The difference good cooling makes...

bikes · 5 Mar 2008 at 20:30

^ Thanks for that matey. Was just curious, seeing that I've never seen anyone post about it before. Let alone on a 65nm cpu.

Brizzles · 5 Mar 2008 at 20:45

Stonedofmoo said:
It jumps from 1.33v at idle to 1.4v under load in Prime95 torture.

Yes , that is normal and i expect that.

Jokester said:
We're not talking about that, it's the VID, your first shot shows a VID of 1.2625V, you're second shows a VID of 1.1625V.

This is what i am talking about - The VID NOT The VCore

The reason i have taken an interest is that in a previous post you were running at 91 degrees and tbh i'm surprised the chip still works.

Mark

Stonedofmoo · 5 Mar 2008 at 22:20

Oh what's the VID then? :confused:

This might explain my confusion, I thought you were referring to the CPU core voltage.

I only ran the chip long enough at 90 degrees to take that screenshot really, it was obvious there was a problem but people kept insisting the AC7 Pro was up to the job despite evidence to the contrary

I took it off, lapped it and got lower temps but they were still much too high so I invested in the Tuniq and the Antec 900 and thats really done the trick

platinum87 · 5 Mar 2008 at 22:24

mrdbristol said:
in a previous post you were running at 91 degrees and tbh i'm surprised the chip still works.

Mark

if my temps reach 80, i will rip the plug right out of the wall., to be honest i would prefer my q6600 to stay below 50 degrees at all times, anything over = make changes until it is below.

right now my 4400 never goes above 40...

Stonedofmoo · 10 Mar 2008 at 16:11

mrdbristol said:
1.2625 > 1.1625 V ?

The VID doesn't change on mine , regardless of idle/load or speedstep .

Mark

Ah btw I solved this mystery.

Looking in the BIOS I found the VTT FSB Voltage is set to 'Auto' so it's my board increasing and decreasing the VID voltage depending on the load. I can set it manually if I wish but there wouldn't seem to be a lot of point.

Mattus · 10 Mar 2008 at 21:48

I bet most of the difference was the case. I went from a crappy generic case to Antec P182 and my CPU temps dropped 20deg with the same cooler.

platinum87 said:
if my temps reach 80, i will rip the plug right out of the wall., to be honest i would prefer my q6600 to stay below 50 degrees at all times, anything over = make changes until it is below.

I think that's too conservative. Whilst constantly running at 90c isn't too good, these things are designed to run fairly hot. You could certainly go up to 70c without having any problems. Getting an overclocked quad below 50c at load is difficult.