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just my 2 cents but if it gets hotter it must be working it harder.

(room was always 21c)

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orthos' small ftt test is much tougher and will realy test the cpu to its limits. i know i have said in the past that occt is as good as any but after testing this setup my opinion has changed. prime and occt both only just touched 40c on my setup at 3.3ghz(on 1.44v) orthos got it slightly higher hitting 44c after just under an hour then it spent the rest of the time going between 42 and 43c.


just my 2 cents but if it gets hotter it must be working it harder.

(room was always 21c)

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How's this for a sig??




http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=100101

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2. An image-only signature should be less than 50kb in size, and be at most 500 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall.

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There's still a few infractions floating around, just ask theonejrs.

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i can only base my opinion on my findings, orthos made my cpu get hotter which in my opinion makes it the better torture test. both it and occt showed up as running both cores at 100% yet occt didnt get it as hot.

i dont understand why this was the case, its just what i found with my setup.

Not a universal situation as my setup and others won't confirm it.

the arctic freezer 7 pro should knock about 8c off the stock cooler and after 200+ hours it should drop another couple of c too when the paste has cured. its a shame that you havent put a 7 pro on it as i would of liked to know what the max you could get with it was as myself and sam have had such a different experiance with our setups.

Not a shame. I have a Zalman 9700 that works well. I have no temp problems. I didn't install an OEM HSF to do before and after. I knew up front what I needed for the build and OCing. Normal MB temp is 38C and CPU 32-34C while multitasking. With a movie playing, RB encoding, checking my email, and visiting AD, the temp on the mobo is running 39-40C and the CPU is 43C. The mobo has passive cooling and doesn't go higher then 40C at peak, so that's normal unless I want to mod the board.

you are right about your mobo, it is cooler than most unmoddified ones i have seen too. infact mine is only slightly cooler and it has a 60mm fan screwed on top of it now. mine tops out at 36/38c(deppending on room temp) after prolonged heavy load and idles at 32/34c.

can i ask which version of everest you are running as even the beta i tried couldn't correctly show my cpu temp. it reported it as 25c all the time. now on mine i have 2 mystry temps, 1 at 25c all the time and 1 at 40c all the time. both speedfan and everest show them only pc probe gets it right.
Without checking the version number I'll just say the latest. I keep it updated since it's a licensed version. I've checked Everest against PC Probe and Speedfan and the temps are similar, Everest just does more. By the way, the trial or freebie Everest doesn't work as well as the full program.

im running mine at 3ghz now as my 24/7 speed and only of i need to do some thing a bit quicker will i knock it up to 3.3ghz as the extra volts needed to gain that 300mhz isnt worth the heat it generates in my opinion.

You're right on that. That last bit of increase is the most expensive.

anyway im wandering into another thread here so i will sign off for now.

take it easy.

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