swaaye wrote:
He's showing a load temp of 35.5*C and complaining about it. Get real.
You surely know that he is testing it without a case, just a MB+CPU+basic stuff attached? And you surely noticed that AMD stock cooler (that you get for 'free' when u buy a barton) keeps it at 40C too? If you do not want to overclock, use a normal, plain, FREE, stock cooler. Hell, its not even that loud 😊
swaaye wrote:
I get the feeling you think of AXP overclocking as running 2.6 GHz on 1.9v or some such. Sure in that case you want a nice cooler but that is a bit of a pointless extreme at this point I think.
Actually no, I only think on stable and silent overclock to 2.2-2.4Ghz at stock voltage in a closed case, filled with Voodoos, sound cards and a bunch of hard drives where everything produces heat. But I get the feeling that you think of overclocking in a perfect environment with open (or no) case and air conditioning. I am afraid, we interpret the
cdoublejj wrote:Does any one know about how well the old Athlon XP 2500+ overclocked?
a bit differently 😁
One more thing - Zalman (29 C in the test) is 24$ + 9$ transport = 33$ here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zalman-CNPS7000C-ALCU … =item3cb93a6fee
vs
Thermaltake big typhoon (21 C in the test) 33 eur at amazon:
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B000CEGUK8/ref=asc_df … ASIN=B000CEGUK8
You certainly cannot disagree that 38% better cooling is not worth a few cents more? 😎
Edit: in worst case scenario (max RPM), big typhoon is also more silent then zalman e.g. 42 dB vs 48 dB.