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XP-120 + decent 120mm fan tbhMeetgrinder said:Further to this I think I've gone as far as I can go on this cheap motherboard/with this cooler. After reseating HSf (AF64 Pro) it's made no diff to temps - I saw 58 deg c whilst running prime95 and that's just after a couple of tests on the first run, so not even sure if it's fully stable. Changed HTT to 3x (it was previously running at 5x 279) and it didn't make any difference.
My own conclusion is that the artic freezer pro 64 is overrated as a cooler. It may well work great for other people in other systems, but for me it's not been great. Cheap motherboard isn't great either - some more memory tweaking would be nice to squeeze out a few more mhz from the OCZ ram.
Maybe gonna order another Gigabyte G Power pro (it's great on my x2) until I can get my water cooling sorted, and another motherboard bought (roll on payday - again). Just short of 800mhz overclock is great value for this chip, and maybe I'm expecting too much of a HSF - time to up the cooling and the machine specs, and aim for 3ghz!
(or I might have hit this particular chips ceiling and be wasting my time!)
The stickers on the CPU.
