It was 113 euros, only one maker does that size, but it's not that bad price considering the surface area.
I'd say that's not a bad price at all, that's a biiig radiator! Crikey... Of course, you can't manage with a radiator alone; you need more pieces to make the whole thing work and costs quickly add up. Still, that's a beastly rad. I want one myself!
When I got the last missing pieces for my build, I just put thermal paste in to the CPU and didn't bother to look the underside of the block anymore.
That's what I figured had to have happened...
I also have a pretty substantial history messing up with installing things. I once broke pins in Pentium 4 2.66Ghz chip when I tried to install it forcefully in incorrect position and the pins hit plastic.
Ooowwwchhh! Not sure how you managed that, considering the CPU just drops right in if you simply align the pins correctly.
I have on the other hand managed to bend a few of the tiny little metal finger contacts in a LGA socket, can't remember the pin count. Those for the Core2 Duo generation of CPUs. I was cleaning off old thermal interface material - those rubbery pads that come on some coolers - from my monstrous Dell XPS box when the tissue paper I was using strayed and got caught in the contacts of the socket. Shit they're small! It's really hard to see with the naked eye which way they're bent if you don't have a jeweler's loupe or magnifying glass or something like that, which I didn't of course.
Managed to get 'em poked back down again, and none of them broke, thankfully. Those Dells use custom mobos of course that cost a ton to replace. The computer still worked when I turned it back on.
I also once tried to change spark plugs to my car, but I didn't know what they looked like and I first removed a fuel injector head < ... >
Can you top that?
Hell, no.
I can't!
I can't fix cars, and I wouldn't even try, but I do know what a spark plug looks like at least. I bet you do now, too!
I did some OC'ing yesterday. I managed to get a 3Dmark11 run with the CPU at 5.1Ghz
Holy crap, that's not a typo? 5.1??? What kind of volts you gotta torture the CPU with to get it way up there?
The GPU is really quite efficient and runs cool, it's hard to get it up to 40c. The CPU will get much hotter under these OC'd volts.
Hummm... Your OC CPU temps really do look quite high, much higher than I usually see quoted with water cooling. Is your CPU block a good one?
I suppose the CPU heatspreader might be a limiting factor here, the GPU is direct contact on its block after all.
The ambient temperature in my small apartment does rise quite a lot due to computer, receiver and projector being quite close to each other.
You have a projector? Ugh, that's nothing but a furnace in disguise, especially now during the summers. And us Euros rarely have air condition either. Ambient temps is the bane for me summertime, I can hit 30C indoors after a long gaming session during the hottest part of the summer.
The GPU boost function continues to act a bit weird for me. It changed the clock steppings mid test and some other weird stuff.
I believe you can turn boost off completely and just run at the boost setting all the time (or whatever you clock it to), isn't that so?
Anyway, nice setup! Good luck for the future, and don't fry any of your components please!
