Yer that seems the one to get with 2 fans but which apache or or noctua fans ?
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Yer that seems the one to get with 2 fans but which apache or or noctua fans ?
Prolimatech Megahalems Performance CPU Cooler (Socket 775/1366) - £44.99
Akasa AK-FN057 Apache Super Silent 120mm Fan - 4 Pin PWM - £27.96
Prolimatech Fan Wire Clip x2 - 120mm x 38mm 120mm x 38mm - £6.88
Akasa AK-CB002 PWM Fan Splitter Cable Akasa AK-CB002 PWM Fan Splitter - £3.44
Total : £83.27
That's presuming you get free shipping then the 1156 bracket to purchase which hasn't even been announced yet, so no ta. Just out of curiousity though and since you're so honest. What temp difference did you see with the Prolima and H50 with push pull?. I suspect very little and at least not enough to write the H50 off as a bad product and a "mistake" as you say..
If the Corsair H50 cannot do 4Ghz, then neither can the Prolima, the temperature differences are NOT that big.
That's all I'm saying on the matter this thread is getting clogged up yet I'm awaiting peoples clocks as they recieve kit this week.
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OK - so how are you going to mount 2 fans then? One of the big issues on the H50 thread is what size and where to obtain the 4 extra screws to put the second fan on.
Fine, that's still not £50 though is it?
I'm struggling to see how trying to stop people re commending something they've never used to get an overclock they haven't achieved is having a bad attitude, but if I've come across a bit strong then I'm sorry about that.
Hey, I'm just trying mine out at 'stock' now and it's not exceeding 45C under Prime 95
What overclock are you getting with 1.15V?
Please note that my office is air-conditioned to 18C so I have REALLY low idle temperatures.
Quite possibly - for some reason mine isn't identifying it's VID, but I'd still be having to have almost every bad CPU sold by OcUK to get the results I'm getting across all my systems.
I'd like to see you run your 4Ghz on the Prolima when the 1156 is out, I'm dieing to see what that baby can do
Oddly enough, I'm having a bracket made as we speak. If he pulls his finger out, you might not have to wait very long. Of course then everyone will say I have some special 'trick' bracket or something, but there you go.
I'm not making any great claim for the overclock below - that's 1.15V set in BIOS with LLC turn ON ie. disabled in BIOS
So that's 3.25GHz and 1.16V on CPUz. I'm not making any great claims about stability (Prime for 10-15 mins is what they use in the H50 thread for a quickie) but it's certainly the case that to get that last 750MHz stable I'm having to pump in a huge amount of extra voltage.
That could be because the board I'm using is only 6-phase and the ASUS boards are anything upto 24 phase, or it could be I have a duff CPU or it could be that that's how they are.
With Q6600's you could get 3.2GHz easily with very low voltages but to go to 3.6GHz required lots more and to get it over 3.8GHz you were almost always running 1.5V or more and that made them very hot indeed.
Until a few more folks start posting anything, we won't know and that's why I'm recommending playing it safe on the cooling front.
I am running a 3.3GHz with 1.1 volts according to CPU-z and set to 1.08 in the bios, stable on prime for about 2 hours amd I reckon I could get a bit more while keeping temps below 75 on stock cooling. Going to play about it later.
Thats similar to what I'm experiencing, your chip sounds very similar, what is the FPO (it's on the box)
That is using 165x20, I cant use 21 for some reason... temps are around 70-75. I might just be able to knock off some voltage but I dont think it will be prime stable.
FPO is L924B290T
Now this is odd - I can't get 3.3GHz on 1.1V but I can get 3.8GHz with 1.216V according to CPUz (It appears to be flicking the multiplier up to 24x when it's idling but it drops to 21x when it's loaded. I'm sure it's just an 'artifact' of the fact that CPUz is older than the CPU's it's reading.
That sounds mentally high for 1.1V. If you can't use Turbo Mode you must have disabled EIST and C1E in the BIOS somehow.
Yes I disabled them both to see how high I could get, the game I play is very CPU intensive so wanted as high as I could get.
I'd like to see you run your 4Ghz on the Prolima when the 1156 is out, I'm dieing to see what that baby can do
If you look back, you'll see that Duke couldn't get 4GHz stable using (I think) 1.4V and a Noctua. To get 3.8GHz stable he was using 1.4V and hitting low 70's celcius.
I've basically done the same 1.168V thing you posted, but I've got another 100MHz or so for the same voltage. And Ben90's screenshots show his is within a whisker at 1.12V. On that basis, I'd have to say mine looks surprisingly normal at the sort of speeds everyone else is running. The question is - does yours scale any better than mine or Duke's?
Stock cooling though it's pathetic I'm surprised it's up to the job of cooling anything tbh
Got a link to these uber-wafers?
Guy on XS using the xtreme version, nothing between that and the quiet version however. I have go post some stuff I'll get some when I get back.
He got up to 4.2Ghz afaik and someone else got 4.2 with a Coolmaster TX3 lol
