Tuniq Tower woe's

[lavaheadache]

wow, quite a bit of action has happend in here over the past day.

Thanks Ruby, sounds like you have my problem pinned down. So are you saying that the true will be much better at cooling my oc'd quad? I'm sure I can sell my tuniq for 30 bucks or so and pck me up a TRUE. I just don't wanna be in the same boat again.

 

[Rubycon]

Yes whatever temps at load you register with the board horizontal you will see the same with the board mounted in the case. (providing airflow is sufficient to keep the intake air close to ambient, etc.)

 

[lavaheadache]

picked up a coolermaster v8 at the local pc shop for 69 bucks. 58 load on all 4 cores, 3.6 400x9 1.312 vcore. Problem solved. seems as though the tuniq's limit with my setup is good for 3.2 @1.28 vcore and like 55c, lifting the pc doesn't do much. 3.6 works @ 1.312 but only if the pc is laying flat, lifting the pc up will cause the cooler to loose efficiency and cause instability after a few moments.

I ended up cutting an access hole through the motherboard tray on my antec 900 so i could remount or remove the V8 without pulling the motherboard off(not really my favorite thing to do). I also had to trim off the corner of the side mounted 120mm fan to allow proper clearance of the v8 as it sits a little taller than the tuniq tower. I already had to cut the corner off the fan before because one of the fins from tuniq would hit it, just had to trim even more.

FYI my pc's packing a V8 =)