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« Reply #30 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 18:43:20 » |
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Tried another PSU and a different cable. Power socket on the wall is known to be working, tried my monitor on it and it's fine.
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« Reply #31 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 18:43:41 » |
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What chip and mobo are you using Sam? The 775 dual core chip can handle power surges easily and still boot but mobos are much more fickle and will fry at the drop of a hat. AMD are more liable to burn the chip than the mobo in my experience. Worst case senario...both gone..not good  |
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« Reply #32 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 18:59:06 » |
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the only fan i can here in my machine is my graphics card. it's noisy as hell which is another reason i'm upgrading.
my other two fans are Arctic Cooler & Coolermaster. You could also include my Freezer Pro too. they are all silent.
I'm currently searching for a 120mm x 15mm fan for my case. There is room for a 120mm fan where my 80mm Arctic Cooler is yet the amount of air being shifted is on par with a kittens fart.
A 25mm wide fan wont do as my HD is sat directly in front of it and the fan encroaches by at least 5mm.
I'm also thinking of getting a better Midi Tower case for better air flow etc. Mine's currently a Cooler Master Elite 330.
A little tip Martin....if you are going to use overclocking then DO NOT use the Arctic Freezer Pro 7...its designed for volume of air/sound volume and is not a good overclocking heat sink, I know this from experience! I had one and running my E6750 at 3.8ghz it was running at 80 degrees...far too hot for a processor, I swapped for Sycthe Mine....twice the price but twice the efficiency! Just popped on a couple of Akasa Vortexx Neos on my 8800GT's....wow what a difference...playing Crysis it has cooled them down by 30 degrees! |
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« Reply #33 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 19:06:46 » |
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A little tip Martin....if you are going to use overclocking then DO NOT use the Arctic Freezer Pro 7...its designed for volume of air/sound volume and is not a good overclocking heat sink, I know this from experience! I had one and running my E6750 at 3.8ghz it was running at 80 degrees...far too hot for a processor, I swapped for Sycthe Mine....twice the price but twice the efficiency!
Just popped on a couple of Akasa Vortexx Neos on my 8800GT's....wow what a difference...playing Crysis it has cooled them down by 30 degrees!
Sounds like you had a dodgy one, not one review I have read has said a bad thing about that heatsink. I'm currently running an E6400 @ 3Ghz with the dustiest AC Freezer Pro ever and it doesn't get hotter than 50 degrees under full load. |
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« Reply #34 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 19:07:59 » |
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What chip and mobo are you using Sam? The 775 dual core chip can handle power surges easily and still boot but mobos are much more fickle and will fry at the drop of a hat. AMD are more liable to burn the chip than the mobo in my experience. Worst case senario...both gone..not good It's a 775 dual core, so hopefully I can rule out the chip then. If I get a new mobo I'll have to re-format my HDD won't I? |
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« Reply #35 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 19:13:34 » |
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It ran my E6750 at 3.4ghz going to around 55 degrees but as soon as I added votage it got far too warm, it needed 1.45v to get it stable and as soon as you got near the max it went haywire heat wise, but I cant rule out the possibility of a slightly flawed one.
But the new Sycthe Mine is about 10 degrees cooler on full power with full overvolting, but that is running at 4ghz now stable as a rock.
But the Freezer Pro is no designed for huge overclocking, its more for quietness of the pc IMO.
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« Reply #36 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 19:14:55 » |
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It's a 775 dual core, so hopefully I can rule out the chip then.
If I get a new mobo I'll have to re-format my HDD won't I?
If you get a same mobo then no need at all for reformat, if you go for one with the same chipset then no you wont need to reformat either, but with a whole new mobo and chipset....which is probably the best option...then 90% yes you will need to reformat. |
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« Reply #37 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 19:17:27 » |
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The 775 chip can handle a lot of shit though its reknown for it, but if you know anyone that has one then try a spare first, even if its a really slow crap one like an E2100 or even a socket 775 Intel Celery series which are about £20 brand new.
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« Reply #38 on: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 21:23:16 » |
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Cheers for the advice. My mobo is only £25 brand new now so I might just buy a new one as it seems to be the culprit.
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« Reply #39 on: Friday, August 1, 2008, 10:19:58 » |
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I've found a way to jump the PSU to see if it'll power on without the mobo so I'm going to give that a bash when I get home tonight. If that works then I can definitely rule the PSU out and more or less rule the CPU out.
Anyone got any experience of Foxconn or ASRock mobos?
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« Reply #40 on: Friday, August 1, 2008, 10:41:25 » |
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And has anyone got a non-OEM copy of XP I can borrow? My XP cd is OEM branded so won't work with a new mobo.
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« Reply #41 on: Friday, August 1, 2008, 11:05:12 » |
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I can burn you a real copy of XP if you have a license key.
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« Reply #42 on: Friday, August 1, 2008, 11:06:50 » |
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A little tip Martin....if you are going to use overclocking then DO NOT use the Arctic Freezer Pro 7...its designed for volume of air/sound volume and is not a good overclocking heat sink, I know this from experience! I had one and running my E6750 at 3.8ghz it was running at 80 degrees...far too hot for a processor, I swapped for Sycthe Mine....twice the price but twice the efficiency!
Just popped on a couple of Akasa Vortexx Neos on my 8800GT's....wow what a difference...playing Crysis it has cooled them down by 30 degrees!
honestly? I have upped my cpu to 3.8ghz @ 1.385v last night and ran Orthos for over an hour to stress test it. Turned on RealTemps and it was sat at just under 50deg. Also looked in the bios and that was saying similar temps too. As for the Vortex Neo i'm going to order one of those when i get my 4870 next month. Apparently (like you say) it dropps the temps down by a good 30deg |
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« Reply #43 on: Friday, August 1, 2008, 11:21:47 » |
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having a look at the Scythe Mine JJ it looks pretty meaty.
Question though! Which direction does the heatsinc sit?
My freezer Pro sits so that the air flow is directed towards the exhaust fan at the back of the case. The Scythe Mine looks like it will have to be aiming upwards towards to PSU?
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« Reply #44 on: Friday, August 1, 2008, 11:30:23 » |
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I can burn you a real copy of XP if you have a license key.
Yeah I've got a key. Cheers Si! |
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