This chip OCed to 4GHz with ease... but I can't bench it properly as my temps are horrible!!! Stock coolers fail. Need a nice, beefy cooler now...
Wasn't idle... just gave a quick blast of Intelburntest and killed it as soon as I saw it get to 85. I've backed it off to 3GHz now until I get better cooling. I was just curious to see if the chip was capable of a 4GHz OC. It is, so I'm happy to wait until I get a decent cooler.
Of course... it's a 2.6GHz chip at 4GHz with a stock cooler Just deciding on the best way to cool it now. ... except that I can't decide Water? Air? Hmmm...
IBT does something weird when stress testing, I bet you won't see those temps running something else for 100% CPU utilisation.
I noticed that myself when stressing the rig at stock speeds when I first built it. IBT managed to get the temps at least 10 degrees higher, and it doesn't even keep the cores at 100%.
Pookey, we all know you'll choose water. Just seeing if it'll hit 4 was enough to answer that one, let alone the old air/water one
Water is expensive, but you get better temps if you go for air I'd go TRUE and Noctua Or worst case scenario you can just use a peltier TEC plate?
Heatsinks are very very good now and thus you have to invest quite alot in a water set up for it to be significantly better!
you can never go wrong with a TRUE especially when they include a fan now. lucky you, im stuck here with 3.9Ghz max, and only 3.4Ghz 24/7
Yeah.. tempted to go water again.. My temps were so good with the last rig. I was sick to death of the size of the damned thing though... hence the Lian Li PC-A6010 this time. Water will be tricky in this case, that's for sure. If I do go water, it won't be a massive triple rad monster job this time... discreet will be the watchword. I'm wondering whether a single rad, 5/8ths install will be enough. I'll probably not bother with GPU blocks either. I'll think on it a while.
