I have a E6600 on an asus P5W DH, which can run stable at 3.5GHz with a coolermaster Hyper6+ heatsink (noisy at full speed).
Today we upgraded to a good watercooling set (Danger Den TDX, Maze4 for the chipset, hard drive cooler, two 120mm radiators and a D5 pump), temperatures have dropped considerably. Idle temps are down by about 6C, full load by about that much too.
But the problem is, I can't push the chip any faster. 3.6GHz/3.7GHz can boot into windows, but anything intensive (burn-in program, 3dmark...) will just cause it to die. 3.8GHz and windows freezes at the welcome screen.
I do have to run the Vcore at 1.7V to get to this point, RAM is at 2V, and the other voltages (ICH, MCH) are maxed out.
So, does anyone have any pointers or suggestions? Or is this just the limit that this chip can reach? I'm really really wanting to reach 4GHz, spent quite a bit of money on this watercooling equipment and the results are just underwhelming a lot quieter though!
Today we upgraded to a good watercooling set (Danger Den TDX, Maze4 for the chipset, hard drive cooler, two 120mm radiators and a D5 pump), temperatures have dropped considerably. Idle temps are down by about 6C, full load by about that much too.
But the problem is, I can't push the chip any faster. 3.6GHz/3.7GHz can boot into windows, but anything intensive (burn-in program, 3dmark...) will just cause it to die. 3.8GHz and windows freezes at the welcome screen.
I do have to run the Vcore at 1.7V to get to this point, RAM is at 2V, and the other voltages (ICH, MCH) are maxed out.
So, does anyone have any pointers or suggestions? Or is this just the limit that this chip can reach? I'm really really wanting to reach 4GHz, spent quite a bit of money on this watercooling equipment and the results are just underwhelming a lot quieter though!