eXtreme Air Cooling - Build Log + Overclocking

You're getting load temps of 40C @ 3.6ghz on air? I hate you! Will be watching the rest of this with very keen eyes :) Cheers!

Btw, what sort of noise is it producing to get to those temps?
 
Well just a quick update for you all... Just started a run at 3.745ghz has passed the intel burn test so now it has to sit doing prime for 4 hours :) anyways thought it might be interesting just to show you a comparision between new and old... so firstly a screen shot of the old rig running prime at 3.745ghz

Old Setup:

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New Setup:

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Ambient Temp is 24c and fans at 16v... 10 - 16c difference on the cores compaired to the previous setup :) and we arent even at full powah yet :D
 
CyZMyAssBaby said:
Looking forward to the end result m8. Will re-visit in 6 hrs after a couple of sherberts :D
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Good to see you back on these boards and posting!

The 3.745 run I terminated last night after a cycle and a bit (about 3 1/2 hours) no issues there at all :) temps stayed nice and even for the whole run..

Will be messing with a 3.825ghz run tonight, just waiting for the misses to go to bed as the fans are to loud for her to hear the TV in the other room and well I value my balls...

Am keeping to jumps in relation to my original clocks as it is firstly providing a reference point back to the old board (have my spreadsheets!) and also a reference to the extra cooling performance the new rig has.. I think I am finally getting a "feel" for the new motherboard.. but some many extra settings to play with :)

Its a bit slow going I know! and I would like nothing better than to jump in at 4ghz+ but I think in the long run working up is giving me a better understanding of the board and also what does / doesnt work in regards to settings
 
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ok well tonights run is underway... not far into prime run but the temps have stabalised and I want to get back to watching TV (upstairs as its to loud down!) touch more vcore in this run compaired to my previous at 3.825ghz as the burn test was not happy with the vcore I had used previously..

3.745ghz - 3.825ghz is a suprising big jump in vcore as well requires an extra .064 vcore for 80mhz compaired to 3.825ghz - 4.023ghz which needs extra 0.048 vcore for 198mhz.. 3.906ghz only needs and extra 0.008 vcore above the 3.825ghz vcore to be stable.. We are also now into what I am going to call the "temperature critical zone" for lack of a better phrase! I find that below 1.47/1.48 vcore or there about the CPU will prime at well into the mid 70's (havent tried running it any warmer!) without issue... as soon as I pass the 1.47/1.48ish vcore I have to keep the temps below 63/64c any core that touches that temperature is an immediate fail in prime.. no idea why.. but I know w3bbo had a similar issue at high clock speeds with his.. would be interesting to know if anyone else has experienced this?

CPU's funny things!

So some screen shots for you and now just to leave it to run a cycle..

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