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Kewl Munky

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I ran Prime95, but accidently unplugged my computer when checking to see how hot the air was from the rear exhaust fan (I'm a clutz >_>). I got as far as passing the 640K tests. I don't know how many tests there are, but I hope I got decently far.

Here are my results.

[Sat Aug 23 21:28:15 2008]
Self-test 1024K passed!
Self-test 1024K passed!
Self-test 1024K passed!
Self-test 1024K passed!
[Sat Aug 23 21:44:30 2008]
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
Self-test 8K passed!
[Sat Aug 23 22:00:23 2008]
Self-test 10K passed!
Self-test 10K passed!
Self-test 10K passed!
Self-test 10K passed!
[Sat Aug 23 22:17:05 2008]
Self-test 896K passed!
Self-test 896K passed!
Self-test 896K passed!
Self-test 896K passed!
[Sat Aug 23 22:34:20 2008]
Self-test 768K passed!
Self-test 768K passed!
Self-test 768K passed!
Self-test 768K passed!
[Sat Aug 23 22:50:29 2008]
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
Self-test 12K passed!
[Sat Aug 23 23:05:50 2008]
Self-test 14K passed!
Self-test 14K passed!
Self-test 14K passed!
Self-test 14K passed!
[Sat Aug 23 23:21:01 2008]
Self-test 640K passed!
Self-test 640K passed!
Self-test 640K passed!
[Sat Aug 23 23:26:53 2008]
Self-test 640K passed!
 
well, i'd say for all intensive purposes 2 hours of prime95 will be okay. i mean, it's stable enough, and odds are you won't hit any issues.
i run it for an hour usually, and if it holds out, i consider it stable. i'd just use the system a bit, play a demanding game, something like that.
 
Well I guess it was running for about 2 hours looking at the logs. The hottest my CPU ever got was 46C, and it was hardly that. It was at 40C for a while, then rose to an average of 45C for about the last half hour.

So how do I know how far I can push my system? I want to go to 3ghz. I have G0 stepping in my Q6600.
 
Kewl Munky said:
So how do I know how far I can push my system? I want to go to 3ghz. I have G0 stepping in my Q6600.
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3GHz is a piece of cake with that chip. You may even be able to hit that without raising the voltage. A safe voltage would be between 1.35 - 1.4, although I doubt you need that much for 3 ghz.
 
what type of cooling are you using? overclocking raises temperatures linearly. that means if you overclock it by 10% of its originally clockspeed, under full cpu load the heat output would be 10% higher. you need to be especially careful since quad cores use more watts per clock, though not nearly as much as 4x the amount of a single core.

voltage on the other hand increases heat output by a lot. less linearly and more exponentially.
 
I bought it a while ago back when I had my AMD X2 6400+ BE. Here's a link to it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106102

I have a back 120mm silverstone I purchased that does 110.3 cfm at max, then I have a top 80, front 120mm (originally back when I bought case), and two side 80mm fans. I don't know the specs of those fans, but the front is intake, top is now intake since I switched one of the side intakes to exhaust the hot air my GX2 exhausts into the case.

I know I have OC in the BIOS, but what is everything I have to do to raise it to 3ghz? Also, is there a way I can set it up so I can adjust the speed without going into the BIOS everytime? I only want to increase the speed when I play an intense game like Crysis.
 
should've gone with the thermaltake big typhoon man its $15 cheaper and probably performs better (aluminum fins are better because they're lighter and therefore you can put more on). oh, and heatpipes are better than just fins alone too because of the fluids that they hold inside them.

i've never actually heard of anyone using that thing so i dont know how it performs but thermaltake is a good company i'm sure you'll be fine. what type of temperature readings are you getting?
 
Mine has heatpipes, and I got this thing about a year ago so I don't know if the heatsink you told me about was out, or was cheaper then.

And read my previous posts. I already said what temps I'm getting.
 
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