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- Jul 8, 2008
Hey guys.... I'm stuck in the dark ages with my chip, but have been upgrading my system piece by piece lately.
Anyway, I have a prescott 540 prime stable @4.2ghz 1.408 Vcore
Load temps...... 30c (ambient about 23c)
I thought these things ran hot! lol anyway here are my specs as they stand:
Asus P5Q Deluxe
Prescott 540 3.2 @ 4.2 (crappy crappy prime 1m of 31.8secs!!! )
True Black 120 with two silverstone 120mm 106cfm fans (push pull)
Gigabyte nx 8800GT (G92 512mb version)
Zalman 850w PSU
Apacer DDR2 800 running @ 873mhz (5:3 divider) and 1.98v
Crappy old random case
I am soon to purchase an E8xxx CPU, but not sure whether to fork out for the 8600 or just go with a considerably cheaper 8500.
-- Experience with the Asus P5Q deluxe = bliss .... dropped my CPU temps (under load) by about 15c, and allowed a great overclock than 3.6ghz, as compared to my crappy old ECS 815 board!!
-- Experience with TRUE - dropped my temps a further 10-15 degrees compared to my old zalman 9500!!
Pretty happy with my newest purchases tbh (True and P5Q) - and I am really really looking forward to the performance boost I should get with a new core 2 chip! (netburst really does suck!)
Comments on the above are welcome!
Thanks for reading!
Anyway, I have a prescott 540 prime stable @4.2ghz 1.408 Vcore
Load temps...... 30c (ambient about 23c)
I thought these things ran hot! lol anyway here are my specs as they stand:
Asus P5Q Deluxe
Prescott 540 3.2 @ 4.2 (crappy crappy prime 1m of 31.8secs!!! )
True Black 120 with two silverstone 120mm 106cfm fans (push pull)
Gigabyte nx 8800GT (G92 512mb version)
Zalman 850w PSU
Apacer DDR2 800 running @ 873mhz (5:3 divider) and 1.98v
Crappy old random case
I am soon to purchase an E8xxx CPU, but not sure whether to fork out for the 8600 or just go with a considerably cheaper 8500.
-- Experience with the Asus P5Q deluxe = bliss .... dropped my CPU temps (under load) by about 15c, and allowed a great overclock than 3.6ghz, as compared to my crappy old ECS 815 board!!
-- Experience with TRUE - dropped my temps a further 10-15 degrees compared to my old zalman 9500!!
Pretty happy with my newest purchases tbh (True and P5Q) - and I am really really looking forward to the performance boost I should get with a new core 2 chip! (netburst really does suck!)
Comments on the above are welcome!
Thanks for reading!
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