GhostGT
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Q6600.
Tuniq Tower.
Great Airflow throughout case.
What do you guys think my only problem is right now?
Ambient Air Temperatures!
The Tuniq Tower is doing a great job at keeping things cool during the day, but at night, when the whole house is being heated, my lights are on and my window is closed, the temperature in my room can get hot. As in, 27-29*C hot. And I KNOW that has a profound effect on what I can do as far as overclocking goes.
Here's what I'm currently at:
@ 2800MHz, computer ran beautifully with 1.2125V Vcore.
@ 3000MHz, computer ran beautifully with 1.2750V Vcore.
@ 3200MHz, computer requires somewhere around 1.3500 Vcore, and is not stable.
At 3200Mhz, I raised the VCore to 1.3500V to see if it would become any more stable (P95 kept causing blue screen hangs and random restarts, and sometimes even errors, too.) So I raised it to 1.3500V, and not only were my temperatures hovering around 63-64*C (CoreTemp, might be 4-5* too high, hmm), but it also crashed and I got a BSOD dump/restart after starting firefox while the test was running.
I've returned the computer to 3000MHz and am running fine. I'll leave P95 on overnight to test the stability again, but I'm sorta bummed that I'm not able to use my Tuniq to its full potential because of my room temperatures.
I want to hear your thoughts/advice.
Chris
Tuniq Tower.
Great Airflow throughout case.
What do you guys think my only problem is right now?
Ambient Air Temperatures!
The Tuniq Tower is doing a great job at keeping things cool during the day, but at night, when the whole house is being heated, my lights are on and my window is closed, the temperature in my room can get hot. As in, 27-29*C hot. And I KNOW that has a profound effect on what I can do as far as overclocking goes.
Here's what I'm currently at:
@ 2800MHz, computer ran beautifully with 1.2125V Vcore.
@ 3000MHz, computer ran beautifully with 1.2750V Vcore.
@ 3200MHz, computer requires somewhere around 1.3500 Vcore, and is not stable.
At 3200Mhz, I raised the VCore to 1.3500V to see if it would become any more stable (P95 kept causing blue screen hangs and random restarts, and sometimes even errors, too.) So I raised it to 1.3500V, and not only were my temperatures hovering around 63-64*C (CoreTemp, might be 4-5* too high, hmm), but it also crashed and I got a BSOD dump/restart after starting firefox while the test was running.
I've returned the computer to 3000MHz and am running fine. I'll leave P95 on overnight to test the stability again, but I'm sorta bummed that I'm not able to use my Tuniq to its full potential because of my room temperatures.
I want to hear your thoughts/advice.
Chris