X79 and/or rampage IV OC'ing thread for those of us still left....

[Kanan]

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Nice, add one more pic with the side panel off, so I can see the inner stuff (+ GPU).

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Its so cold in my room, my 3930k is idling between 25-28'c

 

[Kanan]

Its so cold in my room, my 3930k is idling between 25-28'c

I want watercooling as well, especially for some 5GHz+ benchmarks, but can't afford it atm because it's just luxury and fiddling around.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I want watercooling as well, especially for some 5GHz+ benchmarks, but can't afford it atm because it's just luxury and fiddling around.

add a 3rd fan to your D-14? Ive heard that the D-15 comes very close to Corsair H100 temps

 

[Kanan]

add a 3rd fan to your D-14? Ive heard that the D-15 comes very close to Corsair H100 temps

It's of no use, even the 2nd fan doesn't help much. I could exchange the fans with stronger ones, but I don't want the noise involved with it. D15 comes close, but not on high OC. Water is still way better. But that said, I think my TIM could be shit atm, I need to buy a new one (any recommendations?) and reapply I guess. Atm my temps are at 78°C tops, playing BF1 at 4.5 GHz at 1.365 V, CPU usage is at 50% (6 cores used 100%, HTT maybe used by background tasks).

 

[FreedomEclipse]

It's of no use, even the 2nd fan doesn't help much. I could exchange the fans with stronger ones, but I don't want the noise involved with it. D15 comes close, but not on high OC. Water is still way better. But that said, I think my TIM could be shit atm, I need to buy a new one (any recommendations?) and reapply I guess. Atm my temps are at 78°C tops, playing BF1 at 4.5 GHz at 1.365 V, CPU usage is at 50% (6 cores used 100%, HTT maybe used by background tasks).

Depends on your budget -- I currently use Prolimatech PK-3 but Kryonaut by Thermal Grizzly seems all the rage atm.

my idle temp is only low because its below 10'c in my room currently. Otherwise it would be around 32-38'c idle.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Yeah, I probably will add a couple fans to the side tinker with arrangement a little so I'll take a picture with it on and lights on etc, oddly since moving to new case that whole 00 reboot thing went away. So even besides the power switch being messed up there may have been other electrical issues with the case causing the weird reboot on every cold start. So anyway seems to work as it should. When I'm in any position and after Ryzen etc maybe that 1680v2 will become reasonable and I can plunk it in and see what it can do with good cooling.

 

[Kanan]

Depends on your budget -- I currently use Prolimatech PK-3 but Kryonaut by Thermal Grizzly seems all the rage atm.

my idle temp is only low because its below 10'c in my room currently. Otherwise it would be around 32-38'c idle.

Thanks. What's your temp without open windows or around 20°C when you're playing a demanding game like BF1?

Yeah, I probably will add a couple fans to the side tinker with arrangement a little so I'll take a picture with it on and lights on etc, oddly since moving to new case that whole 00 reboot thing went away. So even besides the power switch being messed up there may have been other electrical issues with the case causing the weird reboot on every cold start. So anyway seems to work as it should. When I'm in any position and after Ryzen etc maybe that 1680v2 will become reasonable and I can plunk it in and see what it can do with good cooling.

Nice. Yeah I hope that as well, but I can wait for it a few years anyway, not that 8 core's are of any use in todays games anyway.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Thanks. What's your temp without open windows or around 20°C when you're playing a demanding game like BF1?

Nice. Yeah I hope that as well, but I can wait for it a few years anyway, not that 8 core's are of any use in todays games anyway.

I have no open windows currently. Otherwise it would be -1'c in my room. Temps wise i barely break 65'c in bf1

 

[Kanan]

I have no open windows currently. Otherwise it would be -1'c in my room. Temps wise i barely break 65'c in bf1

With normal ambient temperatures or at 10°C? Yeah it's even colder in germany right now at about -5 to -10 last night.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

With normal ambient temperatures or at 10°C? Yeah it's even colder in germany right now at about -5 to -10 last night.

