Cooling improvement
#1
Posted 20 February 2010 - 11:13 AM
On monday I'm gonna order a new cooler, but I'd like to have your input first.
I'm currently considering these options:
Cooler iCEAGE 120 Prima Boss (R$ 179 ~ US$ 99)
Cooler Zalman CNPS7500-Cu LED (R$ 107 ~ US$ 59)
Cooler Gigabyte G-Power II (R$ 109 ~ US$ 60)
*Local reseller prices
What do you think ?
#2
Posted 20 February 2010 - 11:26 PM
#3
Posted 21 February 2010 - 12:36 AM
Also, I know I'm being irrational, but there's no way you could get me to run water anywhere near the inside of my computer.
#4
Posted 21 February 2010 - 12:41 AM
Water only.
#5
Posted 21 February 2010 - 01:26 AM
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Owner : Microsoft
Organisation : Microsoft
User : Vladimir
Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate Professional 6.01.7600
Report Date : sábado 20 fevereiro 2010 at 22:54
Voltage, Temperature and Fans
Hardware Monitoring : Winbond W83627DHG
Voltage CPU : 1.38 V
+3.3V Voltage : 3.31 V
+5V Voltage : 4.73 V
+12V Voltage : 12.14 V
Processor Fan : 3214 rpm
Chassis Fan : 2481 rpm
Power/Aux Fan : 4856 rpm
CPU1 : 3409 rpm
Processor Temperature : 56 °C
Mainboard Temperature : 39 °C
Processor :
Intel Core 2 Quad (Core 1) : 80 °C
Intel Core 2 Quad (Core 2) : 79 °C
Intel Core 2 Quad (Core 3) : 78 °C
Intel Core 2 Quad (Core 4) : 80 °C
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series : ATI Catalyst Driver
GPU Temperature : 74.5 °C
GPU Fan : 54.0%
Hard Disk Monitoring : S.M.A.R.T
Hard Disk SAMSUNG HD502HI (Assembly) : 27 °C
Hard Disk SAMSUNG HD502HI (Airflow) : 27 °C
The main reason I'm looking for an air solution is price, 'cos I have to save money to get a HD5850...... but today I found an All-In-One watercooler for a very good price. Considering your thoughts and that thing I think I will go for water.
What do you think of that? Worth?
I can have one for R$ 168,00 (US$ 93)
All the other water solutions I've found are much morer expensive!
Kit Watercooler Topcooler AMD/Intel ~ R$ 480 (US$ 266)
Kit Watercooler Corsair INTEL775 ~ R$ 560 (US$ 310)
#6
Posted 21 February 2010 - 07:53 PM
#8
Posted 24 February 2010 - 12:50 AM
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http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/836/8
The 3R System iCEAGE Prima Boss seemed to be a good cooler at first look, but it proved to be an excellent one.Its performance was on the same level of the best coolers we have tested under this methodology, even with a lower price than most of them. Its noise level is excellent at low speeds and acceptable at maximum settings. We really like the practicality of automatic speed control fans, but the fact this one comes with a manual fan controller that allows you to adjust speed without opening your case is really nice, allowing you to choose if you want maximum performance when noise level does not matter or sacrify a little performance when silence is desirable or necessary. Finally, the transparent four blue LEDs fan gives an "icy" look to your computer (obviously, if you have a side window on your case).
For all this, the 3R System iCEAGE Prima Boss deserves the Hardware Secrets Golden Award seal.
And it has 4 cool blue LEDs and a speed controler
#9
Posted 24 February 2010 - 12:53 AM
#10
Posted 24 February 2010 - 01:00 AM
#11
Posted 24 February 2010 - 01:04 AM
- Take a soft cloth, preferably cotton
- Mount the cloth on a belt-sander or some other sort of sander
- Set the sander to it's lowest speed
- Softly let the piece of cloth polish the cooling-block
When done, clean the cooling-block with pure alcohol.
It really, really, I've tested it really, saves you 3 degrees C., up to 5 for me in the best case scenario.
#12
Posted 24 February 2010 - 01:36 AM
Ops... 3-5ºC are not to a think to throw away.
#13
Posted 24 February 2010 - 01:47 AM
vrosa x64, on Feb 24 2010, 02:36 AM, said:
Ops... 3-5ºC are not to a think to throw away.
I have once tried the car-polish thingy. That's a bad result. Really, really, really soft and smooth is the answer on this, lately, I use an old sweater which seems to be working. a non-fleece sweater btw. It's gotta be cotton, fleece and such will only static-charge the block
#14
Posted 24 February 2010 - 03:09 AM
#15
Posted 24 February 2010 - 01:53 PM
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I'm loving it
Today I ran IntelBurnTest again and what a surprise!... During a "10x standard test" CPU (Tcase) kept between 37-42ºC and Tjunction between 60-65ºC... what means a decrease of arround 5ºC in core temps and something about 10ºC in CPU temp. I read some thermal compunds reviews and it seems that in the first 24 hs there's already a nice thermal conductivity gain, but full potential is only reached in 200 hs or more. I left my rig folding all the night to begin curing the paste and I think it was worth.
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The first 2 cores are always 2 to 3ºC hotter than the others
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