Asus P8P67 and Venom Temps

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Evening all,

I upgraded my C2D E6200 setup today to an i5 Sandy Bridge, setup includes the following:

Mobo: Asus P8P67 Pro
CPU: i5 2500K
RAM: Corsair Vengeance (2x4GB)
CPU Cooler: Akasa Venom

I haven’t yet scouted the forum to see how others have setup their Venom, but I had to do so in such a way that the fan is mounted at the rear of the heatsink and is sucking through the heatsink and blowing it directly into my rear fan which is pushing it out of the case.

Mounting the fan at the front and pushing air into the heatsink wasn’t an option, it covered the RAM slots; likewise, mounting it in a position to push air into the heatsink and up into the PSU fan wasn’t an option because there wasn’t much space between the fan the and the graphics card.

At the moment the mobo is reporting a CPU temperature of 45-50c, while the Asus utility under windows is reporting 41c. These temperatures are under idle.

I’ve used the thermal compound provided with the Venom.

Do these temperatures seem a little too high for idle? If so, any advice on how to lower them? (Different cooler installation method, compound etc).

I’d like to OC the machine, but before I do that I’d like to get the temps down a little.

Thanks in advance,
Craig
 
Hi Craig - I know it's not ideal but have you tried turning the Venom HSF around so that 2 of your RAM slots are covered but only just to test to see what temps you then get and if the difference is worth it?

After all you can still house your 2 sticks of 4GB in to the other 2 available Ram slots as I've read others on these forums have had to do this with the exact same components.

If you test this out please let me know what the difference in the temps is as I have the same components on order.
 
Evening,

Below is a screen grab of the temps while the fan is mounted at the back of the heatsink and sucking air:

temps1.png


Good news for me, the temps don't change when the fan is installed at the front of the HS as done traditionally, so installation doesn’t really appear to be an issue.

Maybe I need to try different thermal material, I did only use the stuff provided with the HSF.
 
Cheers Gadgetguy,

I took a look at your pics, the Vengeance RAM I have installed has some insanely large heatsinks, high enough to force the silicon mounts coming out to the fan to bend around against the RAM.

I'm unsure how hot the RAM will get, and what the melting point of silicon is, so I've played it safe and have the fan on the opposite side of your install performing the 'suck' motion!

I have some Artic Silver 5 on order, once that arrives, I'll clean-up and reapply and hopefully see a temp drop ready for some OC'ing!
 
Afternoon,

I've applied some Artic Silver 5; temps have dropped by a few degrees, and are more stable across the cores:


Before:
temps2.png


After:
temps3.png



The new screen grabs also take into account a small OC, running at 4.4Ghz with 1.30 vcore. The original post was taking while all settings were set to auto, so in comparison, a good drop in temps.

Critically, the average temp while under full load is below 60c; considering I cant up the vcore too much now, the temps shouldnt rise much above that.
 
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