ghetto cooling.

stealthgeek · 9 Nov 2007 at 16:45

Trixxy said:
a few years ago I bought some flexible ducting from B&Q, dangled one half out of the window, duct taped a 80mm delta fan to the other end and had it blowing over my heatsink. Managed to get my 3200+ Clawhammer down to less than 10c idle, I think load was around 20c... not bad for air!

Hope you had a filter on it, or nice little bits of fly all over everything...

pastymuncher · 9 Nov 2007 at 19:28

What do you mean winters back? It never left here!!

Summer missed us altogether up here. Really good for temps though.

.Sean · 9 Nov 2007 at 19:52

10c is cold to you?

Up here in Northern Scotland 10c is warm

We're around 0-5c the last few days.

gurusan · 9 Nov 2007 at 19:56

10c warm?

crazies

Trixxy · 9 Nov 2007 at 20:19

stealthgeek said:
Hope you had a filter on it, or nice little bits of fly all over everything...

yeah, but little ones still got passed. A cut up pair of tights stretched over the end would have worked better, but that'd mean buying a pair first.