Originally posted by sammorris:

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Yeah I would imagine so, keep an eye on the temps of course.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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A bit silly to convince them to get a $1000 CPU really, but having spent $1000 on a graphics card, I can hardly talk :P

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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LOL! Well, according to ebay, you could still get a decent chunk of change. I see them retailing for over 200$ ;) But I know Jack about intel...

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Originally posted by im1992:

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Well even a 100 bucks is a lot. I was thinking that it would sell for like 50 bucks as you can get a used i7 920 for 200 bucks these days and they are much faster than the q6700.

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Originally posted by Red_Maw:

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Originally posted by im1992:

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Well even a 100 bucks is a lot. I was thinking that it would sell for like 50 bucks as you can get a used i7 920 for 200 bucks these days and they are much faster than the q6700.

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I'll give you 50US for it, I've been looking for a good, cheap s775 quad. Let me know if you're interested.

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Hello, new user here. I recently put together my new system and I'm running into some temp problems with my i7. I'm using the Noctua NH-D14 cooler with mx-3 paste and here are my results:

*Ambient ~25-28C*
i7 Stock clocks + default BIOS settings:
Idle: 40-45C
Load(Prime95): 62-70C

OC @ 4.01Ghz(EIST, C1E off):
Idle: 44-48C
Load: 74-81C

Doesn't these temps seem high for this cooler? I'm looking at reviews and other users with the Noctua, and they're getting high 20s to mid 30s idle. It's also strange that the idle both OCed and stock are roughly the same. I tried reseating the heatsink multiple times and rotated it in the other position. Also tried various different pastes(AS5,MX-3, NH-1) and application techniques (line, dot) and temps remained relatively the same. Opening the case up made little to no difference in temps as well. Double checked all fans, and they're running up to speed and in the right direction.

I also tried the stock intel fan, and at stock settings and 2 cores are idling at 58C!(other two are around 50c) and if I ran prime95 it shoots to Tjmax so I quickly shut off the PC. Could this mean a bad cpu or mobo temp sensors? I didn't think stock Intel cooler could be this bad.. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Russ, your 940 started out at 3.2GHz, running at 3.94 was a 23% overclock. The i7 930 starts at 2.8Ghz, so running at 4.01Ghz is a 43% overclock. The i7 930 is a 130W TDP CPU just like the D940, and unlike the 940, the TDP is accurate. With the Pentium Ds, 130W was more accurate for the D8 smithfields, the Preslers were a little more efficient if I remember correctly.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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i7s do use a monumental amount of power, which is why I like i5 750s, they're only 95W TDP and it shows. At 4.12Ghz I barely ever see load temps in the 60s, and I only have the same 120mm tower cooler most people use. If you can do without HT and 32x PCIe bandwidth, no reason to buy an LGA1366 chip imo.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Which CPU was this? air cooling?

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Originally posted by you:

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At 4.20GHz, at 1.5 volts, mine barely hit 53C fully stressed.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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From my experience, getting to 4Ghz on the 130W i7s, especially the earlier models that took a bit more Vcore, fully stressed, 70-75C load is about typical, using coolers like the NH-U12P and TRUE C. Even with the i7 940, that's still a 35%+ overclock, so the increase in temps is unsurprising. With more slight overclocks like 3.6-3.7, it's not normal to see the temps much exceed 60C.

When comparing to Phenom II chips, however, with the same cross-platform coolers, thermal paste and fans, higher TDPs seem to result in lower temps in software though, which leads me to think that the Tjunction settings for one (or both) of the brands is off. Whether AMDs report too low or Intels report too high I'm not sure, but 120W CPUs like the 955BE vs 130W CPUs like the i7 900 series with the same voltage increases, the AMDs seem to report far lower temps, and I see no reason for that to be the case. Granted, the surface of the die may be different, but any decent heatsink with thermal paste should make that a non-issue. I would be interested to see measurements of the temperature of the actual heatsink itself.

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