[maverick]

Geeez...after browsing a different thread i came across Cathar's temps...those are some amazing temps!!!

I know that the Iwaki Pump is one hell of a pump, but i'm also running a barton 2500 and my Load temps are about 63C (stable)!! I'm running a water cooling setup that my friend (maxim-who posts on this board) and i created. I'm running my barton at 2370 @ 2.1 volts. Cathar, how the hell are you gettin a load of only 32.5? I see that your ambient is only 21C but seeing as how mine is about 28C i can't imagine that even with all those parts in your system that those are enough to have a 30 degree difference...i may be underestimating the efficiency of that pump and block and radiator setup...am i?

My main question/comment is that after calculating my C/W of about 0.25 (which isn't awful) is it just that the Bartons are huge heat producers or do i have some serious flaws somewhere in my setup? Do the steppings on the barton have any issues w/ regards to heat produced? Next time i take the block off, i will get my stepping ( i keep forgetting! ) and the rest of my setup is below in the sig.

By no means am i even remotely saying that mine SHOULD be close to Cathar's, obviously he has superior compnents and whatnot, but i think 30C is a very large gap between the two setups considering we are both running Bartons and he is about 400 mhz faster than me (which should slightly even the playing field since he would/should be producing more heat?)

Design of system below:

Pump -> Heater Core (cooled by high flow fan) -> Block -> Fish Tank -> Pump -> etc, etc