My Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme

[WoodButcher]

Your using the tat to load your cpu, most that I have seen and me too, use orthos to load and tat to monitor. Running tat I'll reach 55c and I'm on water. 45c orthos

 

[renozi]

well, I did it your way WoodButcher and at 3.33GHz 1.42vcore 1.39vdroop ambient 24C I got 53 running orthos with tat monitoring. 😀 only 8C away from your watercooled!

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[WoodButcher]

Originally posted by: renozi
well, I did it your way WoodButcher and at 3.33GHz 1.42vcore 1.39vdroop ambient 24C I got 53 running orthos with tat monitoring. 😀 only 8C away from your watercooled!

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With that comparision it seems your doing pretty well then.
My temp is w/ vcore at 1.49 @ 3.4GHz so Ive got to think our cpu's are pretty close. 8 degrees that I paid a small fortune for. I think you've got a damn fine setup. :thumbsup:

 

[nealh]

Originally posted by: WoodButcher

Originally posted by: renozi
well, I did it your way WoodButcher and at 3.33GHz 1.42vcore 1.39vdroop ambient 24C I got 53 running orthos with tat monitoring. 😀 only 8C away from your watercooled!

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With that comparision it seems your doing pretty well then.
My temp is w/ vcore at 1.49 @ 3.4GHz so Ive got to think our cpu's are pretty close. 8 degrees that I paid a small fortune for. I think you've got a damn fine setup. :thumbsup:

but WCing is an addiction...

 

[renozi]

yeah, for my next build next year i'm looking in to water cooling!

update: running at 3.5GHz 1.51vcore 1.49 vdroop 25C ambient, 60C in orthos with tat monitoring. My chip is an L624 which I got pretty early during retail release.

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[WoodButcher]

Nice dude, is it stable? orthos overnight? memtest? 3dmark? all that happiness? With temps like that water is loosing its attraction.

 

[renozi]

I was just testing. I'll do orthos overnight...overnight. 😛

Since i switched to bios 2004 a few weeks ago it overclocks a lot better with less vcore.

this is the fastest i'm able to push this proc...for now (muahah): http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=197043
vcore was 1.56 <- too high for me running it 24/7. Maybe the 3.5 might do. 🙂

 

[graysky]

@renozi - So what kind of TAT temps do those settings (10x360 @ 1.56v) give you?

 

[renozi]

I'm not gonna even run TAT at 1.56v 3.6GHz because as soon as I hit orthos, temps shot up to 64C, meaning ~70C if running TAT. YIKES!

Update: 3.5GHz 1.51vcore 1.49 vdroop 24C ambient Orthos stable 8 hours overnight. Avg temp was 60C, peak at 64C, low at 56C! 😀 I'm keeping it at 3.5GHz, but do you think vcore at 1.51v is too high?

 

[WoodButcher]

The 1.49 is where I'm at. It has been at 1.49 for the past month and I still have a chip. dunno, how's that hot rod of yours compare mine on the intel specs? I think it is the same save for the multiplier. Just watch your temps.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: renozi
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=143171

seems right graysky, i'm going with my cpu temps from the diode and not DTS. Currently ambient 28C 3.30GHz @ 1.41 in bios 1.39 vdroop idle 32C load tat 46C

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oh shoot, your victor wang over at XS? 😱

Take all the time you need Testing! XSTA does not need your machine crunching. DDTung is lying to you.

<grin>

 

[renozi]

no no im not victor at XS. lol i'm renozi over there too!

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: renozi
no no im not victor at XS. lol i'm renozi over there too!

lol i was going to say.

I get kinda suprised when legends post here.


But people on that post were bitching about no coretemp reading. I think coretemp is a must now. :\

 

[renozi]

well yea i read that and felt bad for the guy. If you read my earlier posts on here:

Originally posted by: renozi
in the recent issue of Maximum PC one of the editors asked Intel which is the correct temperature reading of the cpu.
"There are two different temperature measurements going on inside a Core 2. Each individual core has its own digital thermal sensor (DTS) that writes a value to a register in the core. The number the DTS reports, however, is not the temperature of the core, it is a value that counts down to zero. When it hits zero, the core should throttle down. It's also intended to be used for controlling fan speeds, not as a direct temperature reference. Core Temp is guessing (incorrectly, according to Intel) what the offset is.
There's also an old-fashioned thermal diode inside the CPU, just off to the side of the two processors, under the lid. Intel says the temperature the diode reports is probably more indicative of the CPU's actual temperature (and it's probably what the BIOS and more OEM motherboard utilities report). Still, that number isn't necessarily correct."

so i don't find anything wrong with his method of monitoring temperature, it was pretty close to what Intel says you should do. however, i do use tat to monitor my DTS (tjunction) temps when doing any overclocking tests. 🙂