Even so, my i5 idles at 30 and full load 70 and thats with 18c ambient and water cooling :)
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Even so, my i5 idles at 30 and full load 70 and thats with 18c ambient and water cooling :)
A friend of mine bought the i5 750, hes running at 4.1 GHz with a Zalman CNPS10X Extreme. I think the temp were someting like nibbler`s i5 :P So its a nice cpu.
Yeah, btw jim, weren't you tmpted to go for like a massively stupdid overclock with thsoe temps? Like just see how high it goes with a high vcore :P
Sadly that was before I did the full build - I just fired it all up to make sure everything was working, 'cos you never know with these dodgy dealers on forums ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by nibbler
By the time I finished the actual build I'd turned the heating up a bit, and the CPU was at something like 9 degrees - nowhere near as impressive...
What kind of cooling was it again? And what was load temps :D
Pictures or it didn't happen? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by nibbler
I'm just curious :D
ftfy ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by nibbler
And Proud!
To respond to that accusation in a rather childish manner:
;)Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
lol, you have a point :D
The cooler is a Kama Scythe Mine - a 100mm fan tower cooler. I'm going to be very interested in exactly how far it'll take my lowly X2 3800+, but I'm not going to start 'clocking it yet - the case it's in has very poor airflow so I need to do a bit of work to improve that before I start pushing it (look out for the modding thread :D ). Obviously I couldn't do a load test from the BIOS :P but I'll probably stick some numbers up once I've sorted the cases and started the clocking.
my alter-nerd-ego is pleased now :)
Just to reiterate guys, the i5 is the one to go for?
My Win7 RC is about to expire so I'm going to have to do a fresh install of Windows sooner rather than later. The thing is that I don't want to end up having to do 2 fresh install of Windows, 1 for my current rig now and eventually another for when I finally upgrade. So I might as well kill 2 birds with one stone and up my rig and only do 1 install.
I've got a GD80 and some good DDR3 ram in the cupboard so I just need to get a CPU. My original plan was to get the i7 860 but prices seem have to increased from £205 to around £225 where was the i5 750 seem to be roughly the same. I also don't want to spend too much right now so the i5 seems to be the better choice. This right?
Go for the i5, arguably the best £: performance of all the quads at the minute!