Cooling for OC'ed quad?

Havegooda {A|R} said:
Vdroop is caused by your motherboard, not your PSU. If you got a well known board, there's usually a dampening option in your BIOS (ASUS for sure), or a pencil mod that'll effectively eliminate vdroop.

My Q6600 was able to hit 3Ghz stable with LESS than stock volts (1.275v). I'm sure you can lower yours a bit.

~Gooda~
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You are correct. My bad about the PSU and VDroop. Duh! Anyways, I don't think my motherboard has a fix for it, but I'll look around and see what I can find. I have a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R.
 
Quads are much tougher to cool than dual core though. They do warm up a bit. My q9450 runs at 35 idle and 47-50 under load with an ultra 120 with noctua nfs-12 fan. It works quite well. I have thought about lapping my cpu for a bit more but its fine as it is and I don't oc far since there isnt much need to.
 
Danamics will soon launch their liquid metal heatsink. Supposedly beats any liquid cooling setup.
 
My current temps:

(yes I know one HDD runs hot)

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FreakingHell said:
Danamics will soon launch their liquid metal heatsink. Supposedly beats any liquid cooling setup.
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Looks like a TRUE...I doubt that it'd rival a good WC setup, but we'll see. I've been wrong before, lol.

Slippe, are those temps at stock? Vcore?

~Gooda~
 
Havegooda {A|R} said:
Looks like a TRUE...I doubt that it'd rival a good WC setup, but we'll see. I've been wrong before, lol.

Slippe, are those temps at stock? Vcore?

~Gooda~
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The technology has been around for a long time for other cooling uses. This will just be the first time they've been able to integrate it into what we need it to be for main stream desktop use. It's been proving to work, in other shapes and sizes, just not like this before. It really should work, I'd be surprised if it didn't.
 
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