Q6600 Cooling advice

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I'm looking to build a new rig with An Antec 900 case, Asus P5K-E and either the artic cooling Freezer 7 or the Tuniq tower 120, will either of these coolers have any problems with my chosen mobo? I'm looking to get a 3.4Ghz OC if possible :D
 
To be honest I think you will struggle with anything over 3ghz with the Freezer 7. I have it installed and at 3ghz it's fine, but get's toasty at 3.2 and above.
 
Diggsy said:
To be honest I think you will struggle with anything over 3ghz with the Freezer 7. I have it installed and at 3ghz it's fine, but get's toasty at 3.2 and above.
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Yeah I`ll second that, thats what`s happening to me at the moment, 3.2 is probably my limit with temps a tad over 60 c in TAT on full load.My case is a thermaltake xaser III ( I know ,I know , just can`t part with it):D and has good airflow. I wish I`d of got the Tuniq now

tommysdad
 
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cheers fellas, will look into the tuniq then :D

edit/ cant find anything on the tuniq site regarding mobo compatibility :confused:
 
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Erm...

I'm at 3.4 GHz (430 X 8) with an arctic cooling freezer 7 pro on a Q6600 with max temps under load being 60 degrees (Prime95 small FTT torture test), all in an antec 900 case. That's also using the supplied thermal pad. Oh and an Asus P5E X38 mobo.

So it can be done :)
 
paradigm said:
I was at 3.6GHz on the STOCK cooler without issue :confused:

Currently benching at 4GHz on phase change though :cool:
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Yes, and its not temps that are limiting my overclock. More a lack of patience and an eensy amount of fear in ramping up voltages too much :) Oh and probably RAM that doesn't like being above 860...
 
semper_si said:
Erm...

I'm at 3.4 GHz (430 X 8) with an arctic cooling freezer 7 pro on a Q6600 with max temps under load being 60 degrees (Prime95 small FTT torture test), all in an antec 900 case. That's also using the supplied thermal pad. Oh and an Asus P5E X38 mobo.

So it can be done :)
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What are you using to calculate your temps?. If your relying on speedfan (as I was) I thought my temps were fine, try using intel TAT or everest ultimate :eek: otherwise thats a nice OC on air

Tommysdad
 
tommysdad said:
What are you using to calculate your temps?. If your relying on speedfan (as I was) I thought my temps were fine, try using intel TAT or everest ultimate :eek: otherwise thats a nice OC on air

Tommysdad
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Coretemp which gives the highest of all the readings I've taken. It's only after 90mins of stress testing, but the temps weren't really creeping up that much at all. And TBH, the most stress my comp gets is about 2 hours of Medieval Total War 2 (or about an hour of World in Conflict).

EDIT: I'm thinking of buying an external temp display so I get a better idea of what's going on at all times, but I assume that will read the BIOS temps which can be as much 10 degrees below CoreTemp!
 
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Thats a good OC on air then :) , there`s that many different programs and readings it gets a bit confusing.I check with TAT but installed coretemp yesterday

Tommysdad
 
tommysdad said:
Thats a good OC on air then :) , there`s that many different programs and readings it gets a bit confusing.I check with TAT but installed coretemp yesterday

Tommysdad
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Thanks! TBH I was quite surprised too :D, but I'm very happy with it. Must have been a lucky day - of course if it all melts I'll post and vent my fury at CoreTemp ;)
 
Reading this I still might go for the arctic cooler, especially given the evident stock problems with the tuniq at the mo, hmm decisions :D
 
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