Thermalright Archon

Previous cooler tuniq tower 120 with central tuniq fan set to max very noisy 2000rpm same tests were 75-95c IBT load.
The archons fan is very quiet have to say good job with the fan.

Prime temps are 55-59 load but that's Q6600 @ 401x9 3.6 GHZ 1.46 voltage set in bios load voltage touching 1.47 volts on p5q pro.
With the one 140mm fan @ 1259 rpm I think that's why this is impressive more than anything that it's capable of this at low noise levels.

My akasa amber and yate loon @ 1500 and 1350 rpm are noisier.

I'll do a reseat tomorrow with my normal blob in middle spread and try after with the yate loon added as a pull fan if I see a good difference I'll be buying another thermalright 140mm fan.
 
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vcore set to 1.46 in bios same config just the one fan pushing
As you can see i get lower temps when not doing 44gflops a second and tbh am scratching my head as to why it was 35 average on this run
seems you do have to set the ram correctly at the time of testing or something.
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C64 said:
vcore set to 1.46 in bios same config just the one fan pushing
As you can see i get lower temps when not doing 44gflops a second and tbh am scratching my head as to why it was 35 average on this run
seems you do have to set the ram correctly at the time of testing or something.
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Sometimes what I have found is that if the custom value that you choose is very close to the 'Free' memory value, you can also get lower GFlops. I think this could be some sort of software bug. It's best to have atleast 100-200MB difference between the custom ram value and the 'Free' ram.

If you want to increase the 'Free' memory available to you, run IBT on maximum for 20-30s.Then stop the program and you should notice an increase in 'Free' memory and consequently an increase in 'Available' memory and decrease in 'Cached' memory. So if you were at 1500Mb 'Free' memory and you ran IBT on max stress level for 20-30s, the 'Free' memory should increase to 2000MB or above. Repeat and values should increase further until you can get no more increase in 'Free' memory as the rest is used by windows, device drivers, background processes and cached data etc.

For my 4GB ram, I can get 3300MB of 'Free' memory. So if I use 2500MB in custom stress test, this is leaving atleast 800MB of 'Free' memory untouched and this should help with GFlops values.

What you may have noticed is that if the 'Free' memory was say 2100MB and you opened IBT and decided to use 2000MB; by the time you inputted the required amount, 'Free' memory may well have gone down to 1900MB as windows seems to love using more ram for caching and paging, so you totally used up the 'Free' physical memory and now require little bit of extra memory either freed up from the cache memory or given to you as a virtual memory.

It may well be that the IBT program is more sensitive on your PC than on mine so you may need to rerun it 3-4 times to get 43-45GFlops during stress test.

As I stated in the' best stability tool' thread that 'maximum' stress test usually gives me around 43-44GFlops which is same as given by custom stress testing. However on two or three occasions it has given me 30GFlops and temps were 5-7c lower across all 4 cores. So best to rerun it more than once and see what you are getting :).
 
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Also ensure that EIST and C1E are disabled in bios and any power saving features disabled as I have found out that these features tend to constrain the cpu from using it's maximum potential when processing/executing:).
 
Mike306 said:
Same here!

Yes it should fit, the CM 690 II Advanced allows for a max CPU cooler height of 177.0mm, the Archon is 170.25mm

http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6638

http://thermalright.com/products/?act=data&id=172&cat_id=27
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I'd be very careful making that assumption as I've got the silver arrow (162mm) in the cm 690 II and it barely fits (and I mean barely!) which is why I didn't go for the archon. Would love to know if this isn't the case though as I expect the real world performance is probably about on par with the silver arrow but less wide and not overhanging the ram.
 
chippy08 said:
would like to see results on the sandy bridge 2600k to see if its better than the noctua or not.
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Could well be yet but you can compare the d14 and SA on a Q6600 if you can find people with that combo.

Cant source another thermalright TY-14 yet only one place sells them and is out of stock.
 
C64 said:
1 fan 1.46 vcore in bios
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That's impressive using only one TY-140 fan on the Archon with high GFlops values. [email protected] puts out immense heat so for your temps to stay under 80C in IBT is well worth it as you reported earlier that with your older cpu cooler you went even as high as 95C!!. So hopefully the 2nd fan should even lower the temps:).

I would say that your [email protected] is stable enough:). So now it has been confirmed by C64 that a reduction in GFlops values of almost 8 GFlops resulted in 5-6C lower core temps :).
 
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Yeah, that looks great! I really does go to show that everyones situation is different and things like mounting, ambient temps, air flow, case, etc all make a big difference when people talk about temps and oc'ing. A good effort though! I doubt a second fan would make a massive difference unless you've not already got a great exhaust fan though.
 
MX-3 btw

I haven't reseated yet so stay tuned but I am not buying another 140mm fan as I want another TY-14.
Sorry I have no ambient temps to go by.

This is in a silverstone ft01 with 180mm fan at front kama bay at front with 1x akasa amber at 1500rpm
top fan set as exhaust scythe 800rpm 120mm rear exhaust yate loon sl12.

I need to buy a 180mm fan for the top and 2x case fans not a fan of akasa ambers or ticking yate loons.

I don't know what thermalright is up to in the uk they make great products and you can barely find anywhere to buy it.
 
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Sierry said:
I'd be very careful making that assumption as I've got the silver arrow (162mm) in the cm 690 II and it barely fits (and I mean barely!) which is why I didn't go for the archon. Would love to know if this isn't the case though as I expect the real world performance is probably about on par with the silver arrow but less wide and not overhanging the ram.
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Interesting, now I'm confused.:confused:

So are Coolermaster's specs wrong?

They state on the bottom of the specifications:

Maximum Compatibility
VGA Card length :304.0mm
CPU cooler height:177.0mm

Case width is 214.4mm

Perhaps I better check with OCUK and Coolermaster before ordering.
 
Use a tape measure ? or ask someone with one to ?>

I have a feeling that the archon isn't quite as good as the sa and d14 but it's not far behind probably 1-2 c in it at the higher clocks.
 
Mike306 said:
Interesting, now I'm confused.:confused:

So are Coolermaster's specs wrong?

They state on the bottom of the specifications:

Maximum Compatibility
VGA Card length :304.0mm
CPU cooler height:177.0mm

Case width is 214.4mm

Perhaps I better check with OCUK and Coolermaster before ordering.
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Well the cooler itself would probably fit as I would say there's an extra 7mm from my heatsink to the side of the case but my fan on the heatsink is literally 2-3mm off the side of my case so if it sits any higher on the archon then I don't think it would. I would love to know the answer though as I couldn't find anything on it when I was looking.
 
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I would like to know the answer as well!

I had worked out there would be about 7mm gap. Thight fit and you won't be able to mount a side fan. I recall from reading a review on the Archon, that the supplied fan (Thermalright TY-140) is 'low profile' or something like that. Even though its 140 it fill also fit 120 mountings.

CM690II spec: http://www.coolermaster.com/upload/product_feature/RC690II_adv_SIZE.jpg
 
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