A night in with my antec 300...

demon8991 · 29 Jul 2009 at 22:27

I thought id sort my case out tonight and reapply some new Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound as i was using some generic stuff supplied with the motherbaord. I bought some cable ties to sort my cabling issues out and heres how it performs now.

Case Before:

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8343/img1054yug.jpg

Case After

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1598/img1059r.jpg

Idle Temps (pre cable sort & thermal paste)

Idle Temps (after)

Load Temps (pre cable sort & thermal paste)

Load Temps (after)

What you reckon?

Over all im very happy.

robmagee · 29 Jul 2009 at 22:36

Wow, so what esactaly did you do to get that much of a temp decrease? Thats pretty good going for nearly free (minus past and ties)

demon8991 · 29 Jul 2009 at 22:40

I took everything out and dusted my case completely.

Well i moved all wires so nothing obtructed any fans within the case, i cable tied everything together tightly and moved all wires around the back of the case. Any small fan wires were run underneath the motherbaord and out of sight.

I put a rice sized drop of paste on the cantre of the CPU and spread it by turning the heat sink on the cpu untill it spread it evenly. Then just rigged it all up and hey presto.

Although it did take me like 4 hours!

Kennysevenfold · 29 Jul 2009 at 23:43

demon8991 said:
Although it did take me like 4 hours!

i usually strip the case down, by that time i get bored and leave it for a few days before the rebuild haha :rolleyes:

Edit: the title of this thread LOL

OpenToSuggestions · 29 Jul 2009 at 23:46

Aside from I have a crappier cpu cooler and I have more hard drives, your rig is very similar to mine. Mine cable tidyness is average but it used to be a right mess.

moppy89 · 30 Jul 2009 at 07:04

A well spent night then

RJC · 30 Jul 2009 at 07:18

Nice drop

Inside looks much better.

mjones1 · 30 Jul 2009 at 07:28

Your e8400 still looks a little bit warm on idle since i run mine passive with a thermalright ultima 90 cooler and teps don't go above 38.

radar19 · 30 Jul 2009 at 14:05

I really need to sort out my cables.

robmagee · 30 Jul 2009 at 16:56

mjones1 said:
Your e8400 still looks a little bit warm on idle since i run mine passive with a thermalright ultima 90 cooler and teps don't go above 38.

What voltage are you using?

demon8991 · 30 Jul 2009 at 17:08

Heres my voltage and stuff.

All look ok?

robmagee · 30 Jul 2009 at 17:11

Wow, thats pretty cool for 1.328 if you can passivly cool it at idel, my old e8400 loved to burn the watts, be intersting to see how high that cpu would go with water and more volts

jak731 · 30 Jul 2009 at 17:17

That's a very good improvement for new paste and cable rearrangement. Try running linX and see how hot it gets

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=201670

demon8991 · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:11

Im so pleased with it!

I cant wait to see how well it does when the paste has bedded in!

McMav · 31 Jul 2009 at 09:28

Great temps for that voltage. sofar I'm at 3.6Ghz on my E8400 C0 with 1.12v going through it. Plan to try for 4 but I've ordered some mx2 and a couple more fans for me antec 300 as atm its sitting at 42c idle but only 60c intel burn test. Thnk my Freezer 7 needs reseating as I've never been happy with it

waynio · 31 Jul 2009 at 10:11

Well done, very nice improvement for such a minor tweak

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robmagee · 31 Jul 2009 at 19:44

60c on the intel burn test is absoulutly fine, anything below 80c is nothing to worry about

Ryan111 · 2 Aug 2009 at 17:09

You get an e8400 to 4ghz with 1.328v? Thats awesome

demon8991 · 2 Aug 2009 at 17:16

yer ive been pretty lucky with my chip!

Ryan111 · 2 Aug 2009 at 19:30

My e5200 take 1.328v for 3.5