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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    The pie is a lie... Anyway, the more costly part of A/C is the electric bill...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    My god, my ambient today is around 37 and my CPU is around 44 again... Time to get some water coolers... The only reason I don't want to is because it is an absolute pain in the behind. I must flip a coin to decide wisely.
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    Cool! I remounted this guy with todays temprature around 23 degrees, I am getting core tempratures areound 27 to 32 celsius per core. However, installing and reinstalling this guy was the worst nightmare. I swore like a sailor when I installed it.
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    I would, but the 680i lt NB chipset has a tall heatsink plus fan on it. As WoodButcher said, I may try to use that low profile heatsink, but would that be good enough to cool this guy? EDIT- My goodness, when I ran Windows XP instead of Vista, my temperatures drop about 4 degrees.
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    I reversed the fans and the temperatures got a little better. 36 to 42 degrees across cores. I use the shit case made my thermaltake, which I got as a gift from a "friend". It's called thermaltake matrix, and the website is: http://www.thermaltake.com/pro...ower/matrix/vd2000.asp I really...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    As I said in my previous posts, I lapped it AND used the washer method (similar to penny) and the washer was much thicker than the penny. aigomorla, once I can get my lazy ass off the chair, lol, I'll try all of your four advices, thanks.
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    PSU is nothing to worry about, I got a 610 Watt Silencer, which has not fan on the bottom, and I've touched the bottom, which is extremely cool. When it took the side of my case off to have an open case for my PC, the temprature dropped to 33degrees on core 3 being lowest and 39 on core 2...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    Hmm... Using too much thermal paste is actually bad for the temperature? I'll remount it with less TIM and give it a try. Thanks for the cool advices guys. (pun almost not intended.)
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    Yes, the case fan on the back is blowing into the case, but I have one on the front the takes the air out.
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    It doesn't lift at all, it does tilt slightly, but that's the only movement it has AFTER the installation, it was really difficult to not move it around when installing this guy though... I also have one of those Scythe silent fans S-Flex 21F I think. It moves ALOT of air, along with my...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    I have yet to be impressed by the performance of this heatsink. Everytime I look at it, I just wish I had bought a Zalman 9700LED. I don't really need CPU over clocking, but I enjoy really stable system. Also those are temperature when I ONLY run speedfan and nothing else under Vista, so it's...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    Actually, the TIM is really smeared to the sides, because this guy is heavy and moves around ALOT when you install it. if only it wasn't such a pain.... Why did they make a great cooler and messed up on both the fact that it has a horribly unflat base and difficult installation process...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    The full spec is: Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz (Not OverClocked) with G0 Stepping eGeforce 8800GT 512MB VGA (G92) XFX nForce 680i lt Motherboard pc6400 DDR2 OCZ dual channel Memory (4GB) Windows Vista Ultimate My ambient temperature is around 78°F, sorry I don't have Celsius as of now, as this is...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme not working right?

    I have a q6600 (not overclocked CPU) and a Thermalright Extreme 120, and my temprature has been around 44 Celsius around each core. My ass crappy old heatsink (Golden Orb II) has done the same or better temperature. The exception with this heatsink however, was that when I open my PC case, the...