Anyone underclock during the summer heat?

[TurtleCrusher]

So when I got home my house was fairly cooler then the outside with two window AC's running. Well my room was pretty warm and I booted my computer. Big mistake! MY temps were 65-70-73-70 in no time. I shut it off immediately and underclocked to where i'm at now. Idle temps are 51-51-54-51. I was at 3Ghz 429x7 1.24V.

Anyone have to do this?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I'm not underclocking my cpu but my gpu by way of profile. My 4870 gpu core = 500mhz; the ram on it i clock down to 450mhz with the latter of the two being the one thing that runs it cooler. I can literally watch the temps go down from say 46-50*c to 42-40*c in a matter of a minute.

 

[Eureka]

I'm leaving my CPU at stock.. 50C idle is way too much in the summer.

 

[elconejito]

Wow, I never had to drop that much! Maybe the cooling in your case isn't sufficient? Or maybe you've got a lot of dust on the heatsink?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Scholzpdx
Topic Summary: It was 107 in Portland today!

And yet I have no doubt that it was still completely over-cast and gray skies from horizon to horizon...

I love visiting Portland on any of the ~40days of blue skies it's citizens get to see every year...visiting on any of the other 325 days, not so much. :laugh:

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Scholzpdx
So when I got home my house was fairly cooler then the outside with two window AC's running. Well my room was pretty warm and I booted my computer. Big mistake! MY temps were 65-70-73-70 in no time. I shut it off immediately and underclocked to where i'm at now. Idle temps are 51-51-54-51. I was at 3Ghz 429x7 1.24V.

Anyone have to do this?

I don't see the problem with those temps. I run my C2D/C2Q chips at up to 85C.

 

[Markfw]

I had to turnoff all my video card clients, and one more quad to allow the AC to keep the house under 80 ! Its hot here !

(yes I am also in the metro portland area, but it was 108 at my house, today is supposed to be hotter!)

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: Scholzpdx
So when I got home my house was fairly cooler then the outside with two window AC's running. Well my room was pretty warm and I booted my computer. Big mistake! MY temps were 65-70-73-70 in no time. I shut it off immediately and underclocked to where i'm at now. Idle temps are 51-51-54-51. I was at 3Ghz 429x7 1.24V.

Anyone have to do this?

I don't see the problem with those temps. I run my C2D/C2Q chips at up to 85C.

i do


no, i don't underclock nor do i back off on overclocks even though my temps in the house may hit 80F - the max Overclock i set IS with ambient temps at 80F
[i just get more of an OC in the winter]
- i also got a new case - Gladiator 600 and keep my HS/Fan clean - the temps inside are close to ambient temps in the room

 

[exar333]

The ambients for my i7 are a little higher with the summer weather (I don't jhave any A/C in my office) but if your cooling is doing it's job, you should be fine.

You might find your computer a little unstable if you were really pushing the OC envelope. I had to do this a little bit with my old A64 Winnie, and cut the speed from 2.6 to 2.4 during the summer, because I had a good (but not great) cooling setup.

These days, I prefer to do a little "overkill" on cooling with regular temps to ensure the system is still stable during high temperatures.

 

[LoneNinja]

I only have minor overclocks on my hard ware, so they survive the summer heat without problems. I do however usually downclock any ways because leaving a quad at 3.0Ghz is pointless for 95% of what I use a computer for, even most games run fine at 2.0Ghz since my 4670 is a bottleneck in most cases. And of course surfing the net, watching videos, listening to music and other really simple tasks, actually work fine as low as 800mhz.

 

[aigomorla]

short answer no..

that is one of the benifits of watercooling.

You have a much smaller sensitivity to ambients.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
short answer no..

that is one of the benifits of watercooling.

You have a much smaller sensitivity to ambients.

The amount of expent heat is the same, and for me, thats MY problem. So I have to turn them off, not underclock.

 

[aigomorla]

well mark its like this..

water pulls heat out of you computer faster...

Then the heat gets outside faster.

People often think that watercooling will make your room cooler, but in truth, its the oposite. Your room gets hotter without circulation.

If you have enough air going though your room, 100F temperatures is 38C Bottom window coolant temps.
If your system is good, that means your coolant will be ~ 40-41C, with a computer idle of around 47-50C.

Load will push your temps to around coolant temps 45-47C, which then we approximate.. that would give you roughtly 77-80C.

^ that looks like air temps on a normal day to me.

As i said its in your system that you plan, a 200 dollar h2o setup could get close to that, you would however need a 250 dollar setup for my rule above to apply.

Is 250 dollars worth it to you? That is the question you need to ask.

But no i never downclock any of my systems because i dont see the need to. None of them are anywhere near the 80C warning mark. Infact ive never broken 80C on any i7 b4.

This is where water does better then air. Your milking the efficiency of water when your ambients are higher, or you have a higher heat load.

 

[dmens]

portland is hitting 105F today, but i am still cranking away at 4+ghz. i wonder how hard the AC has to work once i put the 42 inch TV, the 5.1 receiver and some speakers in my room along with the computer lol.

this is weird but ill actually stay at work for a little longer until the car cools down a bit.

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I love visiting Portland on any of the ~40days of blue skies it's citizens get to see every year...visiting on any of the other 325 days, not so much. :laugh:

visit during winter... you get to witness this awesomeness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Originally posted by: dmens
portland is hitting 105F today, but i am still cranking away at 4+ghz. i wonder how hard the AC has to work once i put the 42 inch TV, the 5.1 receiver and some speakers in my room along with the computer lol.

this is weird but ill actually stay at work for a little longer until the car cools down a bit.

