Gelid Tranquillo okay for 4.5GHz 2500k?

From what I understand these chips do run hot and less you have really good cooling and a huge heatsink. I wouldn't woryr too much about it unless it goes north of 80.

Don't forget it is summer and these lats few days have seen high humidity and ambient temps.
 
Temperature-wise there is next to no difference b/n prime95 small fft and the older IBT without AVX if, of course, one gives IBT enough memory, say not less than 2Gb.

I have rev 1, but so far as cooling capabilities are concerned, rev 2 is exactly the same, they just tilted the assembly backwards to ensure less interference with memory.

People who are lucky to have 2500k's that overclock well on lower voltages may experience slightly lower temperatures.

The abovementioned bit-tech.net review: The Tranquillo load delta T of 54 deg corresponds to 79 deg at 25 deg ambient. I guess that this is more or less what I would expect at that overclock for a load a bit less than IBT without AVX.
 
I should perhaps mention that my voltage is a bit high for 4.2GHz as I prefer to keep vcore dynamic because at idle it goes down to 0.864V. A fixed vcore can be 0.1V lower, but it would stay the same at idle and load increasing power consumption.
 
betaspin said:
I have rev 1, but so far as cooling capabilities are concerned, rev 2 is exactly the same, they just tilted the assembly backwards to ensure less interference with memory.
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Are you sure there's no difference in cooling, the Rev 2 seems to have changed the mini heatsink as well.
 
I think rev. 2 is suppose to be a bit better in cooling, well in theory anyway according to there site, due to the heat pipes being a wee bit more bent as said in order to prevent any conflict from the components on latest mainboards.

Directly from there site for the gelid rev.2:

New of Rev. 2 Tranquillo:

The heat pipe constellation was optimized to prevent any conflict from the components on latest mainboards in the market. Additionally the shape of the small heat sink was optimized for a better heat transfer.
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BTW I order the gelid one a few days ago from here and it came today and it is indeed rev.2.
 
Broken Hope said:
Are you sure there's no difference in cooling, the Rev 2 seems to have changed the mini heatsink as well.
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The fan is the same, the mass is also the same, the number and diameter of the heatpipes are the same, and it appears that the area of the fins is also unchanged. So, the difference in the cooling ability should be minimal, if any at all.

The main reason for the introduction of the Rev 2 is to allow use of ram with higher heatsinks on 1155 boards, with the older version the limit is around 36-37mm, as Kingston HyperX fits with about 1mm of clearance to the fan.
 
welshdragon said:
From what I understand these chips do run hot and less you have really good cooling and a huge heatsink. I wouldn't woryr too much about it unless it goes north of 80.

Don't forget it is summer and these lats few days have seen high humidity and ambient temps.
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They run quite cool, unless you use lots of Voltage :)
Mine runs a 60*c while in games and just over 70*C in prime.4.5Ghz @1.28v
I use a Akasa Nero V2 which is not a very powerfull cooler and got it becouse it was small :)
So I would expect a Tranquillo to be better with an extra heatpipe.
 
Running 4.5ghz @ 1.31v (though cpuz reported 1.34v under 100% load) using the tranquillo rev 2. After 4 hrs prime95 small ffts max temp on one of the cores was 69C. Room temp was around 21C.

I've been impressed with the cooling ability - I had it up to 4.7ghz @ 1.36v to run the custom PC benchmark and after 10 mins of that it was around 60C. It's no silver arrow or noctua, but it's great for the price.
 
The Gelid Tranquilllo is a good cooler, but has its limitations. The very thorough Frosty Tech review of rev 1 http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2512&page=1 concludes
Clearly, the Gelid Tranquillo heatsink is best suited to 95-85W TDP processors where it easily manages to keep temperatures in check while operating at whisper quiet levels.

When stressed with the 150W heat load the Tranquillo heatsink can at best yield 'good' thermal performance on the Intel test platform. However, a half-dozen other heatsinks cool better with the same, or nearly identical sound output. Bottom line, Gelid Solutions have produced a good quiet heatsink, with good thermal performance.
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With a 4.5GHz i5 2600k you are looking at a heat load of 135-140W. This is close to the 150W where the Tranquillo becomes less efficient.
 
Just bumping this to show my results with the Gelid and my 2500K, using auto voltage the max Vcore shown in Hardware Monitor was 1.30.

I've not finished stress testing yet, but with a 20c ambient temperature I believe getting a max of 73c with full AVX testing should be fine since normal use won't stress it that far.

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Here's a shot of CPU-Z when the stress test is running.

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