After having to run with the stock cooler I got the bracket I needed so I can use my fenrir on my 2500K (thanks speed). Went to fit it to my sabertooth with the fan pointing so that it blows air into my exhaust and low and behold the bracket doesn't fit as it fould the heatsinks behind it. Out comes the dremmel and I cut off the offending lugs (which weren't needed in anyway for fitting to a 1155), I then find that the fan fouls the heatsink on my first stick of ram (typical) so I am left with resorting to having the fan pulling rather than pushing (which made no difference whatsover when I had to do it on my mugen 2 on my AMD system). I'm now running prime 95 and hitting 59 c on one core but the others are lower, ones even ten degrees lower, is this normal? also it's idling about the same temperature as the flaming stock cooler. I can't see me having much room for overclocking with this cooling setup.
Haf you moved the stick of RAM to the other slots I'm running the i5 2500k with a thermaltake frio but I couldn't install the RAM in the first and third slots so I moved them to the 2nd and 4th slot it's fits perfectly
Then I'm afraid your going to have to change the HSF the titan fenrir wasn't really designed for SB in mind
Should be much better. Right let's start off with the basics: 1. What thermal paste are you using? Also how did you apply? 2.have you made sure it's all securely attached, why dont you try reseating it again 3. What case are you using?
1. MX-4 2. Yes securely attatched as far as I know, it won't budge an inch. 3. I'm using a rather old case called a Phong 2, not exactly the best in this day and age but has been doing a brilliant job, MSI twin frozer 560TI never exceeds 60c and my old 955 under a scythe mugen 2 rarely broke into the 50's.
Ok..... Give the reseating a try and then report back if the temps are the same. It could be that the lugs that you cut off could be affecting it. If you do take it off and reseat it could you take some pics of your HSF especially the lugs that you cuts off
I'm not going to pull it apart tonight but here is a rough idea of what I did to the bracket, I can't imagine it would have an affect on the functionality of the bracket. With 1155 you use the elongated slots on each corner. I've seen others mention that there can be a difference between the temps of each core but is it usually as big a difference as 10c?
Hmmm.... Its not as much as 10c mine has fluctuated between 4-5c what's your idle temp on stock settings
I shut down prime just now and left it and the lowest core had gone down to 23 which was an improvement but other cores ranged up to 28c. Heatings gone off now but idle was around 30ish earlier. I'll do some screen shots tomorrow of core temp.
Yeh the idle temps dont seem to bad now but it is cold in the house now (wifes sat here with her coat on) I'm more worried about the load temps and the discrepancy between the cores. Whats the max a 2500K can go to?
Soz meant temps. I've seen that the 2500k can hit 5ghz but I'm pretty happy at stock for the moment but would like to aim for somewhere between 4 and 4.5ghz when I feel I need it.
I'm running a little test for you I've rest my CPU to stock and I'm running prime95 now you have to take into consideration that I have antec 1200 and a thermaltake frio with push pull config. Temps are around the 52-55c mark and I've only just started my test and the room temp is 25c so I shouldn't worry about your load temps
When overclocking my 2500k my aim was to keep the load temps below 65c. mine doesnt actually get near that, but I wouldnt want it going any higher imo.
Sounds pretty good, obviously CPU voltage is the main factor, so if you want lower temp then run a lower voltage. For core to core temp, most likely too much paste, or it may just be worth loosening the cooler and then re-tightening a bit at a time in opposite corners, just so you know its gone down nice and square.
