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| System Name | --- |
|---|---|
| Processor | FX 8350 @ 4.00 Ghz with 1.28v |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte 990FX-UD3 v4.0, Hacked Bios F4.x |
| Cooling | Silenx 4 pipe Tower cooler + 2 x Cougar 120mm fan, 3 x 120mm, 1 x 200 mm Red LED fan |
| Memory | Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 16GB + Patriot Memory DDR3 1866 16GB |
| Video Card(s) | Asus R9 290 OC @ GPU - 1050, MEM - 1300 |
| Storage | Inland 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD for OS, WDC Black - 2TB + 1TB Storage, Inland 480GB SSD - Games |
| Display(s) | 3 x 1080P LCDs - Acer 25" + Acer 23" + HP 23" |
| Case | AeroCool XPredator X3 |
| Audio Device(s) | Built-in Realtek |
| Power Supply | Corsair HX1000 Modular |
| Software | Windows 10 Pro 64 bit |
With my new Biostar mobo I was having tough time overclocking the same 5600 that I used on the broken Abit board. The Abit board clocked the chip to 3.4G @ just 1.325v and never went over 50C under load. This I used my old trusty TT Mini Typhoon. But when my Abit was giving trouble I had to replace the board with the Biostar Tforce TF8200A. Somehow the TT's base is not flat anymore, I tried to lap but its center is bent in and side is out with one edge bulged in, may be heat? So if I need to lap it might take years
.
So decided to get a new one and saw this HDT-D1264 on sale @ Microcenter.
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0288209
This one is useless son of a bi**h. The heat pipes where not centered and didn't make contact with the core center. And it was fu***ng pain to install and the fins tore my fingers to bleed when forcing the clip to latch. The contact was so poor that the cpu needs more than 1.4V to reach 3.4G. At this voltage Orthos was not stable at all. Most stable freq was 3.3G and at full load the core temps were 71 and 75 that too within 3 minutes of load. Not good.
So went back to MC and bought this gem
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0288207
Has a $15 rebate.
Initially I didn't want a tower with side blower because of my case, thats why I always wanted a top down cooling.
And with the cooler I also bought this awesome Enermax Magma fan
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0282764
Has a rebate for $10 too.
The Xigmatek fan that came with the cooler was slightly noisy and didn't feel like it pushed a lot of air. So tested this red guy and it is amazingly quiet and moved lot of air. So put the red fan on the cooler and install of the cooler was a breeze (ofcourse fresh drop of AS5).
The cooler's middle Heatpipe was exactly in center of the cpu and was in touch with the core area.
Guess what the temps now?
freaking 46 and 50C under Orthos full load. The voltage needed where just 1.325V (just like the Abit) and its happy @3.4G. Gaming never went past 40C. I had to remove the side case 80mm fan because I couldn't put the side on.
Now I understand why this cooler has loads of praises. Thanks Xigmatek, u saved me from buying a new mobo (because I thought my mobo is bad clocker and runs hot). And oh Xigma please remove that piece of sh*t cooler HDT-D1264 from the market, may be melt it and recycle it to S1283
.So decided to get a new one and saw this HDT-D1264 on sale @ Microcenter.
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0288209
This one is useless son of a bi**h. The heat pipes where not centered and didn't make contact with the core center. And it was fu***ng pain to install and the fins tore my fingers to bleed when forcing the clip to latch. The contact was so poor that the cpu needs more than 1.4V to reach 3.4G. At this voltage Orthos was not stable at all. Most stable freq was 3.3G and at full load the core temps were 71 and 75 that too within 3 minutes of load. Not good.
So went back to MC and bought this gem
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0288207
Has a $15 rebate.
Initially I didn't want a tower with side blower because of my case, thats why I always wanted a top down cooling.
And with the cooler I also bought this awesome Enermax Magma fan
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0282764
Has a rebate for $10 too.
The Xigmatek fan that came with the cooler was slightly noisy and didn't feel like it pushed a lot of air. So tested this red guy and it is amazingly quiet and moved lot of air. So put the red fan on the cooler and install of the cooler was a breeze (ofcourse fresh drop of AS5).
The cooler's middle Heatpipe was exactly in center of the cpu and was in touch with the core area.
Guess what the temps now?
freaking 46 and 50C under Orthos full load. The voltage needed where just 1.325V (just like the Abit) and its happy @3.4G. Gaming never went past 40C. I had to remove the side case 80mm fan because I couldn't put the side on.
Now I understand why this cooler has loads of praises. Thanks Xigmatek, u saved me from buying a new mobo (because I thought my mobo is bad clocker and runs hot). And oh Xigma please remove that piece of sh*t cooler HDT-D1264 from the market, may be melt it and recycle it to S1283
