Athlon OC - which is 'best'?

[uberlad]

I@m thinking I might just go crazy, dismantle a desk fan and strap it to a blow hole. Might be able to find a fan that's quiet enough to not notice, and that has got to move some serious air inside the case, although I dunno how it'd get out.......

Or am I just drunk?

Uberlad, drunk on power and absinthe (I think the absinthe really helped)

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8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
5 out of 10 referred to me by name.

[Himself]

I am using a thermally controlled fan right now, goes from (2000-3500rpm), the probe is attached to the top of the video card, so as the video card heats up the fan goes faster. My power supply is like that too, not that there is ever enough heat for it to actually do anything. I have the inside of my case insulated with foam, all holes covered up, the setup is very quiet. I'd guess 10-15db, about as good as I'm going to get before spending some money.

[Wombat]

Nope, you're just drunk A regular desk fan doesn't have any shielding.

[uberlad]

Now rather more sober I realised that Blue Tac will suffice to fit the fan in.

It's now running, case closed, at about 27/28 degrees.

I think I'll see what a bit of Heavy Q3 is going to do to it....

Uberlad


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8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
5 out of 10 referred to me by name.

[Novdid]

If you all want to cool a Socket A CPU for OC'ing, get one of those Kanie Hedgehog heatsinks offcourse with arctic silver compound.

[Paddy]

Using the ASUS probe software that came with my A7V i see that my CPU is 47'C and my mobo is 32'C - with minimum fans on.

Is this a bad temp?
I can lower the CPU to about 40'C but it gets noisey?

What do you think?

[uberlad]

Curently my system goes from 27 degrees at rest to a maximum of about 48 degrees after 2 hours of Prime95.

The temp probe on the KT7 isn't apparently that accurate, being mounted under the CPU so the actual values may be higher.

My system temp gets just over thirty.

It seems perfectly stable, and considering that before I get the other fan in there it was getting up to 59 after five mins of Quake I'm reckonging that 47/8 is a safe temp.

Although I might change my tune should the chip fry in a couple of months.....8-)

Uberlad

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8 out of 10 women say they would feel no qualms about hitting a man.
5 out of 10 referred to me by name.