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- Feb 20, 2007
How does everyone determine where a chip coldbugs?
Is it reasonable to keep chilling the pot until it hangs or restarts when no benching is being performed? Will that give any consistant/reasonable information?
What I have been doing lately is just start benching and experimenting bringing the temps lower and lower until I start to have issues. Not very scientific or organized, but from messing around I seem to be able to figure out what my lowest ideal temps are.
My problem though, is that the temps that I seem to get best results are are significantly warmer than what I see others say works for them.
For example....
My 2 quads (Q6600 G0 and X3220 G0) I didnt really notice any improvements colder than -80C. Both of them appeared to coldbug around -120 to -125C. I see many people benching Q6600s at -140ish.
My E8400 seems to coldbug around -110C and I seem to get best results (only 2 nites of testing so far though) at around -100C.
My "lesser" C2Ds (E4500 and E2160) seems to like the cold more with regards to coldbugging and would be able to run them -135ish, but typically would run them more like -110C or so since I didnt seem to gain anything additional after that.
My s478 CPUs all seem to coldbug around -110C (give or take) and I bench them around -100ishC.
It just seems that most ppl bench LN2 more along the -130 to -140 routinely, and if I just had 1 or 2 chips that did NOT go that low I would say its just those few chips, but I more routinely find my usual benching temp is closer to -100 or -110C and I want to make sure Im not missing anything.
Thanks!
Is it reasonable to keep chilling the pot until it hangs or restarts when no benching is being performed? Will that give any consistant/reasonable information?
What I have been doing lately is just start benching and experimenting bringing the temps lower and lower until I start to have issues. Not very scientific or organized, but from messing around I seem to be able to figure out what my lowest ideal temps are.
My problem though, is that the temps that I seem to get best results are are significantly warmer than what I see others say works for them.
For example....
My 2 quads (Q6600 G0 and X3220 G0) I didnt really notice any improvements colder than -80C. Both of them appeared to coldbug around -120 to -125C. I see many people benching Q6600s at -140ish.
My E8400 seems to coldbug around -110C and I seem to get best results (only 2 nites of testing so far though) at around -100C.
My "lesser" C2Ds (E4500 and E2160) seems to like the cold more with regards to coldbugging and would be able to run them -135ish, but typically would run them more like -110C or so since I didnt seem to gain anything additional after that.
My s478 CPUs all seem to coldbug around -110C (give or take) and I bench them around -100ishC.
It just seems that most ppl bench LN2 more along the -130 to -140 routinely, and if I just had 1 or 2 chips that did NOT go that low I would say its just those few chips, but I more routinely find my usual benching temp is closer to -100 or -110C and I want to make sure Im not missing anything.
Thanks!