owh thx for the info man.. for now V6GT is all i can afford.. what do u think of H70? is the performance almost as good as DIY WC? and what would be a safe temp for 4.0 Ghz overclock for i7-950? is 87 degrees still ok or what?

oh mai....1.59v with H50 + HT on summore....
be careful bro...
even me sked to put 1.5v on my vcore...

@farisbangsar

H70 is no where near DIY WC bro...
try noctua nh-d14...this cooler is king of the hill right now iinm...

Hmm.. I run my 920@ 4Ghz every day. On stress it could reach 90c++, but no worry liao. It wont reach that temp. when you gaming. Only stress software could load the CPU to the max..

wow 90c++? thats quite high dude.. whats your idle temp? mine is about 49-52C.. i would prefer around 40C..

Wow. Almost 1.6v. I wonder what is your load temp.

thats why i mention earlier LOL...
HT is ON also...
that proc will degrade fast... .

its not gonna degrade
its gonna die soon >.<"

btw, safe temp would be below 100C .
it dont matter much, if it reaches the threshold, it'll restart the PC .
so no biggie

yes quite hot. maximum temp will reach 92'c. But after I lower down the vcore to 1.5v, the CPU will become unstable then BSOD.
Its almost 2 months I'm using my computer with these settings. My computer was placed in my bedroom with room temperature of 20'c.
Currently at this level, with vcore 1.6v + HT + 4.32GHz. My CPU can pass 3DMark 11 CPU test 5 and Combine test 6 without problem.
My RAM is 2000Mhz but only can reach 1800MHz with X.M.P overclocking mode.
But usually the CPU won't keep at that temp for long term. Besides, its depend more on GPU for gaming. Usually will not loading much on CPU.



I'm using Corsair H50 but I was replaced the thermal grease with tuniq tx-2. Previously I'm replaced with tuniq tx-4 but my CPU was not stable and keep BSOD and reboot.
The stock H50 thermal pad can only make my CPU overclock to 4.2GHz but my RAM able to overclock until 2100MHz. But after I replaced with Tuniq TX-2, my CPU can overclock until 4.32GHz but RAM have to decrease to 1800MHz since it was linked with CPU with XMP mode.

My H50 have 2 fans but not 1 fan. I was added another 2000rpm CoolerMaster fan to another side of radiator. However, the fan will become noisy when CPU loading. Therefore, I was bought a Lamptron FC5 to adjust the CM fan to around 1000~1100rpm.





This post has been edited by junclj: Apr 18 2011, 11:01 PM

then u better go for 4.2 and gain more on the ram man
4.0 is more than enough for nowadays apps .
above that is just benchmark wise >.<"

Yepp, when you stress your machine, then only you know how good your cooling performance. Idle based on RealTemp around 50~52c

This post has been edited by gengstapo: Apr 19 2011, 02:45 AM

ic ic.. bro ur using rampage 3 right? can u decrease ur cpu voltage to below 1.25?

i got bad chip .
havent really test them out yet .
just got my GC back from RMA yesterday and now im in kelantan .
still no time to do so bro .
but now im at 1.35v for 4.2ghz iinm .

Hmm got question here. Why the score for Vantage(CPU score) much much high when running NVidia card compared to ATI?
Is it coz of the Physx thingy?

Yes
Cause by default,Nvidia Physx is enabled
Go to nvidia control panel and choose physx/cuda processor to cpu instead

Err, so ATI user dont have a chances to archive high CPU score laa?
Like that??

Actually sorta
Cause with Physx enable,it is the graphic card that run the cpu test instead of cpu
So to keep it fair,hwbot mandate everyone to turn off physx to post their oc result up

Thanks for the tips.
No wonder when I run SLI, my CPU score reach 40k, after I switch to ATI, CPU score less than 20k~

Yeap...so to keep it fair for comparison,off the physx for more accurate result

i wonder if ur cooling able to survive linX test for that high volt.

How bout running Radeon as main display while GeForce for PhysX. Is it cool? Thinking to try but afraid Forceware will disturb the Catalyst system..