Recent content by Drinyth

Hmmm. That leads me to wonder... if you're OCing and not increasing beyond the stock voltages, are you at any higher risk of running at OC speeds vs stock? I can get all the way up to 3.6 GHz on my i5-750 without having to increase voltages at all (in fact, I can hit 3.6 GHz at only 1.125v...

Thanks for the heads up! I checked more into it and it looks like some motherboards from NewEgg have a "limited replacement only" policy while others have the "standard return policy". The Gigabyte board that I ordered coincidentally has the standard policy, so hopefully I'm covered. Even...

Ugh. I wish I had read this all earlier. My parts for my new computer are en route and schedule to be here on Monday. Now I have to decide if I want to keep them all or send them back for a refund.

Hmmm... that's really bizarre. I've had trouble getting mine on, but not to the point that I've had to remove the motherboard from the computer to get it to sit properly? I wonder if the mounting mechanism on the AC7Pro isn't defective? Have you tried going back to the stock HSF? I'd...

The HSF definitely isn't seated correctly. You shouldn't be able to lift on one of the sides and have it move away from the IHS. Are you sure that the HSF is clipped into the MB properly? One of the things that you should look for is to make sure that the white plastic clip things didn't get...

Looks like we're both in the same boat. With systems that seem to run hotter than most understand with "auto" settings for vcore voltage. Out of curiosity, what motherboard are you using? My vcore numbers also change in cpuz depending on what I'm doing. Oddly enough when under load, the...

That's probably right around I'd see (with slightly less voltage in my vcore). I'd feel save running anywhere under 60 degrees (monitored from CoreTemp or TAT - not the MB sensor). I'm guessing it's fairly save to have these even running closer to 70 and possibly even above that before doing...

I do plan on going longer runs. Right now, I'm doing shorter intervals to allow some thermal cycles in there while the AS5 breaks in. After a few days, I'll do some Orthos runs overnight and stuff. I checked out that Conroe Database. Thanks for the link. I see one other guy that has the...

Weird. I'm still a little surprised that I'm running at 3.2 GHz @ 1.3125 vcore. I didn't expect that. I always assumed that anything over stock is going to need more juice. The posts that I've read thus far has people turning up the vcore voltage, not down. :) But mine has been running on...

I'm thinking so too. I didn't even think to try undervolting all this time because hardly anyone talks about undervolting AND overclocking at the same time. But maybe my motherboard is just giving it more juice than it's reporting? *shrug* I was over an hour in Orthos at 3.0 GHz with...

Another chapter of my saga. So my CPU runs hotter at stock settings than most peoples CPUs run while overclocking. So for S&G, I'm playing around with undervolting the processor to see if I can both undervolt and overclock to give me lower temps. I just started this morning, but I'm...

It actually probably wouldn't have been that hard. I actually already had an RMA number. :) But I would have had to ship my processor back and waited probably almost a week to get the replacement processor. I was a little impatient and not wanting to be without a workstation for that long...

I just remounted again for the millionth time. Pretty much the same temps. :) ococ: I did try pushing the HSF down. I even held it there for a few seconds while it was load testing. Didn't seem to make a difference at all. swatbat: The Freezer 7 Pro doesn't have a backplate or anything...

I've fudged the mount and had similar experiences that you had (although not to the point that the machine shut itself down). Most of the times, one of the little plastic pins that secures that HSF to the motherboard didn't go through the hole and went out sideways. But of all the times I've...

Yeah. I was pretty happy with the initial drop in temperature after I reinstalled everything. But I don't know how folks around here are getting load temperatures at 3+ GHz under 60 degrees in CoreTemp. I tried jumping up to ~2.6 GHz and I was already above 60 degrees. "Suspicious at the...