1st attempt, comments and question?

scook94

scook94

scook94

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Hi, Got myself a new PC this week and have been trying to get it OCed. Specs are as follows.

Abit IP35 Pro
Q6600 - G0
4x 1Gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer - PC-8500
Asus GeForce 8800 GT
Antec P182
Arctic Freezer 7 Pro
Arctic Silver 5

I've got it stable at 3402 Mhz (9x378) and setting Vcore to 1.3575 and Vdimm 2.1 in the BIOS.

From the image below I have a few questions:

1) Are these temps typical for the Acrtic Freezer (I fitted it with the board in the case and wasn't too happy as I found it quite fiddly, I feel I may need to re-fit outside the case)?

2) With Vcore set at 1.3575 in the BIOS and CPU-Z reporting 1.27, is this just Vdroop and is that sort of difference typical for this board?

Anyway TIA, and thanks for the tips I've gleaned so far just browsing this forum!

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Good work. Post your CPU-z RAM page mate.

Temp does seem a little high but it does take a while to "Break the heatpaste in" :) Did you use the factory fitted HSF paste or AS5?

Here's mine (watercooled) :)

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Thanks for the reply Andy. I used the AS5 after cleaning off stuff that came on the cooler. I should have time at the weekend to take the motherboard out and make sure I reseat the cooler properly.

In the mean time I've backed off to 3096Mhz and dropped the Vcore and temps are now down to 61-59. I know I should be able to get better than this, although ultimately I doubt I'll reach your speeds on air and still keep the temps down to acceptable levels. i.e. where the fans don't have to ramp up too much! :)
 
Keep at it mate. Many people have hit 3.6GHZ on Freezer 7 pro's and Tuniq Towers and just look at this guy on OcUK forums:

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Never give up :D
 
:)

have a new setup in the planning / inital build stage should be a good read once I get paid end of the month and can really start getting into it
 
Just a quick note to the OP: You're using speedfan for the temps. Have you already added 15c to each of the core temps or not?

Speedfan doesn't calculate correct temps for the Quad core yet.
 
Waxmyballs said:
Just a quick note to the OP: You're using speedfan for the temps. Have you already added 15c to each of the core temps or not?

Speedfan doesn't calculate correct temps for the Quad core yet.
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I'm using the beta of speedfan which I believe has that issue fixed, at least, it's reporting the same temps as CoreTemp.
 
scook94 said:
Pneumonic, quick question. Should I stick with the Freezer 7 Pro or do I need a better cooler (Tuniq Tower)?
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Depends on the clock that you want, Tuniq should see you to 3.6Ghz, Freezer will probably limit you around 3.4Ghz (depending on the VID of your Q6600 - i.e. how much vcore you need to achieve the clocks)
 
temps look not bad, 1 or 2 degrees higher than I was seeing at the same speed. Looks like you got a nice low VID chip there as well (anyone got any higher than mine yet 1.3125v lol).
 
I re-fitted my cooler outside the case and put them back in, temps are down slightly to 65,65,62,62 running at 3.402Ghz (9x378) vcore at 1.3757. I've heard the AS 5 needs a few days to "bed in" so I'll leave her like that and see how it goes. (BTW idle temps are ~ 39,34,32,34)
 
Pneumonic said:
Depends on the clock that you want, Tuniq should see you to 3.6Ghz, Freezer will probably limit you around 3.4Ghz (depending on the VID of your Q6600 - i.e. how much vcore you need to achieve the clocks)
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thats a very good clock pneumonic, im only running a dual core at 3.6 under a freezer 7 pro, cheap as chips but it does the job
 
tbh though pneumonic it really depends on how good the air flow in your case is, in my antec 900 the freezer keeps my quad clocked to 3.5ghz at 59C under full prime load, I think thats OK?
 
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