Loving the PII 720!

gt_junkie

gt_junkie

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Only just got round to fitting my watercooling onto my new AMD setup.

Would have happened sooner but the lack of available AM2 backplates meant i couldn't mount the CPU block until now! :(

Anyway, got there in the end and couldn't be happier.

Only clocked at 3ghz but the temps are wonderful! :D

Idles @ 13c and loads @ 22c...

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Tempted by one of these myself, got PI X3 in my setup at the moment, I hear the PII 720 will do around 3.5 GHz :0 ! What RAM are you using, I've just got some generic carp in my setup so not sure how far I'd be able to lock a 720
 
The chip does run cool but I don't think it runs quite that cool :) Though I could be wrong. What is your ambient (room) temperature ? Water cooling will never take you below ambient, the true chip temp. at idle is probably about 5C to 10C more. Have a poke around the other temperature sensors for something in this range then start OCCT and look for the temperature that changes almost immediately.

The default OCCT cpu readings are wrong on my 720 too but TMPIN0 matches the cpu value from the ASUS Probe software so I use that instead. In fact your Custom Temp1 looks about right.
 
Yeah i thought that. Just surprised that Coretemp and real temp show the same value for the CPU temp??? :confused:

To back it up the temp increased immediately to 20 and then took the following half hour to rise another 2.

My flat was particularly cool this afternoon (at a guess no more than 15c max) so PC temps have always been good for me.

gt
 
With the exception of Asus Probe all the software I've tried reports the same values for cpu temp. and yes, it does behave like a true cpu temperature reading only 10 to 15C lower than I would expect. In my case I know this is wrong, the real temperature cannot possibly be less than the temperature of the water :eek: . Just have to wait for a software or bios update
 
I agree it would be nice to have a true value.

A pity really - especilly since intel had plenty of similar problems with this type of thing too. :(

I'll have a bit of a play tomorrow to track down a temp reading that actually looks (and behaves) right.

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Ah - you know me! It'll definately happen - just need a full evening to get clocking! :D

That said - i need to figure out how to actually clock these AMD's - the bios options are a nightmare. :eek:

As for the temps - i think the water will have been no higher than 10c as before i got home there was no heating on... only an open fire (not burning during the day while i'm out for obvious reasons) and an economy 7 storage heater.

I suppose i just assumed coretemp, realtemp and OCCT would show temps as (relatively) accurately for these phenoms as they did for the intel's i've used in the past. :o

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gt_junkie said:
Ah - you know me! It'll definately happen - just need a full evening to get clocking! :D

That said - i need to figure out how to actually clock these AMD's - the bios options are a nightmare. :eek:

As for the temps - i think the water will have been no higher than 10c as before i got home there was no heating on... only an open fire (not burning during the day while i'm out for obvious reasons) and an economy 7 storage heater.

I suppose i just assumed coretemp, realtemp and OCCT would show temps as (relatively) accurately for these phenoms as they did for the intel's i've used in the past. :o

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when u do find out how to clock them please tell us how u get on step by step; i been looking into amds out of interest and cant find much in the way of what should be overclocked. i hear the NB and HTlink should be overclocked as well as upping the multi since asfaik there is no "fsb" increment to up like intels is there?
 
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