Ready to start OC'ing

paradisiac · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:09

L1ght said:
Nah found it, but does not seem to of made much of a difference. I'm guessing I need to fit my cpu cooler, which I'll do friday night when I've got some time.
Still running idle at around the 70's

idle at 70s?

L1ght · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:12

Well running my OS and speed fan at around the 70 mark.

paradisiac · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:12

whats it clocked at at the moment?

L1ght · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:14

2.67GHz

paradisiac · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:15

thats still very high, mine sits at 54-58 with just windows, realtemp and cpu-z.
what did you set your vcore to?

L1ght · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:20

1.10000, I'm not sure about the number of 0's but you get the idea. Do you recommend I lower the voltage to anything else?

paradisiac · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:22

not sure, mine is running at that, was going to start going lower but my new heatsink and fan should be here tomorrow and i have been at work the last couple of days.
i wouldnt put it down to vcore though, seems a tad high for just that. what does it max at when running something like OCCT?

L1ght · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:26

I'm not sure I haven't got round to installing OCCT yet. I've just got speed fan running and monitoring my temps. My graphics card seems to be quite high aswell at around the 60-65 mark. I used to use smart doctor which would cool the card whenever it got over 50, but win7 doesn't seem to like the application.

paradisiac · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:29

dont think that is excessivly high for a gfx card.
i would do a few stress tests, might find yours idles high but doesnt rise to much under load.

L1ght · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:37

Ok cool, well i think I'll see what the temps read when I install my new cooler, and if the temps are still high at 2.67ghz then I know theres a more serious problem.
In the meantime I've got my side panel off and the temps are down to the mid 60's at running OS, 64bit Shiretoko, Wintv7 and speed fan.

paradisiac · 20 Jan 2010 at 19:44

well if you have the side of the case off, dig out a desk fan you tucked away for the summer and blast that in there, should make the temp drop

L1ght · 20 Jan 2010 at 22:56

I'll hang it out the window aswell

paradisiac · 20 Jan 2010 at 23:00

have you attempted any kind of oc yet?
something i will try tomorrow i think as its getting late now, but maybe even going up to 3-3.2GHz wont raise the temps anymore.

L1ght · 20 Jan 2010 at 23:29

Nah not yet, but been doing some research. I may aswell wait until the weekend when I put in my cooler.

paradisiac · 21 Jan 2010 at 07:48

when you start let us know. i just tried changing the BLK setting to 150 to see if 3GHz was possible as my temps are sitting around 70-72 now, but pc failed to boot, just went mental with beeping

not sure why as im sure it wouldnt be temp related pre post.

paradisiac · 21 Jan 2010 at 22:15

fitted my arctic freezer and temps are now maxing at 65 under load

i would seriously look at getting your cooler on asap.

L1ght · 2 Apr 2010 at 17:18

Got my titan cooler fitted and windows standing idle is running at 28C-35C, under full load I'm getting 48C-50C. Not bad considering I've been running the system at 80C-99C with the retail cooler. Man I don't think I'll ever go with another retail again.

L1ght · 5 Apr 2010 at 19:01

Here's some shots of my rig: