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allways find the maximum OC for the CPU fist, then try to tighten in the memory if there is anything left to go for. Trying to do it the other way around would just be illogical since you'd have to do all the work twice...
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Any motherboard based sensor is about as accurate as rolling a pair of dice...
The closest thign to a real core temperature yul get for a conroe is to use either "coretemp" or intels thermal tool. Those are the only ones that actualyl read data from the CPU integrated thermal diode. The...
For water-chilling, you want a mix of water and methanol. its viscous, carries heat very well (not quite as well as pure water, but better than pretty much all other subzero mixes), is cheap and well... just best to use simply put...
negatives are:
- most alcohols including methanol tends...
The reason why there are two methods used (thin spead vs. drop in the middle) is because there are CPUs with and without heatspreaders.
With heatspeader, the surface area is much larger. The drop-in-the-middle approach is much less likely to produce air-bubbles (which isolate very well)...