Memebag build a PC

Under sustained load, the stock fan can only cool this CPU to 60C. I'm not happy with that.

 

What thermal grease did you use?? I use Arctic silver and generally stay in the 40's.

 

I used the paste it came with. It was pre-applied.

 

I would pull the processor and take off the stock grease. It generally sucks. You can get 100% isopropanol to clean it off, then put a "rice grain" size of Arctic Silver. Will generally drop your temp significantly.

 

Yeah, I should have done that in the first place. Last night I got it up to 75C. The fan responds, but that's scary hot.

 

Oh yeah. About 5 days after I ordered my i7 930 for $300, Intel cut the price of the $600 950 to ... $300. I know they're all the same chip, just tested to different speeds, but it's still a little annoying.

 

75 is WAAAY too hot. I don't get above 61-62 C at full load running at 4.2 GHz. You're gonna have to pull that processor and replace the thermal grease. Might also consider an after market fan. They're only $30-40 or so and make a huge difference.

 

I bought a Thermalright. Installing it today.

Back to Memebag's joy and wonder, I love seeing 8 boxes on task manager:

 

How are your temps? I use realtemp to monitor and it works pretty good.

 

My temps peg 80C when I light up both threads on every core. That's why I'm about to install this:



That RealTemp is nice. It always know how far away the closest T.J. Maxx is.

 

I installed the big honking heat sink and fan. What a pain in the ass. I should have done it when I built the beast. But it dropped my temps @ sustained 100% load by 20C.

 

Yea, the fans are a pain to put in after it's built. But... makes a HUGE difference!! you'd probably be able to easily bump your machine up to 3.8 Ghz at this point and not even see a change in the temps.

 

I've got it at 3.52Ghz now, and I definitely see a change in the temps. More ticks means more heat; there's no way around that. I think my front fan is too slow now. Maybe I need a new case...

 

I have a fan on my desk that aims near the computer to help pull heat out.

 

This is my work PC. HP 7100 Elite with a Core i7.

 

Do you know what it cost?

 

I'll have to run this for my machine when I get home.

 

Here's my work PC. I think they spend $1500 on it.

 

$1,049 w/o monitor.