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dennyb · 07-03-09

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Originally Posted by NoGuru

But you have heard this term around here "Hit a wall". The only thing I do to drop temps when shooting high and not for stability is take the side panel off and point a house fan in there on high. That's called Ghetto cooling but for benching hey it works.

If the pic loads it's just a test.

I thought about the extra fan,but nah. I do have the side off. I checked some posts on XS and they get really high clocks but one guy was running in the 80+ temp range. I'm not goin there. What I want to do if possible is get 4.1/4.2 stable and have temps remain @ 65 C max. I am not comfortable above that temp,so if I have to settle for 4.0 max-I can live with it

Your rig looks clean Bro

edit:Hmmm,ghetto cooling huh, I just wonder how much it will help. Yup,gonna find out,gots to know

grishkathefool · 07-03-09

Denny, does your Antec have a top fan? I guess I could be not lazy and look it up myself... but... However, 4 Cores means more heat... but without seeing a graphic that shows your actual air flow as it is now, I wouldn't be able to figure a way for you to move heat out better.. maybe scratch something together in Paint that shows the fan layout and flow directions for you case? Also, is your HSF sitting right?

Bal3Wolf · 07-03-09

antec900 has 2 front 120mm fans and 1 back 120mm and 1 top 120mm. How he has the bays setup im not sure cause antec900 has 3 bays in front and only 2 of them have fans.

dennyb · 07-03-09

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Originally Posted by grishkathefool

Denny, does your Antec have a top fan? I guess I could be not lazy and look it up myself... but... However, 4 Cores means more heat... but without seeing a graphic that shows your actual air flow as it is now, I wouldn't be able to figure a way for you to move heat out better.. maybe scratch something together in Paint that shows the fan layout and flow directions for you case? Also, is your HSF sitting right?

Ya, sorry for the delay. Top and rear exhaust -two intakes on the bottom front bays. Your question about the HS fan sitting right made me double check. In the process I discovered a film of lint or dust in the HS fins. Picked up a can of compressed air while out for dinner. Just gave it a thorough cleaning and then blew it out. I was surprised that it had accumulated any dust at all . It is only 3 months old. Old people don't like to crawl under desks

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Originally Posted by Bal3Wolf

antec900 has 2 front 120mm fans and 1 back 120mm and 1 top 120mm. How he has the bays setup im not sure cause antec900 has 3 bays in front and only 2 of them have fans.

Thanks Bal3Wolf for covering my back. I need as much assistance as I can get. Now I need to start testing @ higher clocks again to see if temps are better. Between yesterday and today I wasted 16 hrs trying to overclock with a HS that needed cleaning. Lesson learned. Will post back -hoping for improvement

grishkathefool · 07-03-09

hey denny, i am visiting my dad and he ahs an HP with a Q9450 and he has temp issues too; but his are mostly related to poor air flow, a condition the Antec 900 shouldn't suffer from. However, on thing that strikes me as odd, his 4 core temps are ~50,38,42,43... he uses a stock HSF, I am wondering if its not set right?

redalert · 07-03-09

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Originally Posted by grishkathefool

hey denny, i am visiting my dad and he ahs an HP with a Q9450 and he has temp issues too; but his are mostly related to poor air flow, a condition the Antec 900 shouldn't suffer from. However, on thing that strikes me as odd, his 4 core temps are ~50,38,42,43... he uses a stock HSF, I am wondering if its not set right?

those crappy pushpins maybe causing the problem that temperature gap between the cores too wide. My Q9450 was anywhere from 3-6 difference.

dennyb · 07-03-09

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Originally Posted by grishkathefool

hey denny, i am visiting my dad and he ahs an HP with a Q9450 and he has temp issues too; but his are mostly related to poor air flow, a condition the Antec 900 shouldn't suffer from. However, on thing that strikes me as odd, his 4 core temps are ~50,38,42,43... he uses a stock HSF, I am wondering if its not set right?

That does seem to be a little extreme --My #1 always runs about 3/4 C hotter than the other 3 under load. #'s 2/3/4 are real close together under load. At Idle my #4 is stuck @ 40C. Sounds like a re-seat would help him

I am testing 4.1 as I Type -but I will need to find all new #'s as the ones from this past week are now unreliable.

edit: I just aborted the test -Hit 71C 17 min in. Gonna lower the voltage

edit: 27 min in on new test > Temps 67/64/63/63. Voltages In BIOS=V-1.31875, Term-1.28, MCH-1.28, PLL-1.57. Everything else set at "Normal". Going to let it run til I get an error or temps get to 70C. Hope I can lower voltage some more. Won't know until I get further test results.---Error @ 32 min. gotta up the V ,not lookin very good

edit again: well the spring cleaning did not help at all. Am now attempting 4.1 with LLC disabled. hoping that will lower the temps--one thing I have found out about prime testing --at about the 17 minute mark they start asking 5th grade Geography questions

Bal3Wolf · 07-04-09

lol dennyb maybe you got a chip likes to run hot like me no matter what i cant get this quad to run cool on any board. I remounted it like 50 times and i own 2 tuniq towers from when i ran a server and it runs hot on both. 3400@1.23 vcore is all i will do cause im picky with temps that stays under 60c for most part priming and under 50c for other stuff.

ljason8eg · 07-04-09

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Originally Posted by Bal3Wolf

lol dennyb maybe you got a chip likes to run hot like me no matter what i cant get this quad to run cool on any board. I remounted it like 50 times and i own 2 tuniq towers from when i ran a server and it runs hot on both. 3400@1.23 vcore is all i will do cause im picky with temps that stays under 60c for most part priming and under 50c for other stuff.

That's because you have a low VID Q6600. My 1.225 VID ran extremely hot compared to my 1.300 VID. I've heard others with low VIDs also say their chips run hotter than everyone else's.

NoGuru · 07-04-09

That little bit of film on the heat sink makes a small difference but If you stop and clean off your fan blades they will spin faster and make a big difference. But if you want my opinion, if your stable at 4.0 let it be, higher clocks on your chip are not needed unless you just want a bench mark. I bet you can get to windows @ 4.5 get a cpu validation and call it good.
No need to corrupt windows just to get a small 100mhz stable OC.

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