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thewelshbrummie
…and it’s made a huge difference to my pc.
I rebuilt the computer last night, took about 2 hours in total. It’s possible that applying fresh TIM may have made a big difference but the tower itself has heavily lowered the temperature.
I was having problems with the Intel stock cooler, in that I couldn’t mount all 4 pins properly. Poor contact with the E2160 CPU I’m using and a lack of fresh TIM lead to idle temps of 70+ degrees, with the maximum stable overclock I could get was a bus speed increase of just 40 MHz (from 200). With the tower installed, I’ve already been able to increase this to 275MHz (1,100MHz effective FSB) for a CPU speed of 2.48GHz… with my CPU temp not exceeding 35 degrees! And that’s with the fan being set to it’s slowest speed.
Needless to say, there’s a far greater overclock available as speeds of 3.4GHz have been achieved…. so I’ll be playing with the FSB speeds to get more from my CPU (though I won’t be touching the VCore options, just the FSB). Clearly it can go further and now it’s installed, it saves me from having to do another rebuilt when I change the CPU in the next few months.
UPDATE: I’ve achieved a bus speed of 290MHz for a 2.6GHz clock speed. I’ve tried 300 though Vista hangs when entering the desktop and loading services, so I’ll leave it where it is for the time being. I’ll happily take an 800MHz increase, especially as my CPU temps haven’t changed!
I too found that when oc’ing an E 21*0 you cant get past 2.6ghz without upping the vcore
built the CPC Bargain machine for a mate and used an E2180 (10x multi) so left the mobo on a 260*10 so its not stressing the mobo and not gonna shorten the life of the cpu
It does have an arctic 7 pro on it so i told him he can take it up to 3.00Ghz+ of he wanted too but at 2.6ghz performance is fine.
Sounds like you put too much Thermal paste on first time around? I learnt the hard way a while ago that too much is a very bad thing
On the note of paste OCZ freeze is really good compared to 3/4 others that I have tried so far! lowered my Q9450 from approx 42 to 39 C at 3.47Ghz load!