Hi, I'm from Portugal. I have been reading this forum for some time now, and am really curious about the tests mentioned in this thread. Anyway i'm a little confused about something...I have an Athlon XP-M 2500+ @2526Mhz (210.5x12) @1.87v in a A7N8X rev 1.04 with 2x256Mb TwinMos Winbond CH-5 @ 2.7v 2-3-3-11, all rock stable...till last week i used air cooling (Coolermaster Aero7+), and while in winter it gave me decent temps, now the summer has arrived, and since here in Portugal the temps have been 30ºC(86ºF)and above for the last few weeks, my temps went WAY up to like 43/44ºC (109/111ºF)idle for cpu, load i was afraid to check
...so this situation made up my mind and i went and bought a WC kit composed of:
- Innovatek HPPS 12v pump
- 1A-Cooling 5Z280V1 Radiator
- 1A-Cooling HV2 WB for cpu
- Aquacomputer TwinPlex rev 1.2 for northbridge
the complete kit (except for the chipset wb) can be seen at
this thread
The kit was really EASY to install...and it is all 10/8 piping(u can check a pic of mys sys
here)...So what did this change in terms of temps? they went down 15ºC!!now im at 29/30ºC (84/86ºF)idle and 36/37 full (96/98ºF) (cpuburn, prime95 only gets to 33/34ºC (91/93ºF). My room temp is about 26/27ºC (79/80ºF) (although im not sure this temps are accurate, but it IS damn hot) during the day. Now, my question is...are these temps bad? All the US-systems get THAT better performance than this? and i dont have a high-end "german/european" system, its more on the "medium" range...sorry for such a long post
