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Re:Normal temps for liquid cooling, can you advice? - 2006/12/17 10:55
Fairly warm in the room say 22-25°C, I would expect the CPU to run a few degrees higher. So idle sounds about right and full load 44°C is awesome that's about 10-11°C difference. Well with AMD CPU's I'm not 100% on but I have an Intel Pentium D 840 Extreme Edition and 2x 512MB, GeForce 6800 Ultra all water cooled with a Koolance Exos-1 and it reports 40°C idle and 52°C full load 3.6GHz. And the new Core 2 Extreme X6800 at 3.47GHz on an Exos-2 gives 32°C idle and 45°C full load. So I think your in the ballpark, I've had the X6800 at 3.8GHz but temps up to 60°C running benchmarks.
I can bench at 3.77GHz, gonna try a better CPU cooler later that I don't have to use a shim with. I think it may contribute to the higher load temps and limiting my further overclocking. This beast is for the scary stuff you will only remove so much heat at a time as your transfer from one surface to another through convection, you'll need the real efficient hardware such as phase change to actually hold temps or even lower them. Unless you have overkill, huge radbox, fan and cooler air through it and good fluid flow. My Exos-1 has only 1/4 inch hose.
These Exos units have settings as temps increase fan speeds increase depending on the settings, also with water cooling you will want good case airflow to cool memory chipsets, mosfets, voltage regulators, drives, etc... That's my uhm extended opinion.
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