Phenom II OverClocking Essentials

[Krow]

I saw the OCZ Vanquisher for 1.3k. My budget for the CPU HSF is 3k MAX! Plz suggest good coolers for my 940 BE!

 

[damngoodman999]

I saw the OCZ Vanquisher for 1.3k. My budget for the CPU HSF is 3k MAX! Plz suggest good coolers for my 940 BE!

How abt

Cooler Master Hyper N 520 RR-920-N520-GP CPU Cooler

 

[dOm1naTOr]

gte the one with 120mm fan support and max cfm [if u dun care bout noise]. With 120mm fan support, u can buy additional CM 90cfm high performance fans to get max out of ur cooler. normal 120mm fans have avg of 40cfm airflow.

 

[Krow]

Okay, will keep that in mind, but can u suggest a brand? I was looking at the OCZ Vendetta 2 & i found out that it was only for Intel!

 

[desiibond]

gte the one with 120mm fan support and max cfm [if u dun care bout noise]. With 120mm fan support, u can buy additional CM 90cfm high performance fans to get max out of ur cooler. normal 120mm fans have avg of 40cfm airflow.

True. I bought Cooler master 120mm 90CFM fan today and fixed it to side panel of my cabinet and damn, from 43-50, temperatures came down to 34-42.

True VFM

 

[Krow]

I have the same one but with blue LED and its fixed in front of my HDDs and they never go above 39!

But Damn, fixing the Fan was a headache for sure. It took me about 3 hrs to get the screws to fit in the very tight slots of the fan! How did u fix 'em?

 

[MetalheadGautham]

True. I bought Cooler master 120mm 90CFM fan today and fixed it to side panel of my cabinet and damn, from 43-50, temperatures came down to 34-42.

True VFM

Cost ???

 

[desiibond]

Cost ???

600 bucks.

 

[dOm1naTOr]

it has LEDs too. but fins are not transperent.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

I'm waiting to see how the Phenom II X4 925 launches. Its 95W TDP. A lot better overclocking support this means.

 

[Krow]

I'm getting Idle core temps of 48-52 and load temps of 62-66!!! I'm gonna get new thermal paste and I also added an 80mm fan which is 3 years old. Came with my old iBall Cabby!It doesnt seem to have much of an effect though! I'll get a CPU cooler and try to turn the 120mm back panel fan inward and c what happens... Will keep u posted ppl...

 

[damngoodman999]

I'm getting Idle core temps of 48-52 and load temps of 62-66!!! I'm gonna get new thermal paste and I also added an 80mm fan which is 3 years old. Came with my old iBall Cabby!It doesnt seem to have much of an effect though! I'll get a CPU cooler and try to turn the 120mm back panel fan inward and c what happens... Will keep u posted ppl...

Which cabinet in iball are u using ??

Then do u apply thermal paste over thermal sticker in the Stock cooler ??

 

[desiibond]

I'm getting Idle core temps of 48-52 and load temps of 62-66!!! I'm gonna get new thermal paste and I also added an 80mm fan which is 3 years old. Came with my old iBall Cabby!It doesnt seem to have much of an effect though! I'll get a CPU cooler and try to turn the 120mm back panel fan inward and c what happens... Will keep u posted ppl...

hey
keep that 120mm on the side panel of cabinet. in my pc, the temps came down by nearly 10degrees after installing CM 120mm fan

 

[damngoodman999]

I'm getting Idle core temps of 48-52 and load temps of 62-66!!! I'm gonna get new thermal paste and I also added an 80mm fan which is 3 years old. Came with my old iBall Cabby!It doesnt seem to have much of an effect though! I'll get a CPU cooler and try to turn the 120mm back panel fan inward and c what happens... Will keep u posted ppl...

I got the solution : in the BIOS the Vcore watts is 1.39 something Set it to 1.35 then the Temperature will be less , with 1.39 u can OC to 3.3Ghz to 3.5Ghz

Actual Vcore watts is 1.25 for normal Phenom 2 940 3ghz , with good CPU cooler put the Vcore to 1.45 & OC to 3.8Ghz to 4Ghz

 

[desiibond]

wow. that's a great piece of info. Let me try to push it to 3.5GHz. first time that I am seeing that decreasing vcore voltage is resulting in better overclock

 

[damngoodman999]

^^ i dint find that by self , i just searching about the mobo info i found in some forums

 

[Krow]

I got the solution : in the BIOS the Vcore watts is 1.39 something Set it to 1.35 then the Temperature will be less , with 1.39 u can OC to 3.3Ghz to 3.5Ghz

Actual Vcore watts is 1.25 for normal Phenom 2 940 3ghz , with good CPU cooler put the Vcore to 1.45 & OC to 3.8Ghz to 4Ghz

I'll try nw that u told me! I'll try 1.25V 1st. Got DUAL BIOS so no need to reset CMOS every time I fail! GIGABYTE rocks!

 

[damngoodman999]

I'll try nw that u told me! I'll try 1.25V 1st. Got DUAL BIOS so no need to reset CMOS every time I fail! GIGABYTE rocks!

Ur motherboard is wonderful board especially for phenom 2 , Get F1 bios ,,

 

[Krow]

Which cabinet in iball are u using ??

Then do u apply thermal paste over thermal sticker in the Stock cooler ??


Ur motherboard is wonderful board especially for phenom 2 , Get F1 bios ,,

I have CM Elite 334. Old one was iBall Grabit. I dint put any thermal paste yet. M gonna buy that before the CPU cooler. Is it great if I remove the Thermal sticker pad or whatever that was stock and apply only the Thermal Paste? Btw, The inversion of the stock cabby fan made a change of 2-3 degs.

I suppose I'll update the BIOS too. I thank topgear for mobo selection. He recommended it to me. The best thing is that 4 SATA2 ports are at right angles and 2 are vertical, which isnt the case in GA-MA790GP-DS4H.

 

[Krow]

Okay... So I already have F1 bios. I'm updating to F2 as F3 is still beta (F3A). Then I'll lower the vcore to 1.25 and i'll report.