Same old same old

My room is hot not because the AC is off but rather because I have no AC vents in my room that work.

The top 2 being intake would mean turning the cooler yet again. Its not worth it for a few degrees difference, as that will still not make it boot on 4.4 or 4.5 @ 1.3. Higher voltage makes lots more heat.

If I get a water cooler, and not that I don't trust you jonny, but it will be new so it has at least some warranty and all the parts necessary to put it on anything.

My front 2 fans are not intake at the moment. Not exhaust either. They are unpowered as I don't have both molex leads to work them and the connectors are not long enough to get to the motherboard.
 
wolfeking said:
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.
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I'd say an SSD would probably finish this system off, as well as a better motherboard.

I certainly don't know of anything that would really take advantage of 8-threads @ 4.2 apart from maybe some video editing software and other editing software. Games certainly don't yet.
 
@ jonny, it only lowered the temps about 2 degrees. Going to drop it to 4.3 or so and drop the volts to tuck it back under 70.

@ Jason. Hmm.. Might get one. Don't know. my dream system is not here quite done just yet. The case sucks, the user is not the best, and its not got enough storage space. Not to mention all my data, songs, pics, and stuff is on the failing Toshiba drive. Going to stick it in the M90 in a bit and see what I can recover. Then I am going to need a quite big drive to store stuff on. But that is farther in the future. As for now, its a SSD, and a fan to do push pull on the HSF. That might bring the temps back down on 4.5. I think I can do 4.3 stable and right at 70. I am getting 74 to 76 at 4.5 under burn test.

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is how its set up now. Got all fans powered now. Intake on the top and front. Exhaust out the back and 480 vent. Temps dropped some. A little at a time.
 
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I wonder what the difference between the 26-- and 25-- in terms of heat is down to. I managed 4.3 on the stock cooler. Our setups are fairly close, you've got a cool case but a hot GPU, and I've got a hot case but cool GPU... Does HT actually add heat? Weird.
 
wolfeking said:
@ Jason. Hmm.. Might get one. Don't know. my dream system is not here quite done just yet. The case sucks, the user is not the best, and its not got enough storage space. Not to mention all my data, songs, pics, and stuff is on the failing Toshiba drive. Going to stick it in the M90 in a bit and see what I can recover. Then I am going to need a quite big drive to store stuff on. But that is farther in the future. As for now, its a SSD, and a fan to do push pull on the HSF. That might bring the temps back down on 4.5. I think I can do 4.3 stable and right at 70. I am getting 74 to 76 at 4.5 under burn test.
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Get those files off the Toshiba ASAP and copy them to a working drive or a pendrive or something.

If you go for an SSD eventually, I've used both the SanDisk Extreme 120GB and the Crucial M4 128GB. I have the Crucial myself, but the SanDisk is faster. As of today, the SanDisk is one of the very fastest out there. Beats the M4, Force 3 and just about anything else you'd consider.

Side note - your cable management is looking pretty good, better than mine!
 
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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. ;)
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You should be able to get it to fold but it would only be good for about 2-3k ppd from what I understand plus you will have to use one of the cpu cores to feed it and that will lower your SMP ppd.

IMHO, it wouldn't be worth the watt/ppd to run the 5870 folding.
 
So basically if I were to fold I'd have to do it on the 2500K?

(Sorry about the off topic btw.)
 
no worries about the OT.

And yes, you would have to use the 2500k. It would run your 5870, but the power used and points earned would not worth it.
 
Perkomate said:
I wonder what the difference between the 26-- and 25-- in terms of heat is down to. I managed 4.3 on the stock cooler. Our setups are fairly close, you've got a cool case but a hot GPU, and I've got a hot case but cool GPU... Does HT actually add heat? Weird.
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Not really sure about that. I have HT on, and currently am running 45x100 and doing fairly well. Im testing it now and trying to get the volts down. Running 1.300 on it right now and running intel burntest for 5 runs to see about heat.
 
wolfeking said:
no worries about the OT.

And yes, you would have to use the 2500k. It would run your 5870, but the power used and points earned would not worth it.
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I've got a rig with a Q8300 and a 9800 GT which Maxx and I have been setting up for folding.
 
That rig should fold very well. Running stock mine folds 164500 points a week. Not sure how the OC will fold yet as I have been testing it to determine how stable it is.

One thing I am noticing and it may well be this board, is that the core voltage is not stable. Its set to fixed voltage @ 1.300 and it is running between 1.300 and 1.315. :(
 
I have a few problems with the C2Q rig though. The hard drive is failing and it runs very hot. :/ CPU maxes out at about 80C under full load and so does the graphics card. I installed some fans to try and cool it down, doesn't seem to have done a lot of difference to my temperatures though.

Your voltage issues could either be with the board or the CPU. Sometimes you get chips which just do not overclock well at all. Could be a board issue I guess.
 
Well, it seems to hold an OC pretty well. The board is questionable, as it has been practically from day one. But eh, find out soon enough.

Trying 4.3 @ 1.250V to see how it runs. May be more stable and cooler. And 200 MHz will not make a big difference for most things. May get a H80 for it, not sure if it would help.

Stupid question, but if I get a new HDD and SSD, would I be able to mount them in the optical bays like my current one is? And if so, where would I go about finding a 3.5 to optical adapter? I have used the one I have. :(
 
4.3 at 1.250V should be fine, give it a go.

You can probably get 5.25" to 3.5"/2.5" drive bay adapters yes. I have a 5.25" to 3.5" adapter in one of my PCs. You can most probably get these adapters from Newegg or eBay.
 
just don't forget you siggy, and i'd stick it on like a 20 run loop or run prime for a while overnight oneday just to be sure it is stable.
 
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