Safest temps for 3700 SD under load?

2bullish · 29 Apr 2006 at 19:52

As the question says, I'm currently running at 51 degrees using prime95 torture test, how much further can I push it?

2bullish · 29 Apr 2006 at 20:10

As it states Im currently running at 51 under load. My ambient temps are 34 at idle. Im running an arctic freezer 64 pro, with the fan at the front sucking in and the one at the back blowing out.

My case is a Antec SLK3800B which has another side hole for a smaller fan, I want to add a fan here as I think my ambient temps are high, should this be blowing air over the cpu or sucking warm air out?

The cpu cooler is facing outward blowing air through the fan thats sucking air out of the back, is that the best way?

Also my temps idle for the cpu are 38, I think thats high am I right ?

2bullish · 29 Apr 2006 at 20:24

Thanks. The rear fan is blowing out, Im a little worried about adding the extra fan as the noise is already high, will the side fan add to the noise or will it just be drowned out by all the other fans?

And how did u get your chip to run at 45 load?

2bullish · 29 Apr 2006 at 20:44

I used arctic silver.

I should have mentioned that the cpu is currently at 250 x 11 = 2750 Mhz at 1.5 v

2bullish · 29 Apr 2006 at 21:24

Unfortunately I cant go past 250 htt no matter what I do, I seem to be hitting a wall after that. It cant be my mem as Im running a divider, not sure what the bottleneck is

2bullish · 1 May 2006 at 08:01

Strike that, I had my freezer pro the wrong way round, temps just dropped by 6 degrees

2bullish · 1 May 2006 at 10:05

I had the HS fan facing towards the rear of the case towards the exhaust fan. I switched it the other way around and now my temps have dropped considerably.

In other words I had it set up the opposite of this...

2bullish · 1 May 2006 at 10:07

Which means I can now up the HTT and get this.....

Just over 2.8 stable