was bored today.........

[Uncle Vinnie]

I had nothing to do all day (for once) I decided to see how good my CPU cooling fan was compared to the stock fan that came with the CPU.
I was happy with the fan since day one, however I had no numbers to compare it with, at the same time I did some 3DMark06, and CPU Mark 2.1 test to see what my gains were when overclocking.
Video card is a Ati 1900XTX OC to 688/792
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600 2.4Ghz
CPU Fan: Thermaltake Blue Orb II
Room temp. was 23C

Here are some numbers:
Stock CPU/fan@2.4Ghz
Idle: 33C____load: 55C

CPU@2.4Ghz, with Blue Orb Fan
Idle: 31C____load: 44C_____3DMark06: 5808______CPU Mark 2.1: 5261


CPU@2.5Ghz, with Blue Orb Fan
Idle: 31C____load: 45C_____3DMark06: 6067______CPU Mark 2.1: 5277


CPU@2.6Ghz, with Blue Orb Fan
Idle: 31C____load: 46C_____3DMark06: 6121______CPU Mark 2.1: 5330


CPU@2.7Ghz, with Blue Orb Fan
Idle: 33C____load: 49C_____3DMark06: 6165______CPU Mark 2.1: 5388


CPU@2.8Ghz, with Blue Orb Fan
Idle: 34C____load: 56C_____3DMark06: 6222______CPU Mark 2.1: 5452


I'm very impressed and happy with the Thermaltake Blue Orb II fan, it not only reduce the stock CPU temp at load by 11C, and it took me to OC the CPU to 2.8Ghz to be at the same temp as the stock cooler.
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[panchoman]

i love my blue orb!! but i want the blue orb FX now :

 

[Basard]

I love the fan on those things man.... I'm thinking of putting the OCZ vendetta on my christmas, but its a toss up between that and the ac freezer64, but the OCZ comes with 775 bracket too... so if things take a turn for the worst, I'll still have a cooler for intel chips.

What core is your 4600, and its voltages and all that stuff? I'm running my brisbane chip pretty high on stock cooling (see specs) even when its about 80 degrees in my apartment, it doesnt break 60c on stress tests. I just got the new motherboard though, I was clinging to my agp card with an am2 motherboard for as long as I could. But now I have the tforce550 motherboard and a 7950gt graphics card. One of these days ill run some benchmarks on it, I have 3dmark downloading right now. I had it set at 265*4 HT, but seemed a little too hot so I dropped it down a lil, I just need to get that cpu cooler for xmas and ill be set for 3.1ghz or more even more, mua haha.

Oh yeah, also, I notices when I noticed how junky the origional thermal paste was that came with my heatsink when I switched out the mobo. After about 3 months of use it was all cakey and hard. So I put on this old tube of arctic silver ceramique paste on there, and the cpu seemed to drop about 5c.... Not sure if it was just the paste or the mobo, but I know the old paste was just junk.

It seems like you should be able to get a little more out of it though... if I can stay up long enough for this 3dmark to finish downloading, ill run a quick bench and post is up here.