I ran across this one VGA cooler that people used to replace the stock (and rather useless POS) HSF that DFI included for their chipset. So I bought the Evercool VC-RE. http://www.jab-tech.com/Evercool-VC-RE-Twinkling-VGA-Cooler-pr-2291.html So I slapped it on (holes match up nicely unlike my Iceberg4 HSF) and fired it up. I got a 10C reduction in temperature. Now I could prolly get it lower if I can somehow manage to redirect the heat from my 6800Ultra (that dumps the hot air all over the chipset heatsink.) Oh yea, that core pic is the uncleaned pic.. That stuff is hard to get off...
Nice Mine's sitting at 46, ambient 26. Although at the moment the stupid 6800GS' fan is drowning out all other fan noise
Thanks! The 6800 Ultra is running supremely hot... Its sitting at 59C idle.... And it ain't even overclocked... I got lotsa stuff in my case thats generating lotsa heat. From my CPU to my Ram to my 6800 Ultra... I really need a cooler for my 6800 Ultra...
PWM 47C Chipset 55C I think I'm going to upgrade the chipset cooler Phok: You need some airflow around the CPU area, it might crash. Happens to me when I wanted a quieter system... Now my HDD is really whining. Maybe I should just get a HDD replacement instead of the speakers...
My X1800XL also runs as hot as that even without overclocking. When overclocked, it goes as high as 65~75c When it reaches ~79c, my whole system will lockup Luckily I managed to mount the SP-97 on it Now the temperature can never go above 60c in air-conditioned room even after heavily overclocked. However if no air-con I think it will go above 60c.
it's been running at around 55c-60c 24/7 for months. never crashed so dun think im gonna do anything bout it as it's in the case now Im too lazy to open it up again.. before i brought this board back home for my personal use, the PWR used to run at ~65c for months in the labs tahan lasak
Hmm. I think I better run a fan on those chipsinks beside the CPU area... Bah, I'll just get a table fan...
I think my processor doesn't really like high voltage. I'm now down to just 2.6GHz at 1.45V. That could be the reason why it crashed last time.
Hmm... My voltage scaling goes out of the roof after 2.6GHz. I can do 2.6Ghz on stock voltage. After that I have to really crank it up....
that's what majority of the a64 clock. my previous 2 athlon 3200+, my current X2 and a bunch of other samples clock exact the same way as urs. blame the 90nm current leakage. we cant do much about it other than "taruk cooling kao kao".
My Opty 144 clocks very similar to PsYkHoTiK and Uncle's A64. After 2.6GHz need to increase the voltage a lot Currently testing it at 2.8GHz.
I'm thinking of bumping the vcore up a tad bit more.. I want 2.8GHz.... It will now boot but will get the IRQ Equal To Or Less BSOD the moment I start stress testing...