My Koolance fan speed learning curve
My Koolance fan speed learning curve
In my marathon Doom 3 ROE game fest that "I forced myself to play" for OCing testing, I found this out about the Koolance auto fan speed settings. On auto the fans won't kick up high enough to keep my system temps low enough. My temp at the water block/edge of cpu heat spreader seems to be about 10 c dif. from what the MB says it is at the CPU itself. While heavy into my Doom research for scientific meaning, the auto setting of the fan speed let the temp slip inot the 44-45c range via the koolance temp probes. I think the MB was unhappy with the 54-55 it was seeing and shut me down. Priceless research lost. Anyhow, now when I'm using this for scientific research, I set the fans on man/10/high which gives me a temp of 30 c. After that no more shutdowns. Now, If I could just figure out why windows XP pro goes into slow moe mode after about 5+ hours of intensive scientific research
PC3-724s. It's got the Koolance built right in. I swapped out my Asus A8n-SLI Deluxe out of a full server case for this mid tower Lian -Li modded by Koolance. It was a tight fit and took some time, but Its good to go now. Keep in mind this was my first water cooling adventure. My leaning curve is starting to even out. Manual fan setting of 9 or 10 seems to keep my FX-55 [.13um core] happy [30-31 c]. Got it Oced to 2.8 with 14X multiplier as anything above that, the board wont even boot at all. After Doom 3 testing and pi testing, I had to up the voltage to 1.55 to get it to run stable on Pi. Anything under that and Pi would break it sooner or later. I'm real happy with the case and water cooling, just a little put out I can't push the FX-55 much more than 200 MHZ. I shouldn't be to surprised as every article I seem to read on the FX-55 [.13u] that's about all any of the rest can get on average. Hence, I'm thinking about a FX-57 [.09u] on a SD core. Several articles I've read seem to suggest they can git 3.2-3.4 without to much trouble. Since the FX-57 will more than likely be the last of the single core chips, I don't know if I wait if the price wil go down much on them or not.
Next new build will be with water cooling and a dual core chip, but this rig is just 100% for gaming, no mulititasking, hence the thoughts of a FX-57 upgrade.
Next new build will be with water cooling and a dual core chip, but this rig is just 100% for gaming, no mulititasking, hence the thoughts of a FX-57 upgrade.