Help with fans and my 3.0E

[prescotty]

Hello! I'm a new user here.

I have a Intel 3.0E Prescott with a heatsink and some huge blue Titan fan on it. Atm its RPM is 3443 and temperature is 63°C. I have a question. I put two fans on front side of the case. Should these fans blow in or out?
I will *maybe* get thermaltake bigwater (watercooling). How much can i push this cpu and how? Please if u can describe or post any link of any overclocked 3.0E else i will just put in bios to overclock it for 10-20%.
I have 2 sticks of Kingmax 512mb PC3200 in, if that helps.

Thanks

 

[wisdomtooth]

Get the water cooling. You'll need it if you want to overclock that PresHott.

 

[charlietee]

Usually people setup their systems to where the front fans are blowing inside the case and the rear fans are pulling it out.

Really help if you told us your complete system specs...

The best thing you can do for a Prescott on air is to mod your case to have a 120m/m fan blowing on the backside of the motherboard right over the cpu and northbridge area.

 

[Zucarita9000]

Originally posted by: prescotty
Hello! I'm a new user here.

I have a Intel 3.0E Prescott with a heatsink and some huge blue Titan fan on it. Atm its RPM is 3443 and temperature is 63°C. I have a question. I put two fans on front side of the case. Should these fans blow in or out?
I will *maybe* get thermaltake bigwater (watercooling). How much can i push this cpu and how? Please if u can describe or post any link of any overclocked 3.0E else i will just put in bios to overclock it for 10-20%.
I have 2 sticks of Kingmax 512mb PC3200 in, if that helps.

Thanks

Welcome to the forums!.
I have the same CPU, and I use a Zalman 7000B Al-Cu heatsink with Artic Silver 5. This is much much quieter than anything coming from Thermaltake. It has a 92mm fan spinning at less that 2000rpm, wich is very quiet.

As for case fans, I use two 120mm Panaflo 120L1A volted down to 7v. They spin at about 1000rpm and push 40CFMs, wich gets the mobo at about 33ºC. I have the one in the front suckin in and the one in the back blowing out. Pretty much a standard setup.

Right now, my 3GE is at about 44C under light load, the mobo is at 33C. Under full load, it never passed the 58C mark.

 

[sa133]

I have the same CPU also and I'm overclocking it with a thermaltake Tower112 (3.0e @3.6GHz) using the ASUS AI overclocking in BIOS.
My temps are:
Idle
CPU: 41C
MB: 28C

and at
Load

CPU: <53C
MB: 30C

My case: Silverstone TJ06 w/ iXtrema fans all around.
System very quiet!

 

[Ino]

Have the same cpu man.

Cold weather
Underload -> 39
load -> 50

Hot weather
Underload -> 44
load -> 60

Still savin up for watercooler ^^

120mm fan front intake
120 mm fan back exhaust
80mm fan up exhaust
80mm fan side intake

All at full speed -> need molex to 3pin converter to plug in into my aerogate3 ^^

 

[AristoV300]

I would say you need to invest in a better heatsink. The XP-90/120 are one of the best choices for you. Paired with a good 92/120mm fan you should be able to keep your temps under 50C under full load overclocked. My 3.2 @ 3.9 under full load maxes around 47C. BTW do you know what stepping do you have?

 

[Wolfsraider]

thermalright sp-94

I have a 3.2 prescott at 3520mhz

temps are:

29 mobo
40 idle
47 full load

Before the thermalright my temps were 67 full load

I did use artic silver 5

I will say this Stock intel coolers are not that great.

My prescott runs cooler now than my northwood b processor 2.8 at 2900mhz

Mike

 

[OldSkool408]

I have the same cpu:


cpu: stock with stock HSF
idle: 47c
full load: 61c

cpu: stock with Thermailright xp 90
idle: 38c
full load: 47c

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cpu: @3.3 with xp 90
idle: 39c
full load: 47c

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cpu: @3.6 with xp 90
idle: 41c
full load: 51c

Full load = running HL2 for about 20minutes or running 3DMark05 default test.