Even with normal ambient temps. Normal here is around 15-18'c even then temps still stay under 65'c. This Corsair H105 is incredibly potent as the radiator is thicker then all the others they've released since. apart from the H80i but thats a 120mm rad. I even had that H80i cooling my 3930k in the early days before i upgraded to the H105.

H80i could easily handle my 3930k @4.6 though temps would get closer to 70'c so there

 

[Kanan]

Even with normal ambient temps. Normal here is around 15-18'c even then temps still stay under 65'c. This Corsair H105 is incredibly potent as the radiator is thicker then all the others they've released since. apart from the H80i but thats a 120mm rad

Very nice, I'll buy a Corsair watercooler if I'm cool again money wise. That just reinforced my thoughts.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Very nice, I'll buy a Corsair watercooler if I'm cool again money wise. That just reinforced my thoughts.

H115 is pretty good if you got the space. Only down side is there arent that many Static Pressure orientated 140mm fans available if you want to upgrade but on a side note. I hear Corsairs Mag lev fans are pretty decent noise wise so long as you keep them around 1200-1400rpm and they still move a fair amount of air.

 

[Kanan]

H115 is pretty good if you got the space. Only down side is there arent that many Static Pressure orientated 140mm fans available if you want to upgrade but on a side note. I hear Corsairs Mag lev fans are pretty decent noise wise so long as you keep them around 1200-1400rpm and they still move a fair amount of air.

I still have a free place at the bottom of my case for up to 360mm rads. Thanks for the tips, most appreciated.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

H115 is pretty good if you got the space. Only down side is there arent that many Static Pressure orientated 140mm fans available if you want to upgrade but on a side note. I hear Corsairs Mag lev fans are pretty decent noise wise so long as you keep them around 1200-1400rpm and they still move a fair amount of air.

Well I don't have the 115 but I have a close equivalent in the 110i extreme by corsair, not even sure there is much if any difference between the two. Both are 280 mm AIO's not sure if pump or rad or much of anything is different...not sure what the static pressure on the fans I have are but they are 140 mm x 38mm so without even looking at specs knowing they push ton of air I'll be the static pressure is very high.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835220056

looking at the specs and how they are advertised they brag about the pressure/cfm etc which isn't surprising 175 cfm is a lot for a 140 mm fan and it doesn't scream like the delta 120 mm ones do even full blast. I have 2 of these on my h110i and highest temp I ever saw was 78 degrees which was since I reinstalled it I don't think I did great job with paste spreading etc I'm going to have to check it and see how good the contact etc is. Anyway even that for a 3960x @ 4.6 ghz and 1.4 volts with high volts on Vccsa and Pll voltages for memory etc with HT enabled I think is near as good as it gets for intelburntest with corsair AIO as specced.

I still have a free place at the bottom of my case for up to 360mm rads. Thanks for the tips, most appreciated
Kanan said: ↑
Very nice, I'll buy a Corsair watercooler if I'm cool again money wise. That just reinforced my thoughts.
.

And I'll reinforce them with my experience this is my first ever AIO and even with 3 fans on my D14 as you were mentioning Kanan I can tell you this CPU just pushed it beyond what it wanted to cool...was struggling to keep it under 80-81 celcius with any stress at 4.5-4.6 depending on voltages and how hard I was pushing memory...at any rate, I can tell you temp problem essentially is all but gone for my OC now with this unit. Old OC was barebones 1.36 volts or so and that was causing 80 C readings now even newly applied with 1.4 volts and same CPU speed I saw it hit 78 and was disappointed lol. It really is night and day, I had 3 high cfm fans on the D14 too, 80-140 cfm. Didn't try it with the silverstone fans which I'm sure would have shaved a bit off but no way that would account for the big difference I'm getting with the AIO.
Nice, can only imagine how a 360mm rad would perform.

