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soulesschild

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Switched to water cooling and finally get great temps on my Q9550 OCed!

Before IBT: Unable to run due to temps
After IBT: 3.6Ghz@1.30v@60C

!! :) Sorry had to share my happiness
 
Nice man. Three cheers all around. Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray!
 
congratulations. its nice when you finish a project and it does everything you hope it does.
 
60'c at load is great temps for 3.6ghz @ 1.30v? i mean i know its a quad but thats not really that good of a temp i dont think atleast

Dont Take that wrong i give you props for switching to watercooling as i hate to see people trying to OC things to the bleading edge on air yet worse stock coolers. it makes me cringe

Im pushing almost 4.4ghz on a e8400 @ 1.3520v under load, on my water setup with a 8800gts in the loop, only at 53'c Cpu temp and 50'c per core in a room thats a comfortable 22'c

Id deffinitly be interested to see what kind of temps a quad would get on my loop. and actually Im interested to see what Components you are using IE waterblocks, Radiator pump tubing size ect
 
I could actually have lower volts as I'm still trying to push 4.0Ghz +, but it seems I can't stay stable at above 3.6Ghz.

@franzkefka, you do realize 1. the e8x00 series overclocks really easily right? 2. quads run infinitely hotter and are much harder to OC stable because if you prime and one core fails, it means its not stable at all.
 
I just finished setting up my friends Q9550 w/ a evga 750i mobo. Using Aircooling w/ a Xig s1283. Oc'd it at stock volts to 4.0ghz and temps are 30-34C idle(between 4 cores) and 52-57C load after 10-15 mins of sp2004, using Real Temp to monitor temps. So far stable at stock volts at 4.0ghz w/ max temp hitting 57C. I can probalby push it farther but he doesn't want me too. Anyways is Real Temp accurate w/ the temps on the core? it seems like the temps are low for a Quad oc'd to 4.0ghz.
Although room temps are quite cold, im sure that helps in the low temps.
 
Blur2u said:
I just finished setting up my friends Q9550 w/ a evga 750i mobo. Using Aircooling w/ a Xig s1283. Oc'd it at stock volts to 4.0ghz and temps are 30-34C idle(between 4 cores) and 52-57C load after 10-15 mins of sp2004, using Real Temp to monitor temps. So far stable at stock volts at 4.0ghz w/ max temp hitting 57C. I can probalby push it farther but he doesn't want me too. Anyways is Real Temp accurate w/ the temps on the core? it seems like the temps are low for a Quad oc'd to 4.0ghz.
Although room temps are quite cold, im sure that helps in the low temps.
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What kinda volts? You must have crazy airflow to keep low temps. Then again, I don't know how stressful sp2004 is. IBT usually gives me a good idea of how stable my OC is and temperature wise.
 
soulesschild said:
@franzkefka, you do realize 1. the e8x00 series overclocks really easily right? 2. quads run infinitely hotter and are much harder to OC stable because if you prime and one core fails, it means its not stable at all.
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I do realize that, but i also said that its still not a very good temp on water,
further more im not trying to be offensive and i also would like to know what kind of water cooling setup your using, because reguardless of Dual core quadcore iv had my e8400 upto 4600mhz @ 1.4000v as read by bios and i still wasnt over 60'c durring full load, So with out turning this into a flame war.

E8400 @ 4.6ghz 1.4000v = 136w
Q9550 @ 3.6ghz 1.3000v = 142w

6watt difference in power consumption / heat output

So please post your Waterblock, rad pump, fans, tubing size ect ect so we can see what your using.
 
franzkefka said:
I do realize that, but i also said that its still not a very good temp on water,
further more im not trying to be offensive and i also would like to know what kind of water cooling setup your using, because reguardless of Dual core quadcore iv had my e8400 upto 4600mhz @ 1.4000v as read by bios and i still wasnt over 60'c durring full load, So with out turning this into a flame war.

