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- May 12, 2015
Hey guys.. I just got my system below setup finally after lots of issues.. And im using watercooling like I have been for the last like 15 years now.. I never use fan coolers.
And you guys are probably going to smack me in the face when I tell you the water block and such im using.. I first got into watercooling in the Athlon Xp days back in like 2001.. And I have been using the same watercooling setup for every cpu jump I make.. All I have been doing is modding the brackets for each gen cpu I get.. I have a Maze 3 block and got I cant even remember the heatercore I have but the pump is an Eheim 1048 I believe the heatercore is a single 120mm fan size core.. Im using 2x 120mm fans on it.
Anyway, I have used this block on Athlon xp 1800-2500, Athon 64 3000, Opteron 64 165 duel core, and recently for 7 years my Core 2 Duo e-8400 wolfdale.. Mind you I was able to overclock that beast to 4400MHZ with that block which was very high for an E-8400, and I kept that clock speed for 7 years, to the point where I don't even remember my bios settings so I had to take pics in case I had to reset it..
Anyway, long story, but the mounting system on the C2D and the 1150 chipset is the same, only slightly bigger as far as the holes go on the board so I didn't have to change any of the mounting.. Im currently running Prime95 now for the last hour or two, and the cpu is clocking itself to 4400MHZ at 1.24v, and all 4 cores are around 65-73c.. They did get to 85C but all I had to do was tighten the block down to the max and the temps dropped to what they are at now.. I didn't have it tightend down all the way because I didn't want to bend the cpu socket which can happen if you mount something too hard. Im still not sure if its enough pressure though.. The block to the touch is warm but not hot. The water is warmish but not hot either, yet the CPU is 67-73c.. Probably normal though. As for my C2D got about those temps too.
What do you guys think ? Yes no ? What are your temps with watercooling using current blocks and so forth.
Oh and according to core temp.. Core #3 always seems to be like 5c cooler then the other cores.. If one is at 73c core 3 is 68. Is this normal ?
And you guys are probably going to smack me in the face when I tell you the water block and such im using.. I first got into watercooling in the Athlon Xp days back in like 2001.. And I have been using the same watercooling setup for every cpu jump I make.. All I have been doing is modding the brackets for each gen cpu I get.. I have a Maze 3 block and got I cant even remember the heatercore I have but the pump is an Eheim 1048 I believe the heatercore is a single 120mm fan size core.. Im using 2x 120mm fans on it.
Anyway, I have used this block on Athlon xp 1800-2500, Athon 64 3000, Opteron 64 165 duel core, and recently for 7 years my Core 2 Duo e-8400 wolfdale.. Mind you I was able to overclock that beast to 4400MHZ with that block which was very high for an E-8400, and I kept that clock speed for 7 years, to the point where I don't even remember my bios settings so I had to take pics in case I had to reset it..
Anyway, long story, but the mounting system on the C2D and the 1150 chipset is the same, only slightly bigger as far as the holes go on the board so I didn't have to change any of the mounting.. Im currently running Prime95 now for the last hour or two, and the cpu is clocking itself to 4400MHZ at 1.24v, and all 4 cores are around 65-73c.. They did get to 85C but all I had to do was tighten the block down to the max and the temps dropped to what they are at now.. I didn't have it tightend down all the way because I didn't want to bend the cpu socket which can happen if you mount something too hard. Im still not sure if its enough pressure though.. The block to the touch is warm but not hot. The water is warmish but not hot either, yet the CPU is 67-73c.. Probably normal though. As for my C2D got about those temps too.
What do you guys think ? Yes no ? What are your temps with watercooling using current blocks and so forth.
Oh and according to core temp.. Core #3 always seems to be like 5c cooler then the other cores.. If one is at 73c core 3 is 68. Is this normal ?
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