 

[Kanan]

Well I don't have the 115 but I have a close equivalent in the 110i extreme by corsair, not even sure there is much if any difference between the two. Both are 280 mm AIO's not sure if pump or rad or much of anything is different...not sure what the static pressure on the fans I have are but they are 140 mm x 38mm so without even looking at specs knowing they push ton of air I'll be the static pressure is very high.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835220056

looking at the specs and how they are advertised they brag about the pressure/cfm etc which isn't surprising 175 cfm is a lot for a 140 mm fan and it doesn't scream like the delta 120 mm ones do even full blast. I have 2 of these on my h110i and highest temp I ever saw was 78 degrees which was since I reinstalled it I don't think I did great job with paste spreading etc I'm going to have to check it and see how good the contact etc is. Anyway even that for a 3960x @ 4.6 ghz and 1.4 volts with high volts on Vccsa and Pll voltages for memory etc with HT enabled I think is near as good as it gets for intelburntest with corsair AIO as specced.


And I'll reinforce them with my experience this is my first ever AIO and even with 3 fans on my D14 as you were mentioning Kanan I can tell you this CPU just pushed it beyond what it wanted to cool...was struggling to keep it under 80-81 celcius with any stress at 4.5-4.6 depending on voltages and how hard I was pushing memory...at any rate, I can tell you temp problem essentially is all but gone for my OC now with this unit. Old OC was barebones 1.36 volts or so and that was causing 80 C readings now even newly applied with 1.4 volts and same CPU speed I saw it hit 78 and was disappointed lol. It really is night and day, I had 3 high cfm fans on the D14 too, 80-140 cfm. Didn't try it with the silverstone fans which I'm sure would have shaved a bit off but no way that would account for the big difference I'm getting with the AIO.
Nice, can only imagine how a 360mm rad would perform.

I think at this moment I'd go for a 280mm like you, I don't need to overkill things, I'm not a extreme user anyway. I just want good high clocks (not too high) with nice temps. Atm it's limiting me to 4.5ghz because I don't like the temps involved with going 4.8ghz. 5ghz wasn't possible due to cpu shutting down when hitting the temp threshold, so I could for the first time run a proper bench if I change to watercooling I guess. The cpu is maybe even good for more, I realised it's a very good binned chip when I got it last year.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I dont really think ive ever tried pushing to 4.8Ghz. It would probably take too much voltage on my chip. I dont need that much power anyway, games run absolutely fine.

 

[Kanan]

I dont really think ive ever tried pushing to 4.8Ghz. It would probably take too much voltage on my chip. I dont need that much power anyway, games run absolutely fine.

Same here, atm it's fine but someday the cpu maybe too slow and I need the maximum I can get, also fun for experimenting. Generally I don't like the extreme high power consumption involved with it either. I had over 1.39v for 4.8 via auto voltage, I wasn't able to manually set it stable although didn't tried much. Atm it sucks about 200w when fully utilised via blender that's already a lot.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Just decided to switch out the 'Darkside' Gentle typhoons off my rad for some Fractal Design Venturi HP-12 as one of the fans had developed a bit of a rattle for some reason....

While the fan looks very good on paper. Ive already discovered a few issues with it which i find unbearable. First up is the motor emits a really quiet but audible high pitched whine which i find extremely annoying. Secondly, the fan RPM of 1800 is actually 1650.

I shall be emailing their support about this. I might just switch back to using the EK Vardar fans i had before the Nidec 'Darkside' GT's

 

[Kanan]

I hate that quiet high pitched wine as well, i switched 3 fans because of that, they were just emitting the noise when throttled down to 1300rpm. I'm glad the fans that came with Carbide 600C are nice at the range I use at 600 to 1200rpm, never any annoying noises just the usual windy noise that you'd expect anyway.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Yeah, whines/grinding etc are the worst, the fans I listed earlier are "whooshers" at full throttle simply due to the large volume of air they move but I don't really mind it all that much. ATM I kinda just plugged them in wherever so I will have to plug them in where I can play with RPM's and see what fans are making what noises...but guaranteed with 3 of those in here most of noise I hear is them the rest on case are far lower cfm/rpm etc. I've heard of the typhoon line of fans etc but admittedly at some point I gave up on a quiet PC and basically got the highest cfm fans I could stand with lower 40's for db as sound limit...they have fans in the 50's and even 60's when you get to the screamer deltas but I can't imagine those on a pc you sit right next to for any length of time, that must literally be ear piercing.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Actually on second thoughts... I take it all back. Either ive gotten used to the high pitched motor noise or its just completely stopped. I've set a custom fan curve in Asus Ai Suite and right now the fans are spinning at just over 1100rpm and I cant hear them at all. CPU is idling at 35'c while ambient temp has risen to 12'c as ive got my windows and door closed (still not turned heating on!!) Could be a bit lower but my pc isnt idling atm.

