Lol. New 3.2 @ 3.6 5c cooler than stock 2.4c.

[iwearnosox]

Funny, I just replaced my old 2.4c running at stock speed (it was a crappy oc'er) with a 3.2. I cranked the 3.2 to 3.6 from the start and rebooted. It's running 5c cooler than my previous 2.4.

I'm on a ic7-g, I guess I'm forced to do a 5:4 ratio on the memory at this point?

 

[Alkaline5]

Using the same HSF or new stock one? Prescott or Northwood?

 

[Zap]

If you had updated BIOS around the same time, Abit "recalibrated" the CPU temperature because of many complaints.

Also, if your previous CPU's heatsink/fan was gunked up with dust, could reduce effectiveness.

[EDIT] What RAM are you running? In any case, congrats on having a faster CPU at stock speeds than anything I have right now even overclocked.

 

[Mullzy]

That "recalibration" from Abit didn't do anything for me.

My 2.8c idled at 45 C before and after the update. There's no way it's really 45... but oh well!

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Alkaline5
Using the same HSF or new stock one? Prescott or Northwood?

Both northwoods, identical heat sink and set up. No bios update.

 

[Yanagi]

Maybe you put on to little/much thermal paste and got it better this time?

 

[Stormgiant]

I find it very hard to belive, but it can happen.

For your info, my old 2.4C M0 at 280fsb was cooler than the 2.6C and 2.8C that replaced it after at stock!!

One hell of a cpu. Last week, just for testing i exchanged my 3.0c for two Prescott ( 2.8E and 3.0E ) and none of them at stock speed came near the temperatura that the 3.0 outputs at 3900 speeds...
Very impressive...