Ey guys just got my core i7 build and im plugged it up not neatly for air flow. Since this is my first build for a while previous system was a p4 im unsure what temp's should be at idle atvm they are these Room temp is prob 22-24degress atvm Seems a little too high????
Sorry for the low res off phone dont have mi camera around Current looks like this so more real airflow Btw its a Core i7 920 Noctua NH-U12P (Two fans) 3x2gig Cosair Dominator 1600Mhz ASUS gtx280 (single for now 2nd card coming in a few days) I still thought the heat sink would help more, it probabiliy will once i clean everything up Cheers Trent
dw i no, just plugged it all up to make sure it works first off gonna start cleaning them now ill post idle temps up after so lets see if it makes a big differance .
shall see soon with the cables everywhere Running prime 95 in all 8 thread, max heat is ~60degrees after 15mins though, it should go up. Cleaning now so ill post them later
well i cleaning it up, soz bout poor images from phone 1MP lol idel about the same, test under load soon posted
I was under the impression that the i7 cores were supposed to run cooler than the 775 chips? 60*C using one of the BEST air coolers you can buy under full load seems a touch too high to me...
Looks like the hsf is sat on the cpu ok though, as the core temps aren't out by much (i.e. core 0 and 1, and 2 and 3 are only 4c out at one point), so the contact seems fine. I just wonder if there was too much tim applied or maybe it's not quite gone 'off' yet? What thermal goo (tim) did you use on the cpu/hsf? Artic Silver 5/Ceramique/?
i used the thermal paste given with the cooler, didnt add to much either the 4-5mm diameter spot they advised. From what ive seen of a few other sites and a make who has the thermaltake exctreme cooler, his is only a few degrees lower sitting on the other side of the room, same case, same setup just different cooler (We both thought it would run cooler, we didnt attach the provided intel cooler/heatsink went and added our new ones right away so we got nothing to compare the temps to, silly of us lol) Under load was a differnt, was 4-5degrees cooler ~55C in comparision to 60C with cables everywhere, GPU was similar
Does it detail in the instructions that came with the cooler what the thermal paste is? There's better thermal pastes available than the usual sachet of white goo that come with hsf's. They do make a difference. Iirc, the best atm is MX2.
The Nocuta paste is supposed to be pretty good IIRC. Have you checked the mounting is good, and that there is good past contact between the HSF and the IHS?
yea when i removed it the it was spread nearly all over the processor from the little dot, i cleaned it and have reapplied and the results are the same. So im assuming its in contact if its getting spread all over the CPU basically. I dont want to add to much either since it may dampen the results Cheers Trent
Just posting the higher res pics like i said, Final Rig Core i7 920 @ stock clock 2.63Ghz P6T Deluxe m/b Corsair 3x2gb 1600Mhz lat 8-8-8-24-2T 2x SLI asus gts280's Corsair 1000W power supply 2x 1Tb Seagate sata drives Thermaltake armour + (case) Pioneer DVD burner (blue ray to come ) Final temps with system closed Ideal CPU (Four cores) ~40C GPU1 (Upper one) ~43-45C GPU2 (Lower one) ~44-46C Load CPU (Four cores) ~60C GPU1 (Upper one) ~82-84C (GPU Fans on auto) GPU2 (Lower one) ~84-86C (GPU Fans on auto) GPU1 (Upper one) ~73-75(GPU Fans on 100%) GPU2 (Lower one) ~75-87C (GPU Fans on 100%) images of rig cables tidy, Cheers thanks for the help and advice along the way, not jsut in this thread
