Doctor Feelgood
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 Posted: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:54:11 Post Subject: |
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I decided to move this card into my main rig... A quad core 65W Xeon 3210 that I generally run overclocked to 2.66GHz (8x 333MHz, 1333MHz FSB) at 1.19V. The motherboard is a P5K Pro P35 chipset, with 8GB of DDR2 G.Skill 4-4-4-12 memory running at 888MHz. Cooler I had been using is a OCZ Vendetta 2 which keeps the load temperatures around 48C and idle temperatures around 37C with this setup.
With the Atomic card in, I saw some scary CPU temperatures initially, so I did some testing before leaving it. The chart labeled "Underclocked" below was with the CPU at 1.6GHZ (6x 266MHz, 1066MHz FSB) and 0.99V. Each core idled between 56-60C and load temperatures were between 69-75C! Pretty hot, but nothing compared to stock speed.
I returned the system to stock speeds and voltages, everything on auto: 2.13GHz (8x 266MHz, 1066MHz FSB) at 1.19V. See "Stock Speed" labeled chart below. 62-68C idle, and 87-98C load! I didn't let the load test run too long here, and I was glad I survived the minute or so it lasted!
I won't be trying an overclocked test!
While the GPU stays in the 40-50C range all the time, this really is a bad cooler for high end processors. It was acceptable on the E8400 used in the review, but just plain sad on this quad core Xeon! |
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