E8400 @ 4.6ghz 1.4000v = 136w
Q9550 @ 3.6ghz 1.3000v = 142w

6watt difference in power consumption / heat output

So please post your Waterblock, rad pump, fans, tubing size ect ect so we can see what your using.
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odds are hes not running a high performance rad or its just a 120.2 rad with low rpm fans.. but thats my best bet..


and the e8400 runs much cooler then the q9550.. the 2 extra cores makes a huge difference in temps especially running higher voltages..
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
odds are hes not running a high performance rad or its just a 120.2 rad with low rpm fans.. but thats my best bet..


and the e8400 runs much cooler then the q9550.. the 2 extra cores makes a huge difference in temps especially running higher voltages..
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mcr320 with low speed yates :p
 
My WC setup can hit 60c as well and I think it's fine. That's with the fans running at around 700rpm (maybe 750rpm occationally), the pump running at less than 50% power while the overclocked CPU is being stressed by Prime95. Also has an 8800GTX in the same loop.

I'm quite happy with my 60c as my whole system is not only very quiet but vibration is also kept very low. Good temps are relative to noise levels. And watercooling gives an excellent balance of good temps with low noise. (But if low temps is your only priority, I wouldn't bother with either air or water.)
 
Thats why your temps are so high right off the bat the Radiator is fine but low speed yates dont come close enough to pushing enough cfm or making enough static pressure to really make good use of the radiator, my setup is a Black Ice 120x3 with 3 70-80cfm fans, pulling air through the radiator. which is mounted inside of my lian li Pcv2000 case, using a ApogeeGT Swiftech mcp655 pump, 1/2 tubing, no resivior, and a EK 8800gts block.
loop goes Pump - cpu - gpu - radiator - pump.
 
im also not a huge fan of loud computers, but thats why the computer god invented 500w 5.1 surround sound, and headphones XD
 
Finally Stable @ 3.7Ghz with 1.25V :) And kefka, I know I could use higher CFM fans but I'm a fan of quiet fans ;)

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soulesschild said:
What kinda volts? You must have crazy airflow to keep low temps. Then again, I don't know how stressful sp2004 is. IBT usually gives me a good idea of how stable my OC is and temperature wise.
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Sorry i wasn't able to reply till today. My friend took his computer home with him so i wasn't able to do more test. I ask him to run Coretemp to check the volts and he said it's at 1.2375v at 3.8ghz currently. I was running it at 4.0ghz at the same voltage for 10-15mins last weekend w/ sp2004 and he was hitting 56-57c load. I'm almost positive that can run 4.0ghz stable. when he brings it back down i'll do more test.

Btw it's air cooled housed in a Tagain Black Pearl Case like this

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1117

air flow is really nice and quite w/ a couple 120mm fans running at 1200-1400rpm.
 
Blur2u said:
Sorry i wasn't able to reply till today. My friend took his computer home with him so i wasn't able to do more test. I ask him to run Coretemp to check the volts and he said it's at 1.2375v at 3.8ghz currently. I was running it at 4.0ghz at the same voltage for 10-15mins last weekend w/ sp2004 and he was hitting 56-57c load. I'm almost positive that can run 4.0ghz stable. when he brings it back down i'll do more test.

Btw it's air cooled housed in a Tagain Black Pearl Case like this

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1117

air flow is really nice and quite w/ a couple 120mm fans running at 1200-1400rpm.
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Nice, I'm hitting a wall ATM with my NB temps until I get that under water I'm stuck @ 3.7 since my NB temps currently are like 50C-60C on load
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
i notice in the final pictures you dont have a fan on the back of the case.. have you bothered to put one in to see if you could drop the temps on your northbridge? any air movement in that case especially near the northbridge would help since that heatsinks so large...
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I actually just added a Scythe S-flex. Still pretty damn warm. Just ordered an enzo SLF-1 SB cooler and probably going to water cool the NB. Now to decide if I want to drop 50 bucks for expensive thermalright mosfet coolers over the normal asus rampge ones :eek::confused:
 
if you dont care about looks.. but seeing as how you have your case setup im guessing you do.. but billparrish brought this up.. but maybe put some cheap small fans on the northbridge..
 
I will definitely try an antec spot cool or two, though I have an Enzo SLF-1 coming in so I'll switch the northbridge cooler to my spare HR-05SLI and slap on a fan to it.
 
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