Trying to get it stable above 4GHz, and hopefully stable enough to just keep it there. But this is also fun, fun with meddling ^_^ I also want to try and match my friend who has an almost identical setup to me 'cept he has an E8500.
Temps were a lot better back when I put this together in spring, but now it's the tail end of summer which gives me ambients about 5C extra. Anyway, giving averages for cores:
Load: Highest I've seen is 55c, running Prime95 (and Intel Burn Test but it only went to 53 with that)
Idle: In spring it was about 28-29, now it's 32-33.
Ambient: Not entirely sure (couldn't find a thermometer
) but I imagine between 25 and 30.
The biggest problem is with the NB chip, it gets way to hot, hot, hot. Here are a few pictures of the fans I added to the mobo to help cool it off.
I see; my XFX one came with a fan where you have one, the one which blows into the CPU HS. Unfortunately I don't think I can put one on the rear I/O.
I can take photos of my current BIOS settings, if that would help. Not easy to photo a CRT though