TR120UExtreme Question..

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Well my temps were rather high first time I installed this new cooler, and after some cable management and lapping I have managed to get it around 10 degrees down - so that is nice :)

But that HS should it be able to "wiggle" on the cpu, I feel I can slide it a little to the left and right after it has been fitted very hard...?
 
Cheers.

Still my temps are not like I want 'em to be... 37 degrees idle stock q6600 :( so I might need to see if some washers will do the trick...

I mean I have cleaned the whole case, fixed the wires, lapped the HS and CPU for hours, lots of room inside the case.

2 120mm intake in front and 1 120mm exhaust a long with 3 80mm exhaust in top o0.. Motherboard 34 degrees idle in a normal 20-something degree room.

Hhmmm... any ideas?
 
Has the case been modded?

You might not have the right 'vaccum' effect with the positioning of the fans.

Which way is the fan pointing on the cooler?
 
well any air heatsink is dependant on how much air you can pass through it and how quickly you can recycle the air in the case...

Is a pretty large differnce in the cooling capasity of my Ultra-120 with different fan speeds enabled - simulating lower RPM fans.. Will set all case fans to the same speed step up as the heatsink fan to simulate the recycling of air and run each fan speed for a couple of mins to get a temp readout

Idle Temps @ Present: no idea what ambient is I would guess around 21c
CPU @ 3.906Ghz @ 1.512 windows vcore

Fan @ 1000 RPM: 36/38/36/36

Fan @ 1500 RPM: 34/36/34/34

Fan @ 2000 RPM: 33/35/33/33

Fan @ 2500 RPM: 32/35/32/32

Fan @ 3000 RPM: 31/34/31/31

Fan @ 3500 RPM: 30/32/29/29

Will not run full load as well fans will need to be at 3000 RPM+ to keep the CPU at a "reasonable" temp, but will run a prime95 blend test result below:

Fan @ 1000 RPM: 70/70/66/66

Fan @ 1500 RPM: 68/68/65/65

Fan @ 2000 RPM: 66/65/63/63

Fan @ 2500 RPM: 60/60/56/56

Fan @ 3000 RPM: 56/56/52/52

Fan @ 3500 RPM: 52/52/48/48

So as you can see the amount of air passing through the case and Heatsink has a large effect on temps...

p.s. i know this is not "that" scientific but demonstrates the principle well
 
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Cheers...

I understand the principle, did not know there was such a big difference :eek:

My cpu fan runs at a constant around 1300rpm, and under prime95 load temps are 50,50,45,45 at stock speed - does not get any higher than that... So perhaps with a faster fan I would be able to get better temps.. hmmm..
 
Bigger fan certainly help on load temps and at higher vcores... the difference in the amount of heat that your heatsink has to deal with as you overclock it is quite large is an artical somewhere about the Q6600 Watts output as you increase clockspeeds and voltage will try and find it
 
Pneumonic said:
Bigger fan certainly help on load temps and at higher vcores... the difference in the amount of heat that your heatsink has to deal with as you overclock it is quite large is an artical somewhere about the Q6600 Watts output as you increase clockspeeds and voltage will try and find it
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Be interesting if they compare g0 to b3, i really doubt theres that much difference between them heatwise, probably less than 10c. Read on the toms hardware forum that some people think the b3 uses 130watts, theres 10 watts between it and g0.
 
I have a G0 Q6600 and a B3 QX6700. The QX6700 runs 10C hotter at the same clock speed and with same cooler, sometimes a little more
 
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