Problems with Freezer 7 Pro

madindehead

madindehead

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I bought myself an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro from Overclockers around a month ago now, hoping to reduce my CPU temps. I had seen plenty of reviews on the site from people saying they were getting nice low idle temps.

However, as I write this, with Core 0 on 19% load it has a temp of 46 degrees C
and Core 1 on 13% load has a temp of 45 degrees C

These do not seem right, for a cooler like this?

I did have some problems initially installing the cooler. Do you think this could have something to do with the thermal paste coming off slightly, or the heatsink not being properly secured to the motherboard?

Just tested my system with Orthos tonight also, with a simple clock to 3.4GHz on my E6850, and CoreTemp was instantly showing temps of 80 degrees C on each core.

If anyone has any ideas for a fix, be it a new cooler, or thermal paste, I would be very grateful to hear them =)
 
Thanks. My old heatsink that I removed had some proper screws in it. Would those work as a better fixing maybe? As much as I don't want to remove my mobo, I may have to now. I really want to clock my E6850, as I hear you can get some good results. That was the main reason for getting this cooler. Will give it a shot tomorrow I think to fix it.
 
WJA96 said:
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro's are brilliant, but they are also highly variable. If you hadn't started your post 'I bought this a month ago' I would have said return it, but have you just noticed these very high temperatures or has something else changed?
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Sadly, I didn't get much time to test it before I went away for a few weeks. But when I installed it, it never did feel 100% secure and on.
 
I think I have solved it!

Removed my motherboard this time, to make sure the pins actually went through properly. Right nuisance they are. Never again. I think my other problem was, the mounting plate for my old CPU cooler was still underneath it. Thankfully, it wasn't fixed, so I moved that, and set to work. Currently running Orthos to check temps, and I now have 54 degrees C at 100% CPU load doing Small FFTs. Does that sound like a good temperature? This is at stock 3GHz by the way =)

Before the CPU would reach 75 degrees C after just a few seconds of that.

Thank you very much for all your help here guys =D
 
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Yeah. I'm not hugely fussed on overclocking the thing a lot. The max I might go to is around 3.5/3.6GHz. At least it's a HELL of a lot cooler than before I fixed it =D
 
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