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Paul Olson:
Thanks for the reply. I need to cool it down some; what is the best cooler at the moment? It is stable but hot right now. I ran orthos for an hour but stopped it because I didn't want to run it that hot for too long. It was actually at 72c. I don't mind buying a new cooler, but I don't want to buy another mediocre one.

I had xp64 on my cab before the upgrade because my wireless card doesn't have vista64 drivers. The biggest issue for me is the encoder; I need to be able to switch the inputs for different control types on the fly.
taz-nz:

--- Quote from: Paul Olson on January 14, 2009, 02:00:44 pm ---Thanks for the reply. I need to cool it down some; what is the best cooler at the moment? It is stable but hot right now. I ran orthos for an hour but stopped it because I didn't want to run it that hot for too long. It was actually at 72c. I don't mind buying a new cooler, but I don't want to buy another mediocre one.

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For AIR cooling it's still hard to beat a Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme, but I suggest you get the newer version the Thermalright True Black 120 which comes with two sets of wire fan clips so you can pair of fans in a push pull setup.

For the fans I suggest you get a two Scythe S-FLEX SFF21F 120x120x25mm 1600rpm Fans, they have good air flow, low noise and the Fluid Dynamic Bearing means they just keep going and going and going.

This is not a cheap solution but it is one of the best, also Crazy PC that I linked to about offers a Lapping service on many of the heatsinks they sell, which may not be a bad idea to get done too.

If you go this route make sure you do the penny mod, basically you place a thin coin on top of the heat sink block under the mounting bracket, which increases the mounting force and noticable improves the heatsinks preformance.

There are a number of cheaper heatsinks of the market with similar designs some come very closes in preformance overs are badly made rip off of the design. The Sunbeam (Tuniq) Core Contact Freezer is one of the best of cheap versions of this style of heatsinks, but it only supports one fan, so there is a bit of a trade off between fan noise and preformance, but it does offer great value for money.




Paul Olson:
The True sounds great, but my budget doesn't like it much. I ordered the Core Contact Freezer from Newegg. They sell it for $39.99, but there is a $10 rebate and free shipping.

Hopefully it will be here by Saturday, and I can get this system back up and running. I decided to go back to XP64; my wireless card won't work with vista64.

Thanks
Paul Olson:
I'm still waiting for the new cooler, but I couldn't wait to test. The difference between 3GHz and 4GHz in Gauntlet Legends is amazing. It crawled at 3, but is mostly full speed at 4. It still slows down when there are a lot of enemies on screen, but it may have done that some on the dedicated machines as well - I can't remember. I am hoping to push the speed up a bit with better cooling. It is stable without any tweaking at 1.37 core voltage, so I am hoping there is quite a bit of room left.

Has anyone tested the e7300 yet? Is there any chance it could outclock an e8400 since it has the 10x multiplier? I just put a PC together using one for my girlfriend which is not going to be overclocked, and I don't want the chip to go to waste if it is better. At the same time, I don't want her to complain about me tearing here computer apart if it won't do me any good.  ;)
taz-nz:

--- Quote from: Paul Olson on January 17, 2009, 04:32:15 pm ---Has anyone tested the e7300 yet? Is there any chance it could outclock an e8400 since it has the 10x multiplier? I just put a PC together using one for my girlfriend which is not going to be overclocked, and I don't want the chip to go to waste if it is better. At the same time, I don't want her to complain about me tearing here computer apart if it won't do me any good.  ;)

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I wouldn't like to call that one Paul, clock for clock the E8400 is going to be faster than the E7300, but as to which one will overclock better is down to luck, one CPU might be from a great production batch and other a very average one, just comes down to how Intel was binning the dies the day the CPU were made.

Only real way to know for sure is try them both.


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