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Much better CPU temps there Wolfe. 65-70C at full load is normal. :)

You can try pushing it to 4.2 if you like, I reckon you may be able to do 4.2 with 1.210v, but 4.4 may require a tiny bit of extra voltage. If you bump the voltage up a tiny bit (try 1.220v for 4.4 perhaps) you shouldn't notice your temps increase too much, maybe by about 2C or so.
 
Well, most of what it does it sit here folding. Gaming I am not worried because bone stock everything I max everything I have. That will change when I go 1080p, but it will still do very well.

Have yet to model anything with blender yet on this processor, but it runs bloody fast on my M90, so it will not be noticable with any OC.

Ill try 4.5@ 1.220 and see if it is stable and still in about 70*. If it is then I will let well enough alone.
 
OK yep try 4.5. 1.2v should be enough I reckon. You may want to stress test that for a couple of hours though, just to confirm.
 
What do I use to test it for hours? and I am guessing I should pull out a movie or fire up a game on the M90 to keep from using it while stress testing it?
 
Use Prime95 to stress test it. If you use the blend test within P95 I believe it stresses RAM too.

You may wanna watch a few movies, I'd say you want to test it for around 3-4 hours.
 
I'd leave it there, don't want to pass 70, but then again you'll never hit 70 under normal circumstances, but when the graphics card is at 80-90 degrees and that now warm air is being used by the cooler, then you might hit 70, so like i said, i'd stay there.

You can always try my H50 out, 40 bucks and it's yours
 
Trying 4.2 @ 1.25 as it would not boot at 4.4 @ 1.30.

I think to really get the most out of this chip I will need a water cooler. Or would that help drop the OC temps?
 
Yeah water cooling would give you cooler temps, but 4.2 at 1.25v is fine. What temperatures are you getting now?

Sorry for the late reply, was playing some Dirt 3. :)
 
63,64,71,64 That is running FAH. Intel burn test did not net much above it. Ill run it on prime95 tonight when I go to sleep so I won't be tempted to play with it. I think it is good. Kind of wanting to get to 4.4 as that is the 1GHz mark.

Would a H70 or something similar be good to go up to that? Kind of afraid to go to high on Air, especially the 4.4 and 4.5 not booting at 1.30.
 
Those temps look fine to me - FAH runs the CPU up to 100% or around about that, right? I don't know much about FAH, maybe I should learn more and then join the team? ;)

Anyway, something like an H70 or an H50 should be better than air cooling and probably get you past the 4.5GHz, maybe even to 4.8 on water cooling. Remember though that your board may be limiting your overclocking potential, the Extreme4 isn't the best board out there. Certainly if you get something like the UD5H or the Sniper you should be able to overclock better.

Nevakonaza told me by the way that sometimes the Corsair water-cooling units can be a bit noisy, not sure if anybody else has experienced this?
 
I've herd a few people complaining about that. I personally don't care how loud it is as long as it does its job. Remember, Im a band guy that plays trumpet. Im used to loud noises.

FAH runs it up to 100% and keeps it there.

You could join the team. Your processor would be doing teh folding. I never could get my AMD to fold. Not sure about the 5800 series. foldingforums would be able to help you a lot more than I could.

Im going to run it at 4.2 for a while and see how it does before I do anything more to it. And it will be a while before I upgrade the board. At least september.
 
I reckon 4.2 should do you fine until you can get a new board. I think it's your board which is limited your overclocking. Your processor and cooler are more than up to the job, and you don't really want to go over 1.3v for the CPU.

I heard that Radeons didn't fold that well, so yeah, I think my 2500K would be doing all the folding. I'll have to Google and see if a 5870 can fold OK. I'm sure MyCattMaxx will probably know. ;)
 
I think it is doing okay at 4.2. It is a good deal faster than stock I rekon. now as like never before the hard drive is limiting factor, yes?
 
Nothing bottlenecks like a hard drive does. This is where SSDs come in. ;)

A 2600K @ 4.2 is great. I'd leave it at that. Should be a way bit faster than at stock.
 
okay, so next up is a SSD. Should be able to get one.

Well, I can guarentee that it should handle anything out there now. Pretty powerful system as is. And Im almost sure that no program is meant to take advantage of 8 threads at 4.2 except maybe benchmarks.
 
OK, looked at your pics, if the top 2 fans are exhaust, you could make them intakes and turn the 212 towards them, that way cool air is going straight to the cpu, instead of cool air coming from the bottom front of the case which most of that is going to the graphics card, then that warmer air going to the 212. Also, if you have a warm room, it might cost a couple bucks but upping the A/C a bit would drop the temps. Other than that your best bet would be a new cooler, since you don't mind the noise i'd go for an upper end one if you're getting one or you can always try mine to see.

Also, if you don't, you could add some side pannel fans as intakes and leave the top 2 as exhaust.
 
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