dunx

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My Q6600 has always run hot,even at 2.4 GHz. So I pulled the std. cooler off and re-applied some fresh TIM, it was a whole degree cooler
I couldn't use handbrake as it would eventually ( melt ? ), and reset

So I went down to CCL and bought a new cooler,
It's HUGE !

Now I have got it over-clocked way past 3.4 GHz

Under a 100 % load on all 4 cores ( using handbrake ), the cpu barely reaches 69 degrees C

Buy Zalman CNPS10X Extreme CPU Cooler*CLR4136 from CCL - Online Retailer of the Year 2008, 2007 & 2006 for laptops, desktops and computer hardware

It is huge, I couldn't actually get the PC back together with it fitted !

Managed to bend the retainer for the motherboard backplate, and ease it in.

Bit expensive after my bargain HTPC cooler, ( £13.27 !! a Zalman CNPS-8700-NT ), from OCUK last month, but well worth it IMHO !

HTH

dunx

StickyMicky

How RanDoM, i ordered a new cooler yesterday for my Q6700
Zalman CNPS9500A



Brand New Zalman CNPS9500A LED CPU Cooler 775/939/AM2/3 on eBay (end time 19-Jan-10 20:10:46 GMT)

My Q6700 runs hot, in fact after i clocked it to 3.51ghz, under load it tends to peak at 98 degrees on a few of the cores this is 2 degrees under the thermal shut down, where by the cpu auto lowers the multiplier to dump some heat and protect the chip, fine during the winter months, but yesterday with the heating on full blast at home it started crashing as it was hitting the thermal trip

The current cooler is a thermaltake blue orb mini and apparently was not designed for quads so is struggling.

Hopefully i can start pushing my chip a little more once the crappy cooler has been changed, although i am happy with the performance of 3.51ghz at the moment

dunx

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Blue LEDs make tech so much more interesting.....

Mine has one too !

LOL


Gotta go pick up my 80 GB SSD now

dunx

P.S. One time mine reached -27 degrees, so I turned it off ! Meltdown.

ALi-B

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Strange thing with the quad cores is some of the supplied stock intel coolers are smaller than those suppled with lower speed dual cores

Thus the skyth Mini-Ninja. Mini is somewhat misleading as its a 115x115mm cube!

Problem with these blow-thru coolers is the chipset now runs hotter than what it did with the old blow-down cooler.

GC8WRX

Please report back on the ssd, im after one as my primary boot device!

dunx

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ARGH !

That's all I can say, us old folk don't need this much aggro....

SSD is in and the BIOS can see it fine, W7 said it would sort some drivers and that's it. NOWT ! Can't initialise, format or "see" it in W7.
Device manager isn't any help, drivers are "correct", and disk management isn't able to see the disk.

I thought it had "bricked" it as many Intel X-25M's have done, but....

I reckon it's actually an AHCI/RAID driver issue, but I can't get my head round sorting ISO's, USB drives, W7 and all the rest, grrrrr !

Any "proper" hardware loons know an easy way to drop the required drivers onto an ASUS P5K-E, I'd gladly give them a Subaru....

Tired, off to bed now.

Grump dunx

ALi-B

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Raid driver on ISO? What an ****, always had iffy success with loading them via USB keys etc.

Last time I just stuck them on a floppy disk (and had to root about in the attic to rip out a floppy drive from one of my old PCs ).

Surely Win7 should not need them...Vista doesn't. (Not if its an intel ICH7/8/9/10 at least ).

dunx

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So maybe it's a "brick".... Dammit !

dunx

dunx

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Little feedback,

After trying just about every option of USB booting, CD ROM's, and even failing to create a clean XP Pro installation I cracked.... and formatted the ruddy SSD.

Then unplugged the other HDD's and watched XP Pro install..... Yawn !

Then slopped Vista ontop of that, changed the entries using regedit, and enabled AHCI...

Then burnt a DVD copy of W7, just incase that was the problem, annnnd ?

It finally worked. Except there is a fifteen second pause after the POST and BIOS bleatings. Then W7 springs to life in seconds.

Not sure it's a cost effective solution, but "feels" loads quicker.

Off to bed now, it's fried my head this.

LOL

dunx

StickyMicky

At least the cooler is doing the business

What sort of v-core are you using with them temps?
I am currently running 1.50 in bios and its showing 1.49 while running, 8 hours solid gaming session on Arma2 and i had temps like yours

Tried pushing the cpu to 3.6ghz (managed 3.55ghz) but it was not stable, and i did not fancy pushing the voltage up much more as some sites say 1.5 is the max, yet some others say 1.55 is the max :/

dunx

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TBH it's a cheap-ish ASUS mo-bo and I leave it on "Auto"... Honest !

I'm at 400MHz and a multiplier of 8 ATM, but I hope to go up to x9 for a play. Last time I had it stable at 390 & x9 for 3.51GHz

The SSD scores 7.9 on the W7 performance assessment, vs 5.9 for a Samsung F1.

Looks pretty cool, goes like stink, dosen't make much noise, bit like a Subaru

dunx

StickyMicky

355 x 10 on mine, simples.
Iirc it means the ram is 710 mhz leaving a little headroom.

I think the 6700 and 6600 have different multipliers?
Tried playing with x9 on mine but it never seemed as happy.

HHxx

Water cooling is the next step

Go on! You know you want to

StickyMicky

My temps are fine though, i am just a bit warey of pushing the v-core, need to find out some more info regarding the max amount of voltage allowed.

Loads of headroom on the temp front now, but i am at the stage where i seam to require a lot more volts, for a small increase in speed

Really quite tempted by the full 1ghz overclock though