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Snograt

Snograt

Snograt

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Hi, virgin nublet posting here.

I have a nice qx6700 with a pair of 8800GTX humming away alongside. Also, a totally irrelevant quartet of 2GB Ballistix Tracers, 800Mhz, 4-4-4-12 I believe. Purely for the sake of filling all those sad-loking empty slots - you know how it is.

However - I am not in the habit of overclocking so have never bothered to look at temperatures, assuming that it's bound to be cool enough if not pushed, right?

Wrong.

Motherboard 42 °C (108 °F) 43 °C (109 °F)
CPU 53 °C (127 °F) 50 °C (122 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 70 °C (158 °F) 66 °C (151 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 68 °C (154 °F) 63 °C (145 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #3 63 °C (145 °F) 60 °C (140 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #4 67 °C (153 °F) 61 °C (142 °F)

The bolded temperatures are AFTER I switched the CPU fan to 100% - the other figures are 80%. I can cook my breakfast on the damn thing :/

Hah, and I CAN mention who I bought it from, because thay aren't competitors - ANY MORE.

Bloody Evesham.

Bloody Evesham who went bust then tried to sell me a warranty I already bloody paid for.

/rant

Hmph, anyway - where was I?

Oh yes.

To cure this overheatingness, I ordered a Zalman CNPS7500-CU cooler, 4 Zalman ZM-F3 120mm case fans and some Artic Ceramique thermal gunk.

That lot should sort it out, but it shouldn't have got that hot in the first place, right? NB - those temps are IDLE.

PS - hello all ^^

[edit] Oh yeah, don't you just hate when you pay extra for next-day delivery, THEN remember it's a bank holiday? ><
 
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Snograt said:
That lot should sort it out, but it shouldn't have got that hot in the first place, right? NB - those temps are IDLE.

PS - hello all ^^

[edit] Oh yeah, don't you just hate when you pay extra for next-day delivery, THEN remember it's a bank holiday? ><
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Welcome.

You're right, it shouldn't have got that hot, perhaps the HS wasn't seated correctly?

You'd have been better posting before you bought to be honest, to ask for the best things of what to buy.

As for the postage, there's some sort of deal going on at OcUK at the moment, so you might get it tomorrow, I'm not sure, check the thread about it.

Oh god, I just researched that cooler a bit... You really should have posted asking first.

http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2144&page=5
Go down to the bottom (hot) end and there is that cooler
Top of the list is the TRUE, which costs just £4 more.
 
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You're right, I really should have checked in first :/

Bugger.

It was an emergency, though. I've just had to underclock so that it doesn't spontaneously combust. Knocked the multiplier down to 7x from 10x.

(By the way - how come OcUK don't sell air dusters? Major tool in a clocker's bag, I woulda thought...)

Anyhoo, I'm sure I can stick that Zalman on my son's Athlon, so - what would be the best CPU cooler for my rig? Don't recommend anything that won't fit on a EVGA 122-CK-NF68 680i SLI without modification, please. Kama Cross looking good?
 
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The thermalright ultra extreme and the tuniq tower are the two best air coolers on the market. I've no idea if they fit your board, but they are definately worth researching.
 
Nothing wrong with those temps from a QX6700 B3 stepping.
With a Freezer 7 Pro, I was getting temps of up to 70C with this CPU, and it will run for donkeys years at those temps. It is well within Intel specs. You don't need to worry about 70C CORE temps with that CPU. Mine has ran 24/7 fully loaded for a year, and would continue to do so for many years to come.

However recently I wanted to overclock it, so I then bought an Ultra 120 Xtreme which brought the temps down and enabled me to push the clock higher.
 
Thanks for all your input guys - now I'm more confused than ever :D

If I do need even more cooling, I've been pointed in the direction of the Xigmatek HDT-S1283, sadly only sold by [competitor] in this country.

I have heard good things about the Thermalright too - I will check out that and other suggestions.
 
Snograt said:
Motherboard 42 °C (108 °F) 43 °C (109 °F)
CPU 53 °C (127 °F) 50 °C (122 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 70 °C (158 °F) 66 °C (151 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 68 °C (154 °F) 63 °C (145 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #3 63 °C (145 °F) 60 °C (140 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #4 67 °C (153 °F) 61 °C (142 °F)

- those temps are IDLE.
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Are you saying your temps are 60-70c idle? ... so what are they on load, 90c?


I would just re-seat the Intel heatsink and fan before bothering with a new cooler, somethings not right if those are idle temps!
 
Aw, why do you guys all post out of order? I ordered the Zalman, got told it was crap, ordered the Tuniq - now I'm told my nuts are loose.

Time to re-jig the tackle.
 
I tell you something for free - Overclockers may be the best suppliers in the country for computer afficianados, but City Link are doing them no favours whatsoever.

15:40 Friday, May 23, 2008 On route to delivery branch
03:45 Saturday, May 24, 2008 Arrived at Delivery Branch
17:48 Saturday, May 24, 2008 Goods returned to branch
06:18 Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Goods loaded onto a van
13:01 Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Delivery point closed (Carded)
10:08 Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Goods returned to branch
06:36 Thursday, May 29, 2008 Goods loaded onto a van
14:37 Thursday, May 29, 2008 Delivery point closed (Carded)
06:23 Friday, May 30, 2008 Goods returned to branch
11:27 Saturday, May 31, 2008 Goods returned to branch
15:58 Monday, June 2, 2008 Goods returned to branch

That's six times they've attempted delivery - and each time I was home, waiting. We've worked out that the drivers have been going to the wrong address. Bizarrly, I have had orders subsequent to this delivered by City Link - it's as if they just don't want to give me any cooling :/

Seriously guys - switch to damn Parcel Force or something.

Another system crash inspired this post - my cores hit 80C+ last night, BSOD then failed after POST. BIOS loaded defaults, now it's failing on floppy drive (trying to find something that's not there). USB keyboard isn't responding, so hopefully all I need is to dig out an old PS/2 to re-organise the BIOS settings.

I'm cross.

Just to put the cherry on the cake, someone's taken a dislike to my little sig, too :(
 
Heh.

Wife bought me a Thermaltake Armor+ for my birthday (I know, I know - you all hate it). Rebuild time - yay!

Nay.

End result - after many many hours of frustration - one kaput memory slot. Slot 0 of course. Will work in EPP using slots 1 and 3, but I can now only use 4 of my 8GB of Ballistix tracer.

Tuniq tower looks the business. Looked at the guide on here about TIM. There's two scools of thought, spreading vs blob-in-the-middle-and-squidge. Let's be professional and spread, thought I. No. No no. Not with Ceramique you don't. It's like trying to spread chewing gum.

Ah well, new 780i on order. Can't afford to upgrade to DDR3 so anything more recent is pointless.

By the way - cores now running between 48 and 54C. At least that's sorted ^^
 
always worth remembering that you temps are effected:

a) by the heatsink

and

b) by the temp of the air going through the heatsink

if you have poor case airflow then doesnt matter what you stick on the CPU its going to get hot if the case air isnt being recycled quick enough..

I am guessing if your original rig what pre built it probably has limited airflow.. ideally you want at least 1 120mm intake and outake with a decent fans.. people spend loads on a heatsink and fans for the heatsink and totally forget about actually making sure the ambient case temp is ok :)
 
Actually, the airflow was pretty decent. It was in a Stacker, which sucked and blowed - but in a good way.

I wanted the Armor+ for more legroom and a big window to show off all the blue and red flashy stuff :)
 
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