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Finally finished after 15 hours:

 

had to bump this thread to say those are two beautiful rigs right there

 

Current Watercooled System :







As it was when Air Cooled:

 

I thought the Zalman couldn't keep up with today's CPUs

 

Thats what everyone kept telling me!

It worked even without the added RX240 radiator, now I get great temps and the PC is silent.

Here is a HWMonitor shot after a 12 hour Prime95 run:


The coolest I have had the CPU was 20c! But that was overnight with the PC at idle...

The GPU tops out at about 39c.

Even playing games I get about 45c CPU and 35c GPU.

Plus it looks sexy on the desk!

 

Some pix of my buid...I need to recable but otherwise it's done.

- Core i7 930 @ 3.8Ghz daily use & working on 4Ghz+
- Prolimatech Megahalems w Akasa Apache Black fan 1300CFM PWM
- Asus P6X58D-E MOBO
- 6gb Kingston HyperX 1600 C9
- Saphire ATI 5770 GPU
- Seasonic 650w X-series PSU - modular, 85+ Gold efficiency and fan does NOT spin!
- Coolermaster CM690 II Advance case - the eSata dock is fab. Love this case!
- Various quiet fans: Scythe Gentle Typhoon 1450, Nexus Basic 1000 (good Yate Loons), Sharkoon 'Golf Ball' Silent Eagles 1000, stock 140mm CM fans

 

Nice Case

 

All 4 cores EXACTLY the same in both current, max, and min values???

Something's wrong there. I've never seen that... ever. There's always small differences between cores. I suspect that's not being read accurately.

 

For this CPU (it has been on three motherboards) it has been pretty much like that - I occasionally get one core 1c lower, but when running Prime or OCCT etc it is always the same on all four cores.

?

 

Here's some pics of my PC.

Simon.

 

not eyefinity im guessing? how did you get your game to stretch across?

 

Have to disagree, mine run pretty much flat, might show 1 degree difference sometimes

 

Could the temp being the same being an intel / amd thing? This is my only real experience of AMD, whereas intel pcs I have used before have shown difference between cores, not massive differences though.

 

I think it's an amd thing and effective cooling

You could throw that big old cooler out of the window in winter and go from real sub-zero cooling...lol

 

You mean my Zalman is an effective cooler

 

It seems to be doing quite a good job so far.The only thing I would worry about is the 5 days that we call summer, being passive , its how well it can cope with the ambient air temps. I suppose you could always point a house fan at it. I reckon that could be good for degrees but defeats the idea of silent cooling.

You could put it in the freezer.

Maybe I need to think this through a bit better

 

It is semi-passive, I have an XSPC RC240 plumbed in there too, with 2 SFlex Es at 660rpm on it.

The 4870 temps are wrong though - card RMA'd and I now have a 5770, max temp for that is 44c

 

Keep it low down, close to the floor, or, submerge it in a bucket of water!! That'll keep it cooler!!

 

I use softTH to get my games working, otherwise I force my resolution in the game cfg files, which work for some games.

Simon.