The motor on the Corsair AF140 fans at the front of my case are louder then these HP-12's.

The only real fly in the ointment now is if one or both of these HP-12 fans die as Fractal have always had reliability issues with their standard line of case fans. Just over €16.20/$17.33(USD) each which puts them around the same price as EK Vardar fans and Vardar's dont come with come with vibration dampening rubber corners or fluid dynamic bearings.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Actually on second thoughts... I take it all back. Either ive gotten used to the high pitched motor noise or its just completely stopped. I've set a custom fan curve in Asus Ai Suite and right now the fans are spinning at just over 1100rpm and I cant hear them at all. CPU is idling at 35'c while ambient temp has risen to 12'c as ive got my windows and door closed (still not turned heating on!!) Could be a bit lower but my pc isnt idling atm.

The motor on the Corsair AF140 fans at the front of my case are louder then these HP-12's.

The only real fly in the ointment now is if one or both of these HP-12 fans die as Fractal have always had reliability issues with their standard line of case fans. Just over €16.20/$17.33(USD) each which puts them around the same price as EK Vardar fans and Vardar's dont come with come with vibration dampening rubber corners or fluid dynamic bearings.

Well that's good. Admittedly I'd have to look up all the fans you've mentioned I don't know anything about them per se....so do you have a h105 as a cooler? It says that in your profile just wondered. I actually have the corsair 140mm fans that came with my h110i that I am not using but am currently looking to install on side of case for additional cooling, not even sure the model off hand may be one of the fans you mentioned.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Well that's good. Admittedly I'd have to look up all the fans you've mentioned I don't know anything about them per se....so do you have a h105 as a cooler? It says that in your profile just wondered. I actually have the corsair 140mm fans that came with my h110i that I am not using but am currently looking to install on side of case for additional cooling, not even sure the model off hand may be one of the fans you mentioned.

Fractal make a 140mm version as well. Im sure they would be a definite upgrade to the stock Corsair fans. Googling around some it seems Corsair use a Rifle bearing on their 140mm SP fans instead of what they called a 'hydraulic bearing' which is just corsairs marketing team trying to make their fans sound more fancy then they really are -- they are the same as Fluid Dynamic bearings.

Im enjoying the sound profile they make as well. They arent whiney like the 120mm Corsair SPs or EK Vardars that ive run on the same cooler. When Vardars ramp up they can be heard, though you can easily set your own fan curves. 1000rpm and im still idling at 30'c at 12.2'c ambient temp. Pretty good performance right there.

 

[dalekdukesboy]

Yeah, check out the specs on the fans I posted, they're beastly lol. I checked out fractal fans and they do the cfm differently and do cm3 or whatever measurement which is roughly double the amount CFM actually is so I saw one fan with 200 and realized it couldn't be that good at relatively low RPM. So yeah they are decent fans that push fair amount of air but yeah definitely better fans for moderately high airflow and relative silence...that doesn't describe the silverstone fan very well, it's a loud but inoffensive whoosher that moves a ton of air...here are the specs just in case you wondered.

SILVERSTONE
Model
FHP-141

140mm (120mm mounting holes)
Bearing Type
2 Ball

RPM
Q:500~1200rpm
P:500~2000rpm

Air Flow

42.8~171 CFM

Noise Level

13.4~43.5 dBA(Max)

Static Pressure

0.13 ~ 3.7 mm-H2O

Features
Features
High efficiency system thermal solution

High air pressure and less noise with giant-bladed design

Long-life dual ball bearing motor

Adjustable dual mode operation-"Power" mode (500~2000RPM) and "quiet" mode (500~1200RPM)

And currently they are all fore bore in my case at 2000 rpm so 150-170 cfm from what I heard reveiwer quote and 43.5 dba or slightly less which for 3.7mm pressure is very efficient and relatively quiet for all the air and pressure the fan is creating.