Arctic Freezer 7

cr!spy · 15 Aug 2007 at 11:39

I installed one of these the other week and it doesn't really seem to have lowered my CPU temps. I used the Arctic Silver 5 paste as well!

CPU - E6700

Any ideas?

truebluecfc · 15 Aug 2007 at 11:41

You wont notice it as much at idle and at stock speeds, Remember its only a budget cooler and costs £17 it wont make a massive difference.

cr!spy · 15 Aug 2007 at 11:46

Apparently it takes up to 200 hours for the paste to properly take effect... is this true?

truebluecfc · 15 Aug 2007 at 11:49

cr!spy said:
Apparently it takes up to 200 hours for the paste to properly take effect... is this true?

Apparantly yeh although i cant remember mine getting much lower after 200 hours.

Have you actually OC'ed at all? and are you measuring load temps aswell as idle?

cr!spy · 15 Aug 2007 at 12:06

No overclocking as of yet...

I will check idle and load temps tonight, but as far as I could tell it looked no different, maybe 2 - 3 degrees cooler.

When I decide to overclock, would it be safe to take it up to 3.0GHz on that cooler?

Shimmy · 15 Aug 2007 at 12:19

cr!spy said:
No overclocking as of yet...

I will check idle and load temps tonight, but as far as I could tell it looked no different, maybe 2 - 3 degrees cooler.

When I decide to overclock, would it be safe to take it up to 3.0GHz on that cooler?

Yes

truebluecfc · 15 Aug 2007 at 12:22

Well i doubt very much you would notice more than 2-3c difference if its at stock running at idle :rolleyes:

Your notice it more when you come to overclock and when monitoring the load temps.

cr!spy · 15 Aug 2007 at 12:23

Cool! Any ideas what loads temp will be roughly?

Chris Beard · 15 Aug 2007 at 12:29

cr!spy said:
Cool! Any ideas what loads temp will be roughly?

Depends on too many factors. Case airflow (this depends on fans, case, cable management, components and arrangement of all of these), ambient temperature and pressure, dust, mounting of the heatsink, application and type of thermal paste, CPU IHS, component varience, etc etc etc...

cr!spy · 15 Aug 2007 at 12:35

LOL!

Hence I said "roughly".

truebluecfc · 15 Aug 2007 at 12:41

Stock volts i reckon anything from 34-42c idle temps and load anything from 48-55c, complete guess though could be completly wrong.

They were around my temps with my E6600.

cr!spy · 15 Aug 2007 at 12:46

Thanks dude! Will give it a blast tonight and see what happens.

Cheers for your help.