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I love visiting Portland on any of the ~40days of blue skies it's citizens get to see every year...visiting on any of the other 325 days, not so much. :laugh:

visit during winter... you get to witness this awesomeness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk

That will never get old!

Originally posted by: Markfw900
I had to turnoff all my video card clients, and one more quad to allow the AC to keep the house under 80 ! Its hot here !

(yes I am also in the metro portland area, but it was 108 at my house, today is supposed to be hotter!)

I don't want to go outside tight now, but my Subaru must go through DEQ today. It's going to be hot.

On topic, My PC seems just as snappy as it was at 3Ghz. I haven't gamed or done anything intensive so I don't know what i'm missing yet.

 

[Pederv]

I'm up in Seattle. Feels like Phoenix during monsoon season.

Scholzpdx:

My daughters Phenom II system blue screened yesterday, it was 90F+ in her room. If she continues to have problems I'll try and down clock but she should have CnQ enabled.


dmens:

Last winter? My wife and I drove through Portland the first day the storms hit. Almost had my Focus taken out by a few 4x4's that thought they could handle anything. Just south of Eugene it was only rain.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Originally posted by: apperw

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[DrPizza]

edit: There... his spammed site is now censored.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: dmens
visit during winter... you get to witness this awesomeness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk

:shocked:

I have never before witnessed so much vehicular carnage at the hands of a single individual.

I like how they basically had to gun it to get the car to circle all the way around the intersection so they could continue their mayhem unfettered on the next street over.

That's just scary.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: dmens
portland is hitting 105F today, but i am still cranking away at 4+ghz. i wonder how hard the AC has to work once i put the 42 inch TV, the 5.1 receiver and some speakers in my room along with the computer lol.

this is weird but ill actually stay at work for a little longer until the car cools down a bit.

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I love visiting Portland on any of the ~40days of blue skies it's citizens get to see every year...visiting on any of the other 325 days, not so much. :laugh:

visit during winter... you get to witness this awesomeness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk

WTF is wrong with that person? Just STOP. Good god.

 

[wwswimming]

well, it's good for the wine crops.

only problem is the heat is up there & the wine crops are down here.

only 2 minor heat waves so far this summer, 'knock on wood'.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: wwswimming
well, it's good for the wine crops.

only problem is the heat is up there & the wine crops are down here.

only 2 minor heat waves so far this summer, 'knock on wood'.

Northeast of Portland is the Yakima valley which extends southeast throughout the southern part of Washington state and it is all wine country. They loves them some sun too

(my folks live in the tri-cities area, only reason I know this info)

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: dmens
portland is hitting 105F today, but i am still cranking away at 4+ghz. i wonder how hard the AC has to work once i put the 42 inch TV, the 5.1 receiver and some speakers in my room along with the computer lol.

this is weird but ill actually stay at work for a little longer until the car cools down a bit.

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I love visiting Portland on any of the ~40days of blue skies it's citizens get to see every year...visiting on any of the other 325 days, not so much. :laugh:

visit during winter... you get to witness this awesomeness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk

WTF is wrong with that person? Just STOP. Good god.

You can't see from the video, but the ground is one big sheet of ice, they can't stop, but they should have never started is the problem.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: dmens
portland is hitting 105F today, but i am still cranking away at 4+ghz. i wonder how hard the AC has to work once i put the 42 inch TV, the 5.1 receiver and some speakers in my room along with the computer lol.

this is weird but ill actually stay at work for a little longer until the car cools down a bit.

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I love visiting Portland on any of the ~40days of blue skies it's citizens get to see every year...visiting on any of the other 325 days, not so much. :laugh:

visit during winter... you get to witness this awesomeness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk

WTF is wrong with that person? Just STOP. Good god.

You can't see from the video, but the ground is one big sheet of ice, they can't stop, but they should have never started is the problem.

are you kidding me?
- the driver is a complete moron; (s)he actually completely stopped several times
- if you are driving on ice and are going to hit something - then hit it and stop; put the car in park and exit the van and fall on your face .. much safer than taking out ALL the cars on a street ... most people do not realize that you *can steer*; you just cannot stop


We have very strange weather in Southern California .. we are cooling off in the high desert
- double digits for the next few days
:gift:

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: dmens
portland is hitting 105F today, but i am still cranking away at 4+ghz. i wonder how hard the AC has to work once i put the 42 inch TV, the 5.1 receiver and some speakers in my room along with the computer lol.

this is weird but ill actually stay at work for a little longer until the car cools down a bit.

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I love visiting Portland on any of the ~40days of blue skies it's citizens get to see every year...visiting on any of the other 325 days, not so much. :laugh:

visit during winter... you get to witness this awesomeness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk

WTF is wrong with that person? Just STOP. Good god.

You can't see from the video, but the ground is one big sheet of ice, they can't stop, but they should have never started is the problem.

are you kidding me?
- the driver is a complete moron; (s)he actually completely stopped several times
- if you are driving on ice and are going to hit something - then hit it and stop; put the car in park and exit the van and fall on your face .. much safer than taking out ALL the cars on a street ... most people do not realize that you *can steer*; you just cannot stop


We have very strange weather in Southern California .. we are cooling off in the high desert
- double digits for the next few days
:gift:

The other thing not obvious, I am pretty sure this is on a steep hill (the west hills area, near the multnomah club if I remember). The car may stop for a minute after hitting one, then continue.