Opteron 165 cooling

[The Batt?sai]

i want to run my opty at 2.6 gigahertz at 1.4 volts. it works but my computer quickly overheats. currently i have a thermalright or thermaltake? 120 mm water cooing for it but its not doing the job.

what is the absolute best air cooler? i want it to be very cool but nothing like a tornado. the zalman 9500 and scythe's look good. any ideas anyone? I am willing for some noise but not excessive. I want to get about 45C at load for 2.6 gigahertz.

the room temp is 75 F. right now its at 2.0 gigahertz 44 C and 40 C for the chipset. running a game sends the temps for both to 51 C.

i have a artic silencer 1 on my ati card, x800xt. i also have 1 80mm intake on the side, 1 80 mm intake on the top, 1 120 mm intake on the front, the water cooling 120mm outtake on the back, plus the 2 power supply fans (enermax eg495axve)

 

[imported_Seer]

50c is okay for processors. I'm not sure about your chipset, however. Chances are its fine though. (You might wanna mention what board your using )

 

[The Batt?sai]

running on a asrock dualsata2 (with the agp slot)

50C for a 2.0 clockspeed is not good. not when i wanna do 2.6.

 

[taylor77]

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[starwars7]

well your mobo may be a problem. that isn't the best OC board.

I'm at around 42C at Load and I'm at 2.5Ghz

 

[CP5670]

I think the best one is currently the Tuniq Tower. Any of the top three or four are safe bets (that one and the SI-120, Big Typhoon and Ninja). I got a BT for my 165 (since the Tuniq Tower doesn't fit on DFI boards) and get around 46C maximum load with 2.85ghz at 1.425V.

Although I would think that your water system should be better than any of these.

 

[n7]

51C load is not anywhere close to overheating.

However, the Zalman 9500, or TT BT would lower those temps.