Zid

Yeah, I built a similar PC. The only difference is I used a Core 2 Duo but that article is a year old so, I'm assuming when you decided this the C2D's weren't around yet.

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Apophis

I don't actually recall what else was around. It looked appealing due to the extremely low cost of the CPU and the extreme overclockability.

I'll be in Core 2 Duo land tonight though.

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Zid

You won't be dissapointed =D

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Apophis

No. I certainly won't. I just built two Core 2 Duo based RHEL4 servers here at the office. They are screamers. I did have some issues with the PCI-X based SAS RAID controllers, but that was more of a motherboard/OS issue than anything. Certainly not something I'm going to have a problem with at home as I don't use SAS.

I ran SETI on both of them for a couple weeks to really stress them out to see how they performed. I was very very very impressed.

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Snail88

I have pretty much the same problem as you. I have a pretty hot room during the summer and my rig kept rebooting itself since it was getting too hot. So this year i went watercooling and got a Corsair Nautilus 500. I have my CPU and my GPU in the loop. Ae first everything was awesome....temps were 30C CPU and 50C GPU on idle and my GPU never got over 56/57C on load.

So it started getting warmer out and i figure well, it should be good, its water...wrong. I kept getting blue screens of death about 10 minutes into a game. It really peeves me off since its on water, everythings on stock and it still overheats....i dont get it. I even reset the CMOS to make sure everythings on default. I think my Northbridge is overheating since my Mobo isnt that great, but i dont know.

X2 4800+
2 gb OCZ platnium ram
8800gtx watercooled ed.

Sorry, i didnt mean to hijack the thread, i just wanted to empathize with you and maybe i could find a solution as well. Right now, i had to move into my basement, but i really hate having it down there, so hopefully i can figure it out.

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Cappy

Apophis my E6600 runs about 38c idle with the stock cooling fan that came with it. on a HEAVY laod(Seti@home running at 100% both cpu's) it gets to 43-45c Seti@home is a number crunchin program for science along with a few others i run when not gaming their very cpu heavy soooooooo i think your purchase will work out great im looking into swaping out the stock cpu cooler for a http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/produc...0/cl-p0310.asp ive gotten nothing but good reviews on it,, well everyone that i know that runs one recomends it... and their only about 49 dollars so thats not bad,,, just gota make sure you have the room in your case for it

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Wimpinator

I wonder if something could be building up in the radiator or heat sink affecting the thermal exchange. Should the coolant be changed periodically?

I don't have a water cooling system so this is merely speculation.

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BeSiege82

well, I love my Core 2 duo, but BIG QUESTION: which way is your fan pointing- in or out? If you only had 2 fans: 1 going in and 1 going out. Does your ram have the new liquid cool system? How big is your motherboard and how much room is in your case, and your power supply has what for its cooling system?

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Grunt 70

bumpity...bump...I'm curious to find out what's happened...If you guys can't figure it out it's got to be pretty obscure...

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Apophis

I still haven't had time to figure out what was going on with my old CPU/motherboard. But it's sitting here waiting for further testing.

My new Core 2 Duo system is great. I simplified things and ditched my watercooling system I was using on the Pentium D 805 and went with stock air cooling. Temps on the new machine are running nice and cool. 100% load temps on the C2D are lower than my idle temps on the 805!

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ednos

So now you can play lots and LOTS of games, right?

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TheBigC

I had similar issues with one of my rigs not too long ago. I sat there for almost a week trying to figure out what it was with the the water cooling system. Long story short, the pump was running, liquid in the tubes but I had high temps. After some time I figured out it was two issues, first was there was nothing flowing. I thought I saw liquid moving but once I put a flowmeter inline, it showed nothing was moving. So basically the only thing cooling the CPU was the standing liquid that was directly on the CPU. The cause of all of this was the placement of my pump. I had it configured where I thought it was working, but once I installed the flowmeter I could move the pump around and tell the optimal placement.

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BeSiege82

good to hear

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PanzerHans

I think you had a flow issue. The cooling blocks clogs after some time.

Example:


Almost no matter what you do organic buildup will form in the system, where you need to open the blocks and flush it.

Same incident with closeup:


If the system had been sitting some time since you last used it, chances are even greater that this was the cause. A flowmeter will show it(as stated earlier in the thread).

It is smart to buy lookthrough blocks. This guy has some great hardware(links to resellers in the website).
I only wish I could get them directly in Norway

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Tonk

if u have an asus mobo.. you should have the PCProbe II utility... it has a sensor for all RPM voltage and temps for everything on your mobo.. try that?

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