Scythe Infinity & Socket T (rant!)

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The DarkBlade

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OK. So today I FINALLY joined the dual core club and shed my AGP/nForce3.

I ordered the Scythe since this seems to be the big thing right now and was offering great temps.

The push pin mechanism sucks! I *thought* it was secure. It wasn't. I had lapped my CPU and put this massive heatsink on there and was very dismayed to find that at stock vcore and 2.14ghz it was sitting at 53c at load! So I reseated and I realized the pushpins weren't secure or through all the way. Now it sits at 30c load...

So fair warning to those who may follow in my footsteps. Make damn sure the black piece is ALL the way through.

For what it's worth, I have a dual 2.8 Xeon machine and I never had trouble like this with it!
 
Yes, I totally agree with you. I have the scythe infinity over my 6300 @ 3.21GHz im sitting at 41c idle and 50 loaded. THought it would be better, but im sure this shitty hold down design could improve some (ALOT) :rolleyes:
 
newls1 said:
Yes, I totally agree with you. I have the scythe infinity over my 6300 @ 3.21GHz im sitting at 41c idle and 50 loaded. THought it would be better, but im sure this shitty hold down design could improve some (ALOT) :rolleyes:
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Actually I just ran Orthos for an hour and 15 minutes, two instances to hit both cores. 6400 at 1.4vcore and 3Ghz and was only 42c load....I don't even need this much vcore to hit 3Ghz. But what may have made the difference was I lapped my CPU. I found the heatspreader to be very concave.
 
There's a custom mounting system that was designed by someone over at XS, and it can be built with regular parts from a hardware store. Give that a shot, it should be much more secure.
 
The DarkBlade said:
Actually I just ran Orthos for an hour and 15 minutes, two instances to hit both cores. 6400 at 1.4vcore and 3Ghz and was only 42c load....I don't even need this much vcore to hit 3Ghz. But what may have made the difference was I lapped my CPU. I found the heatspreader to be very concave.
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what program were you using to read those temps? :confused:
 
EasyTune 5. Came with my motherboard (Gigabyte 965p-ds3). I have the latest BIOS. Do you have doubts? What do you use?

My vcore is at 1.38 and my CPU is at 8*400 for 3.2GHz and it is at 29C at the moment with CPU util at about 2%.
 
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