I'm crazily impressed by the thermal output of the overclocked 940. I'm running with, what I believe is an original Intel Core2 cooler with a copper core, it gets so hot, that I think it might bend some rules of thermodynamics 🤣 I estimate that the fins on the HSF is in the ballpark of 50 degrees C. I don't dare guessing what the core temp is.
Also, the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR board has the BIOS option of disabling CPU fan control, which according to the help text should just run it at 100% - however it doesn't seem to do anything. Anyways, at 4.4 GHz it's still stable at stock voltage, but I'm certain that if I'm getting to speeds where voltage also needs to be increased, thermals will run wild.
My question is - how do you cool your Preshotts?
I have a Zalman CNPS9900A copper cooler with heat pipes, but am missing the mounting part to sit under the motherboard for LGA775. Is that a good enough cooler, that it's worth 3D printing a bracket for it, or should I go other ways?
Last but not least - LGA775 mounting - am I really dim-witted for not really getting it? I can't really figure out when to turn the retention pegs which way, in order to lock, unlock or mount or unmount them 🤣 OTOH that made me find out that they can be changed from one cooler to another, as I broke one of the pegs, that goes through the motherboard ... 🤣
Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