Hey there!
This picture shows my cooling setup. I have it raised a little over an inch off the desk for more airflow and that lateral fan over the radiator to conduct traffic mostly because I bought it and wanted to use it. They sent me a probe sensor rather than the inline sensor I ordered but I made use of it by putting it on the outside of the tubing and under load it reads in the low mid 30s and 26 idle and my cpu reads 28C while idle. That is pretty much the case day by day although the load temperatures vary slightly during the day vs night (old house). The ram cooler on there is mostly just for some direct airflow to redirect any stuck heat from the cpu and northbridge. The ram is now running its 2600MHz @ 1.67v and is not hot so not really useful otherwise but it makes the case look so cluttered so I am going to test it to see if the direct airflow helps and get rid of it if theres not at least a 2C difference.
Right now I am installing PCMark and 3DMark so I will get some nice burn ins hopefully. CPU is at 4.4GHz @1.248v stable and my 2 770s are at 1300MHz core 7600MHz memory never reaching above 40-45 under hours of load. These XSPC Razers work really well with these Kepler GPUs it seems. I got a Heaven score of 2083 if that sounds like a reasonable score for this setup? I will give more and better numbers once these benches install and are run.
For cooling. I considered a dual loop system but I got a raystorm package with the 2 d5 pumps and heard running dual loops can be good and sometimes not worth it. I seem to be getting nice temps on my GPUs and considdered delidding my CPU but if I have a 4.5 GHz chip I don't want to delid it just to prove I don't have a 4.7 GHz chip... well I do but it's not a good idea 😉 haha Let me know your thoughts and thanks for helping me out!
PS I used AS5 which has a burn in time... could this be part of the reason they may not be as low as hoped yet?
This picture shows my cooling setup. I have it raised a little over an inch off the desk for more airflow and that lateral fan over the radiator to conduct traffic mostly because I bought it and wanted to use it. They sent me a probe sensor rather than the inline sensor I ordered but I made use of it by putting it on the outside of the tubing and under load it reads in the low mid 30s and 26 idle and my cpu reads 28C while idle. That is pretty much the case day by day although the load temperatures vary slightly during the day vs night (old house). The ram cooler on there is mostly just for some direct airflow to redirect any stuck heat from the cpu and northbridge. The ram is now running its 2600MHz @ 1.67v and is not hot so not really useful otherwise but it makes the case look so cluttered so I am going to test it to see if the direct airflow helps and get rid of it if theres not at least a 2C difference.
Right now I am installing PCMark and 3DMark so I will get some nice burn ins hopefully. CPU is at 4.4GHz @1.248v stable and my 2 770s are at 1300MHz core 7600MHz memory never reaching above 40-45 under hours of load. These XSPC Razers work really well with these Kepler GPUs it seems. I got a Heaven score of 2083 if that sounds like a reasonable score for this setup? I will give more and better numbers once these benches install and are run.
For cooling. I considered a dual loop system but I got a raystorm package with the 2 d5 pumps and heard running dual loops can be good and sometimes not worth it. I seem to be getting nice temps on my GPUs and considdered delidding my CPU but if I have a 4.5 GHz chip I don't want to delid it just to prove I don't have a 4.7 GHz chip... well I do but it's not a good idea 😉 haha Let me know your thoughts and thanks for helping me out!
PS I used AS5 which has a burn in time... could this be part of the reason they may not be as low as hoped yet?
Here are 3 firestrike normal mode scores and in the name of each you can see the overclockings. I am gonna try it with 4.6 now
