PR ticked with Prescott; water cooling here I come

[pointreyes]

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Eventually I will get the hard drive cooler and maybe a cooler for my AIW9800 Pro. Is it possible to oc the 2.8e further than what I'm currently at with this system? Note that I was having great temps until I switched cases due to getting sick of the air cooling volume. I like low dB, and my case now provides that but at the problem of reaching temps over 60c with a P4C800E-D. And since that mb reports temps lower than the real temps I'm getting nervous.

Here's the case I got: http://www.directron.com/pc6070b.html (I only paid $80 for it - new, but with this extra $253 that case is not that cheap anymore :( ).

[eva2000]

nice.. or just get a 2.8c instead :)

[Pointhore]

Summertime heat is great for the prescott. :rolleyes: Makes things nice and toasty. :fire: I think even with the watercooling you might not like the temps. It all depends on your room temps.

Vote for the 2.8c here! :thumb:

[Hawk]

:yikes: Kewl. . . . . . :thumb:

[pointreyes]

The 2.8e system is used for video encoding so I have to contend with high temps under full load. I had a 3.0c originally in the old case and it burned hotter than the Prescott on the same exact video encoding test (real life example instead of some synethic test) when using the old case. However, the 2.8e was faster for the task at hand. I have a 2.6c oc'ed to 3.25 in another system anyway; hardly have a need for the 2.8c. I would suspect the temps to be too high for the 2.8c with this new case, I want quiet as well as performance. The 2.8c under full load would still need assistance. Temps in the house during the hottest days of the summer will be at 85F max and most of the time will be 72~75F. The oc'ed 2.6 casts lots of heat when the house is to warm so I don't see the 2.8c being any different. In fact, I had the 2.8c originally and was very happy to get rid of it because it could not handle the heat in the house while folding as well as a dual Athlon system could handle it. Hehe, got air conditioning shortly after that. :p

[pointreyes]

Finally got the unit yesterday and so far at over 6 hours the idle temp appears to be at 34~36C. The idle temp before that was 55~60C. Is that a good drop in temps? Or should I just wait for the 3.2EE to drop in price by the end of the year? :rolleyes:

[Hawk]

Finally got the unit yesterday and so far at over 6 hours the idle temp appears to be at 34~36C. The idle temp before that was 55~60C. Is that a good drop in temps? Or should I just wait for the 3.2EE to drop in price by the end of the year? :rolleyes:


Hello, MCFly. . :bonk: . That is an awsome drop in temp. Just about a 20C average drop. What about the load temps now?

:thumbs:

[Pointhore]

Finally got the unit yesterday and so far at over 6 hours the idle temp appears to be at 34~36C. The idle temp before that was 55~60C. Is that a good drop in temps? :rolleyes:


Nice temps! :thumb: Must be an ASUS board. :wave:

[pointreyes]

Load temps will be tested tonight. I did not get started on the building the system till late last night.

And yes, it's an Asus board but I'm also using the temp probe that comes with the Koolance. It's actually required by Koolance because if the temp reaches 53C the cooler will shutdown the system. I'm not sure but I'm wondering if bios 1016 (basically a Prescott bios :p ), is actually recording temps more accurately. The motherboard and the temp probe are within 1C of each other.

I have an Antec 20dB (can go up to 34dB) 120mm thermally controlled fan on a Zalman bracket over the chipset and RAM as well. My PSU does the range of 20dB to 34dB as well.

BTW: I'm running the Koolance at it's lowest fan speed setting. So I have a lot more testing for the full load temps to see if the other fan speeds are really that useful when working on a long video encode. I don't mind the noise of a loud system if I know that I can take it back down to reasonable decibels later. :)

[death metal]

Wow, nice temp improvement you got there mate...awesome...