Could anyone help me with overclocking some of my kit? i7 d0 920

bulldog147 · 21 Jul 2009 at 17:32

Voxination said:
That's not liquid, that will be Phase Change.

May I ask you, what is phase change is ? It look like a liquid to me on these picture ?

bulldog147 · 21 Jul 2009 at 17:34

It ok now as I had found of what is a phase change is: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1793

Very interesting thought!

soundb0y · 25 Jul 2009 at 18:47

Okay so im about to reapply the paste now, only just got round to it. Also realised it wasn't as5 i used the first time but will be now. Any tips before I go ahead?

soundb0y · 25 Jul 2009 at 20:38

Okay so something must be wrong, my temps are about 55ish idle non oc'd and WITH the extra noctua fan attached to the cooler. Went past 80 with few mins of prime.

Do not understand!

bulldog147 · 25 Jul 2009 at 22:17

soundb0y said:
Okay so something must be wrong, my temps are about 55ish idle non oc'd and WITH the extra noctua fan attached to the cooler. Went past 80 with few mins of prime.

Do not understand!

I am really so sorry to hear of your problem. Have you try different cpu cooler and try it again, if same problem with temperature, then it could be down to poor air flow in your case or probably too high on vcore, qpi/unicore vtt and cpu pll setting.

I wish I could help you out in person.

soundb0y · 25 Jul 2009 at 23:04

I could try the stock cooler but I cant see it being better. As for airflow I have improved it today by tidy the cables to an extent. Also the bios is on default with no overclock.

Could too much thermal paste do this? I tried putting a thin layer on both the chip itself and the base of the cooler but I wasnt sure how thin to go.

Thanks

soundb0y · 26 Jul 2009 at 14:32

I have heard that too much thermal paste can be a bit of an issue, but surely not to the extent of an extra 10 degrees or so?

DragonQ · 26 Jul 2009 at 14:37

Thermal paste can have that big of an effect easily.

soundb0y · 26 Jul 2009 at 14:48

DragonQ said:
Thermal paste can have that big of an effect easily.

Time to reapply then I guess. Does anyone have a decent tutorial video? I have seen a few on youtube but most are crap.

thanks

DragonQ · 26 Jul 2009 at 14:53

The thin line method on the Arctic Silver site works very well for i7s but make sure you get the arrow in the right corner!

http://www.arcticsilver.com/ins_route_step2intelas5.html

soundb0y · 26 Jul 2009 at 15:16

Okay il try that, you also have the same cooler as me, did you apply it to the heatsink as well or just the chip?

soundb0y · 26 Jul 2009 at 18:01

Running around 42-44 now with that straight line method. Cheers for the link. Now to see if i can OC it again without temps going ape.