10-17-2009, 05:46 AM (This post was last modified: 10-17-2009, 05:47 AM by Air.)
Or for less than half the price you can get Sunbeam's Core Contact Freezer, which is basically the same design as the Noctua but with a lot more high-conductivity copper, and better surface area contact ratings. (smoothness matters!)
It was the king of air-cooling for quite a while during the C2D era. I'm currently using the TRU-120 (non-extreme version) with a Scythe Kaze 2000RPM fan and couldn't be happier with my temps except if I went watercooling or something.
10-17-2009, 03:23 PM (This post was last modified: 10-17-2009, 03:52 PM by RPGWiZaRD.)
Granville, that's the cooler I'm using, running it at 1700rpm controlled by EasyTune6 with my Gigabyte board and full load temp in stress test (LinX which is the most heavy test) is around 70C with HT off @ 4.12GHz, 1.43125v BIOS / 1.392v (CPU-Z), about 4~5C higher with HT on. In pc games it hovers usually at 54~57C for example. Guys, Socket 775 and 1366 coolers doesn't fit on 1156.
And here's the pic for rama. ~139 FPS. So 139 vs 124 FPS, around 12% difference only. With Speedhacks (2x cycle rate, INTC Sync hack, IOP 2x cycle rate and VU stealer: slight speedup) and ZeroSPU2 I get ~180 FPS. (2nd pic). And with software rendering and 3 threads and MTGS and hacks enabled I get ~173 FPS (3rd pic).
10-17-2009, 03:47 PM (This post was last modified: 10-17-2009, 03:49 PM by Air.)
(10-17-2009, 03:23 PM)RPGWiZaRD Wrote: Guys, Socket 775 and 1366 coolers doesn't fit on 1156.
Yeah, the Sunbeam has an extra mounting bracket (a separate part unfortunately, but still cheap) that allows it to be used on i7's and i5's.
The only problems with the Sunbeam cooler: it doesn't sit as high as some others, so if your motherboard has the ram slots really close to the CPU, one or two of the slots will be unusable without "modifying" the cooler a wee bit. And as far as I know you can't control the fan speed through software. I have to use a dial that you mount in an expansion slot in your case.
But mine works well enough for sure. My C2Q at 3.4ghz runs at 34c under typical load, 44-48c under extended heavy load on 4 cores (which hardly ever happens in daily use), and never goes over 60c under the heaviest stress tests (CoreDamage, etc). That's in the summers with room tems around 30c. In the spring/winter/fall with room temps around 20c, I can't get my CPU to go over 53c.
10-17-2009, 03:57 PM (This post was last modified: 10-17-2009, 04:10 PM by RPGWiZaRD.)
(10-17-2009, 03:52 PM)rama Wrote: RPGWiZaRD:
Oww, this is a sad result. Not that the speeds are bad (they were fine to beginn with), but look how awesome many cores are for us.
Nada :/
Cmon it's software render vs hardware render ffs. ^^ Well best way to compare would be with MTGS disabled and 2 vs 4 threads in GSdx. Well nvm.
Ahaha, looks nice when Dora from KH runs at 300 FPS. There's like 3 shadows of him visible at the same time.