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Hi, I recently bought an Arctic Freezer 7 Pro and mounted it on my Q6700 and I was very pleased with the decrease in temperature and noise that it gave me.
I decided that seeing as I was now at quite a low temperature that I'd overclock the chip to get a bit more out of it.
I got from 2.66 to 3.0GHZ and decided on 333 FSB x 9 as it gave me greater bandwidth and it was about 5 degrees cooler than 300 x 10. With 333 x 9 I was getting about 72 degrees with all 4 cores fully loaded with orthos. I wanted to drop this temperature silghtly and read somewhere that Asus mobos often give processors more vcore than they require when set to auto in the BIOS. I'm on an Asus P5W DH Deluxe, so with this in mind I changed my vcore from auto to 1.25v. This dropped my temperatures to low-mid 60s under full load and I was very happy with it.
I decided to try and take a couple more degrees off by replacing the stock thermal paste on the Freezer with AS5. I had to remove the retention arm during this application so I could determine the correct direction I should run the paste along the IHS according to Arctic's website. When the mount was complete, possibly because I unhooked the retention arm, on boot I was notified that I had a new processor installed and had to either confirm my values in the BIOS or revert to the default settings. Accidently, I reverted back to the original BIOS settings and the PC booted unoverclocked; no biggie I thought.
I went into my BIOS again to set up my previously stable overclock of 333 x 9 with vcore at 1.25 and after saving the changes the PC didn't post and my monitor went to standby. I've tried reapplying my overclock and I can get my FSB and multiplier where I want them but I can't manually set my vcore to 1.25 (where it was stable with lower temps previously.)
Does anyone know how I can solve this problem?
I decided that seeing as I was now at quite a low temperature that I'd overclock the chip to get a bit more out of it.
I got from 2.66 to 3.0GHZ and decided on 333 FSB x 9 as it gave me greater bandwidth and it was about 5 degrees cooler than 300 x 10. With 333 x 9 I was getting about 72 degrees with all 4 cores fully loaded with orthos. I wanted to drop this temperature silghtly and read somewhere that Asus mobos often give processors more vcore than they require when set to auto in the BIOS. I'm on an Asus P5W DH Deluxe, so with this in mind I changed my vcore from auto to 1.25v. This dropped my temperatures to low-mid 60s under full load and I was very happy with it.
I decided to try and take a couple more degrees off by replacing the stock thermal paste on the Freezer with AS5. I had to remove the retention arm during this application so I could determine the correct direction I should run the paste along the IHS according to Arctic's website. When the mount was complete, possibly because I unhooked the retention arm, on boot I was notified that I had a new processor installed and had to either confirm my values in the BIOS or revert to the default settings. Accidently, I reverted back to the original BIOS settings and the PC booted unoverclocked; no biggie I thought.
I went into my BIOS again to set up my previously stable overclock of 333 x 9 with vcore at 1.25 and after saving the changes the PC didn't post and my monitor went to standby. I've tried reapplying my overclock and I can get my FSB and multiplier where I want them but I can't manually set my vcore to 1.25 (where it was stable with lower temps previously.)
Does anyone know how I can solve this problem?
