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- Oct 31, 2002
I have to say, I half expected to be running my volcano 9 for some time untill i decided to finally take the preverbial plunge into the water cooling scene early next year. Initially, my goals of water cooling were to create a water cooler acceptable to use with the faster xp's coming out in excess of 3000+ model numbers. Without the desire to volt mod my board all to hell, I think i have acheived the highest stable speed for my xp 1600+. However, The cpu running at 170 mhz fsb refuses to use more than 1.81 and 82 volts when running full load of prime95. This tells met hat i have succeeded slighting, if only that, at burning the cpu in a bit to use less voltage to flip. For those not knowing the term burn in, it is used to represent running the cpu at higher voltages for long periods of time to reduce the amount of voltage nessisary for the transistors to flip at a specified clock speed.
I was not trying to burn in , but this gives me hope to acheive higher speeds with the same 1.85 vcore setting by merely unlocking the cpu. I will likely be able to hit 1.9 ghz.
Today, I got paid at work and by a lucky twist of fate, I read todays for sale page at my local distributer. They were now stocking thermalright heat sinks, and for cheap. Memory express, a local to calgary distributer of wholesale merchandise sold me a sk 7 heat sink for $54 canadian. this is a great price and i already had a high performence fan at home, so what the hell.
I was tempted to get the sk6+ as it is cheaper, but designed only for a 6cm fan. not wanting to put up with smaller and whinier, i went with the model that would take 8cm. the sk 8 was $20 more but honestly, the difference was fairly minimal and i would be lucky to see 2º improvment. so i saved $20 and got the 7 model.
primed, i raced home. took it out of the box and just drooled at the workmenship of this thing. It is somewhat smaller than i first imagined though. From all the images and reviews, i was expecting a gargantuine thing. one that would rape my volcano in its beefy rip the zif socket right off the board beefieness. i was dissapointed there, but either way, this heat sink is supposed to rule. I got to work, dissasembling all my ****e. unplugging my 9 case fans and removing my ducted 2 8cm fan feed to the cpu.
This thing went on without a hitch. heavy though but i had some issues getting the fan locks into the PINNER holes. .. literally. without suppremly steady hands, you would have a hard time getting a pin through them. im an artist, what does that say about me :\.
anyway, I had to fix my Thermal take smart fan II first off so i could use the speed control. the fecking thing came right off and i had to whip out the duct tape to save the day. I run it at 4500 rpm right now case closed but when it was open, i was able to run 4000, and even 3500 rpm.
so now. the important guts of this post.
temps.
My xp 1600+ running a program i use to burn in called Burnk7, ran successfully for an hour with a maximum temp of 49ºC at 4000 rpm. at my fans maximum rpm of 5800, i acheive... drum roll... 43ºC under full load for an hour..,.... IMPRESSIVE.
My xp 1600 is running OC at 1.81 ghz at 1.85 vcore. It is possible that i can bump up my multi and still stay under my personal safety limit of 55ºC. 58 and even 60 is acceptable, but my machine gets choppy at 65. so i like a nice clean barrier of distance.
I have to say a lot of good about this sink. For $54 cdn ($39 us) it is a very good heat sink and with the ability to use 80 mm fans (90 if you are crafy with duct tape), this is a great cheap sink for use with higher end athlons. dont waste your money on a slk800. the difference is so moderate. I got to look one over carefully and really, the difference is its about 3 mm taller, has a smaller base (requireing a shim) and has holes through all the fins for fan mounting using shorter wire locks. the sk6+, is much smaller than this one but cools fairly well on a 2400+ with a really good 60mm.
I managed to get a inside look at a slk 800 with delta 80 mm fan on 2400+. that was stupid loud but ill bet she was really happy
.
so what happened to my volc 9? simple. I raped my case for a fan and used it on that volc 9 sink. my roomate is using it on his stock xp 1800 right now not breaking 50º.
long story short. save the money. sk 7 heat sink is much better for the buck than the 800 model. the money you save can get you a better fan which is always nice. although i cannot really recommend the workmanship of the thermal take smart fan II... it moves lots of air and its building in 4 mode operation is great. mine is using the speed controll with 4500 rpm. the craft and noise concious user might use it with temp sensor, never breaking the limit for max rpm with this heat sink.
I was not trying to burn in , but this gives me hope to acheive higher speeds with the same 1.85 vcore setting by merely unlocking the cpu. I will likely be able to hit 1.9 ghz.
Today, I got paid at work and by a lucky twist of fate, I read todays for sale page at my local distributer. They were now stocking thermalright heat sinks, and for cheap. Memory express, a local to calgary distributer of wholesale merchandise sold me a sk 7 heat sink for $54 canadian. this is a great price and i already had a high performence fan at home, so what the hell.
I was tempted to get the sk6+ as it is cheaper, but designed only for a 6cm fan. not wanting to put up with smaller and whinier, i went with the model that would take 8cm. the sk 8 was $20 more but honestly, the difference was fairly minimal and i would be lucky to see 2º improvment. so i saved $20 and got the 7 model.
primed, i raced home. took it out of the box and just drooled at the workmenship of this thing. It is somewhat smaller than i first imagined though. From all the images and reviews, i was expecting a gargantuine thing. one that would rape my volcano in its beefy rip the zif socket right off the board beefieness. i was dissapointed there, but either way, this heat sink is supposed to rule. I got to work, dissasembling all my ****e. unplugging my 9 case fans and removing my ducted 2 8cm fan feed to the cpu.
This thing went on without a hitch. heavy though but i had some issues getting the fan locks into the PINNER holes. .. literally. without suppremly steady hands, you would have a hard time getting a pin through them. im an artist, what does that say about me :\.
anyway, I had to fix my Thermal take smart fan II first off so i could use the speed control. the fecking thing came right off and i had to whip out the duct tape to save the day. I run it at 4500 rpm right now case closed but when it was open, i was able to run 4000, and even 3500 rpm.
so now. the important guts of this post.
temps.
My xp 1600+ running a program i use to burn in called Burnk7, ran successfully for an hour with a maximum temp of 49ºC at 4000 rpm. at my fans maximum rpm of 5800, i acheive... drum roll... 43ºC under full load for an hour..,.... IMPRESSIVE.
My xp 1600 is running OC at 1.81 ghz at 1.85 vcore. It is possible that i can bump up my multi and still stay under my personal safety limit of 55ºC. 58 and even 60 is acceptable, but my machine gets choppy at 65. so i like a nice clean barrier of distance.
I have to say a lot of good about this sink. For $54 cdn ($39 us) it is a very good heat sink and with the ability to use 80 mm fans (90 if you are crafy with duct tape), this is a great cheap sink for use with higher end athlons. dont waste your money on a slk800. the difference is so moderate. I got to look one over carefully and really, the difference is its about 3 mm taller, has a smaller base (requireing a shim) and has holes through all the fins for fan mounting using shorter wire locks. the sk6+, is much smaller than this one but cools fairly well on a 2400+ with a really good 60mm.
I managed to get a inside look at a slk 800 with delta 80 mm fan on 2400+. that was stupid loud but ill bet she was really happy
.so what happened to my volc 9? simple. I raped my case for a fan and used it on that volc 9 sink. my roomate is using it on his stock xp 1800 right now not breaking 50º.
long story short. save the money. sk 7 heat sink is much better for the buck than the 800 model. the money you save can get you a better fan which is always nice. although i cannot really recommend the workmanship of the thermal take smart fan II... it moves lots of air and its building in 4 mode operation is great. mine is using the speed controll with 4500 rpm. the craft and noise concious user might use it with temp sensor, never breaking the limit for max rpm with this heat sink.
