Good Temps?

[Wiggins]

I was bored earlier today so thought I would mod my case with a 12cm fan on the top as exhaust.

It actually dropped my temps by 5c

I could not believe it. Below is with an ambient room temp of 22c.

Are they good temps for my set-up?

 

[WarBird]

they are, what are they like under load though? that's what matters like

 

[MumboJumbo]

You have your ram clocked at a lower speed then your cpu? How comes? Surely that is slowing your pc down quite a bit as your cpu is working faster then your ram is?

 

[Wiggins]

You have your ram clocked at a lower speed then your cpu? How comes? Surely that is slowing your pc down quite a bit as your cpu is working faster then your ram is?

I currently have Samsung 533Mhz in my rig at the moment clocked to 640mhz.

Cannot afford anymore at the moment

 

[MumboJumbo]

But surely by using that ram divider with such a low multiplyer your not getting the full potential out of your cpu?

:EDIT:

Read the cpu as E6850 when its not lol. Is that the highest multi you can put on tht cpu?

 

[ChrisD.]

Don't worry about temps, as long as they are below junction then it's fine. Try and stay about 20 degrees below it.

 

[Wiggins]

But surely by using that ram divider with such a low multiplyer your not getting the full potential out of your cpu?

:EDIT:

Read the cpu as E6850 when its not lol. Is that the highest multi you can put on tht cpu?

Yeah as its locked on 7x. I can drop the multi to 6x but that means cranking the FSB on the board way past 2000mhz and not sure if I would fry it. I do have both the CPU and RAM 'Unlinked' on the Asus so I can crank both up to as far as they can go without bottlenecking.

I am just getting the ambient room temp back to 22c as it was last night and will do some Orthos to see what I get on full load.

 

[Wiggins]

Well I got the ambient room temps back to 22c so thought I would throw Orthos at it for 20 mins to see whether the temps had dropped any. Before the fan mod on the top of my case, I had temps of 58c after 20 mins of Orthos and now i'm getting between 52-54c. I'm happy with that.

 

[WJA96]

You have your ram clocked at a lower speed then your cpu? How comes? Surely that is slowing your pc down quite a bit as your cpu is working faster then your ram is?

He's running an NVidia chipset which allows for calculated negative dividers and the divider barely affects overall speed as you can generally run faster column selects at lower FSB speeds so the data transfer happens at roughly the same rate.

1000MHz CAS5 is basically the same as 800MHz CAS4, which is basically the same as 600MHz CAS3 (200,000 lookups per second) so in each case the potential data transfer rate is the same.

 

[Wiggins]

He's running an NVidia chipset which allows for calculated negative dividers and the divider barely affects overall speed as you can generally run faster column selects at lower FSB speeds so the data transfer happens at roughly the same rate.

1000MHz CAS5 is basically the same as 800MHz CAS4, which is basically the same as 600MHz CAS3 (200,000 lookups per second) so in each case the potential data transfer rate is the same.

Cheers wja96

Now thats an in depth answer!

 

[NachT]

He's running an NVidia chipset which allows for calculated negative dividers and the divider barely affects overall speed as you can generally run faster column selects at lower FSB speeds so the data transfer happens at roughly the same rate.

1000MHz CAS5 is basically the same as 800MHz CAS4, which is basically the same as 600MHz CAS3 (200,000 lookups per second) so in each case the potential data transfer rate is the same.

Hi ;P sorry if I steel the thread a tiny bit.

If I have 600MHz CAS3 RAM, would there be any point in upgrading to 1000MHz CAS5 RAM ?