Need a tad bit of help

Evil^ · 16 Sep 2009 at 14:53

Today my 2 hard drives and ram arrived and decided i should probably do the ram first, stuck it in and default was 800 mhz so i switched it up in bios and here are my results:

3 mins and not a hitch (did it a quick one just to make sure its good) this is also with prime running in the background which i forgot about

Excuse the temps, this has always been a hot chip unfortunatly, 2 motherboards and 3 coolers have been used on it and its still the same "/

Im not a fountain of knowledge, to me this looks okay however id like a second opinion this is with kingston hyperx btw

Excuse overclock.net i still had it up from when i grabbed orthos

Evil^ · 16 Sep 2009 at 21:27

just checking everything there looks okay really right now, ive had a few times where ive missed something and its gone belly up lol, just spent the past few hours installing xp, fun fun fun

Evil^ · 16 Sep 2009 at 23:59

Plec said:
Other than your settings (15 instead of 18 - but it's no biggie) and additional stress testing - everything looks fine.

What is your case & have you tried clocking the chip?

Even if it is running slightly hot you may still be able to get a reasonable clock at defaults/slightly higher vCore. This would, hopefully, have minimum impact on your existing temps and at least start to justify them.

i unfortunatly havent managed to move out of my Thermaltake shark i got a fare bit ago, but i had just a cheap one before with 4 fans in (1 on top, 1 on side 1 in the front and 1 in the back) and its still ran a tad toasty, every time ive tried to oc its restarted fine but once it starts to load windows just trips and does it over and over again (i think ive not tried in a while i gave up lol) anythings worth a try because i wouldnt mind getting more out of it

Evil^ · 17 Sep 2009 at 01:22

well, i have 2 noctuas one front going in the other on the back going out then a arctic freezer 7 pro, my case is pretty tidy (ill try and get a pic up) and to your last question i have no idea, last time i tried was around a year and a half ago "/

with my case being open on the side i get terrible dust problems so im forever cleaning it out but i must admit lately ive been a bit lazy

What settings should i start out with and slowly work up?

Evil^ · 17 Sep 2009 at 12:04

E6600
Hyper x 1066
GTX260
HX 620w
2xWD 500gb blacks

id say yes that temps are more important too me but a bit of an overclock wouldnt go a miss lol

Evil^ · 17 Sep 2009 at 12:23

i went in the bios, downed the voltage a few times, set it so it runs at 2.4 constantly and heres what i have

thats without running anything to stress etc
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down more

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Even more

i forgot to record temps before i started this and put my case fans on as high as theyll go (fan controlled)
ive left it at the above screenie and waiting for the idle temps to stablise then ill crack on with orthos see if theres much more of a differance
idle temps have reached around 44-46 so on i go

Evil^ · 17 Sep 2009 at 13:06

i use a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R

my idle temps before were around something like top end of 40 idle uner load hitting the 60's

Right now cpuz showing vcore 1.058, 40 idle on both cores and hitting 47 3 mins into orthos
shal i carry on going lower?

Evil^ · 17 Sep 2009 at 13:10

Plec said:
What was the idle vCore?

1.056 my idle temps have dropped to 37 - 39 now and my cpu fan has stopped spinning lol never seen it this low quite shocked lol

Evil^ · 17 Sep 2009 at 13:17

Plec said:
What did you manually set the vCore at in the BIOS?

1.10 something

Evil^ · 17 Sep 2009 at 13:41

yeah i agree, ill probs leave it for now then later on when my internet gets cut to half a meg ill run a stress test and get on with work, thanks for your help mate

time for some cod4 me thinks

Evil^ · 19 Sep 2009 at 17:57

after being on over night while i downloaded ut3 about 40 mins ago it froze, so i left i for a bit upped the voltage to 1.072 so far so good though, reaches around 50 - 52 after a few hours of cod4/LFS

Evil^ · 19 Sep 2009 at 20:13

i got anoyed seeing my temps idle at around 45 however i put a fan at the back of my cooler that i had from an old jeantech case, its like a jet but my temps are:

i was watching my cpu cooler and once my temps start to raise to about 44 the fan comes on however if its below that the fan stays still, anyway i can stop this? so the fan spins say a low rpm even when its that low sort of thing

Evil^ · 19 Sep 2009 at 20:25

my load temps are around 50 odd now, the without that fan in ive seen it hit 53
keep an eye on this thread for the next few mins ill stick a pic up

ok done here we go:

To the right just above my hard drives are where ive ffeded the cards power cords the fan in the front come in just at my first hard drive and covers the bottom 2

i cleaned my cooler as i didnt realise the layer of dust coating it lol

ive noticed soemthing with this case, if i took the front off and theres the fan then theres the usual metal wall then the cage for the hard drives but this is pretty much solid and i cant see how that supports good air flow so at the end of it the sides drawing in and the back fans pretty much doing all the work "/

And here are my immense paint skills:

both the front and the back fan are both on full according to my speed controller

Evil^ · 7 Nov 2009 at 07:40

Couldnt get it stable at all, was a bit of a shame tbh its ended up back to normal volts and even then not 100%....
ive had random restarts, crashes (not blue screens) bit of a shame really

thinking of maybe buying a E5300 or something to replace this not got the money to get a new system unfortunatly