Will the Zalman Reserator2 be ok for me?

OzyOly

OzyOly

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Hi, after my crap attempt at O/C my CPU and getting stuck at 2.91GHz (and still not 100% stable), and getting temps of 60C on load, I've decided I want to water cool, I've been thinking about it for ages and I'd like it to replace the 6 fans I have in my PC (4 x 80m, 1 x120mm (CPU) and the fan on the grpahics card radiator). Obviously I will keep two low speed 80mm case fans in action to cool the HDs and case etc.

But I want to water cool to overclock, not just to keep the PC quiet.

Will there be much difference in temps than air with the Zalman R2, considering it is 'fanless'?

The whole thing is going to cost me £250 so I want to make sure it will do the job.

Thanks.
 
OzyOly said:
Hi, after my crap attempt at O/C my CPU and getting stuck at 2.91GHz (and still not 100% stable), and getting temps of 60C on load, I've decided I want to water cool, I've been thinking about it for ages and I'd like it to replace the 6 fans I have in my PC (4 x 80m, 1 x120mm (CPU) and the fan on the grpahics card radiator). Obviously I will keep two low speed 80mm case fans in action to cool the HDs and case etc.

But I want to water cool to overclock, not just to keep the PC quiet.

Will there be much difference in temps than air with the Zalman R2, considering it is 'fanless'?

The whole thing is going to cost me £250 so I want to make sure it will do the job.

Thanks.
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That's an awful OC, what motherboard have you got? I suspect that watercooling might lower your temps but they won't give you any more OC'ing headroom as that must be either down to poor silicon (unlikely) or your motherboard/ram holding you back
 
Cuchulain said:
That's an awful OC, what motherboard have you got? I suspect that watercooling might lower your temps but they won't give you any more OC'ing headroom as that must be either down to poor silicon (unlikely) or your motherboard/ram holding you back
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My motherboard is DFI Infinity 975GX.

It was the temps that was my main concern. 60C on load going up to 63 on a warm day is not good. :S

I don't know why it messes up above 2.91, I had it at 2.97 last night and this morning it refused to post.

I haven't touched voltages yet, which is probably why it is unstable, but I didn't want to up my voltages if my temp is already 60C.
 
OzyOly said:
My motherboard is DFI Infinity 975GX.

It was the temps that was my main concern. 60C on load going up to 63 on a warm day is not good. :S

I don't know why it messes up above 2.91, I had it at 2.97 last night and this morning it refused to post.

I haven't touched voltages yet, which is probably why it is unstable, but I didn't want to up my voltages if my temp is already 60C.
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Are you sure your CPU cooler is fitted properly? Even with my vcore up to 1.45 I'm only seeing a max of 50 degrees under full load.
 
Cuchulain said:
Are you sure your CPU cooler is fitted properly? Even with my vcore up to 1.45 I'm only seeing a max of 50 degrees under full load.
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At stock speed I have 35Idle, 45 load.

At stock voltage, with FSB set at 292MHz my CPU goes upto 60C on load and about 52C idle.

I think the cooler is set right, it's a Ninja syth mini, so not the best cooler, but I did use AS5.
 
OzyOly said:
Oh and my NB goes through the roof. When I got my CPU upto 3.02GHz my NB was at 70C.
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I'd probably plump for a new motherboard then instead of watercooling, something that's proven to work well with your CPU, I know Asus are better for the 6600's and the Gigabyte DS's are (were) better for 6300's etc but I'm not sure about yours, I'm someone will recommend something though.
 
chaparral said:
I wouldn't recommend a Zalman Reserator1 or 2 for good temps for overclocking...There not made for this..
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What would you recommend? I don't want by PC to sound like a jet engine btw. :P
 
OzyOly said:
And is it quiet?

At the moment my PC is something around 40dB.
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Yes my fans on my rad are very quiet....

Wish i could say the same for my NB fan and HHD fans :mad:

The big problem is...as soon as you make one part of your system quiet,you start to hear all the other parts ;)
 
chaparral said:
Yes my fans on my rad are very quiet....

Wish i could say the same for my NB fan and HHD fans :mad:
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Well my HDs are cool and quiet with their SilenX fan. I was thinking of watercooling the NB because of the crap it's giving me, at the moment it only has a passive cooler.
 
OzyOly said:
Well my HDs are cool and quiet with their SilenX fan. I was thinking of watercooling the NB because of the crap it's giving me, at the moment it only has a passive cooler.
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I got a waterblock for my NB which i haven't fitted yet...As am waiting to get hold of a matching SB waterblock..(nowhere has one instock :( )
 
Also, if you are monitoring this thread. How do I overclock my RAM?

I have an options for different frequencies in my bios, but no actual divider. Increasing my FSB has increased the RAM frequency a bit (845MHz DDR) but How do I clock that further without having to increase the FSB further (because that would increase my CPU which I don't want to do and the multiplier is locked so can't under clock it :( )
 
chaparral said:
I got a waterblock for my NB which i haven't fitted yet...As am waiting to get hold of a matching SB waterblock..(nowhere has one instock :( )
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Well, I didn't think of the SB, I have no idea what that them is, at all.
 
Have you got not got a option in your bios to unlink your memory ???

My EK-NB block
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