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Opinions: WCing Intels

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Qveon

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Is it really worth watercooling intels if overclocking? cause my 1.8a is using the stock hsf and i have it currently clocked at 2.4 and temps are fine.

I have my old watercooler from my dual p3 800 setup that died a while back.
 
Qveon said:
Is it really worth watercooling intels if overclocking? cause my 1.8a is using the stock hsf and i have it currently clocked at 2.4 and temps are fine.

I have my old watercooler from my dual p3 800 setup that died a while back.
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I guess you might not be as "up" on this now as you used to be.....but the answer is yes......but for a few different reasons.

Nowadays there are still a good number of nice steppings of Northwoods and Prescotts that are hitting some monster OC's on air cooling, but then again, it's the same with A64 atm too. The only way I would possibly look at water cooling a new CPU nowadays is if i KNEW I had a nice stepping that would benefit from the extra cooling.....no sense in dropping the cash on h2O if you're almost already maxed out with your chips garbage stepping.

However, There are more gains to watercooling OC'd Intel chips then straight MHz gains. The fact of the matter is that I can push my 2.8C up to 3.7GHz for most benchmarking, and get it into windows for a CPU-Z screenshot at 3.9GHz.....all on air cooling, with my Gigabyte 3D Cooler Pro. The thing is that the 3D Cooler is remarkable annoying and quite loud. Not only that, but with the cpu running at such a ridiculously high voltage to clock this high, its putting out quite a lot of heat into my case and causing extra concerns that have to do with the temperatures that I'm running. I'm going to be assembling my water cooling this month (as soon as the bloody heatercore gets here from DTek) and even If I dont gain a lot out of the OC I'm still going to be pleased.....as I'll most likely hit the same OC at slightly lower voltages, have lower operating temperatures.....a MUCH smaller jump from idle to load temps.....and a LOT less noise. I'm going to be switching the a 3.2E SL7KC stepping in teh next 2 months.....these steppings are hitting 3.6GHz+ on nice air cooling with little/no voltage changes. I'm gonna be going for 4GHz with the 3.2E SL7KC.....and the water cooling is going to make those last few hundred MHz that much easier.

So to answer your question and make a long story short.....yes.....it is worth it. :cool:
 
sigh i had same plan and that 3.2 barely did 3.84 and was still too damn hot decided to sell on ebay just like the other 3.2E that topped at like 3.68 both were D0 :(
 
RM_Bulldog said:
sigh i had same plan and that 3.2 barely did 3.84 and was still too damn hot decided to sell on ebay just like the other 3.2E that topped at like 3.68 both were D0 :(
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Sure, but what specific stepping is the one you've got right now? There are a few D0 chips....and one or two of them aren't the greatest. Even if you get the nicest possible stepping there is nothing is gauranteed.....but it's setting yourself up the best you can.
 
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