Thermaltake Frio testing - Page 4

Kal-EL · #1 10-11-2011

56c max temps at any given load? Cooler than my old QX6700, lol.

Bones · #2 10-12-2011

I'm glad what I did stirred up some conversation on the subject.

I'm also hoping it proved to be useful info as well. I knew the pics I took would show a thing or two about it at least and the way I ran the tests would probrably give some good comparative info to the cooler's overall thermal capacity.
Only thing I didn't do was to try an extended test with something like OCCT - The OCCT test ran with all six cores going would be the ultimate test for the cooler but I didn't want to risk the chip that way. Just got the CHV back and working and I kinda want to keep it that way for awhile at least since the MSI took a dump.

Kal-EL · #3 10-12-2011

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Originally Posted by Bones

I'm glad what I did stirred up some conversation on the subject.

Yeah, its been like a morticians office around here lately

Bones · #4 10-14-2011

Got my hands on a E8400 yesterday and will set it up for some testing with that chip. If the board can handle it (ASRock P43DE3), I'll see how high it can go with some testing done with it as well.

Bones · #5 10-15-2011

Set it up and did a run like the others with it.
Just as easy to setup with the 775 as it was with the AM3+ and the installation was a snap.

With the 775's equal spacing of the cooler mounting holes, I was able to turn it any way I wanted to but did it so that I could use all four RAM slots with any RAM sticks I wanted to use, plus with the cooler being as close to the sticks as it was, it actually gave a cooling effect to the sticks.
One thing I did note is again with the cooler's massive overhang it did sit really close to the board's NB cooler and it was a little trouble to get the 8-pin and CPU fan connectors hooked up but wasn't too much of a prob to do.

Since this board isn't a great OC'er I coudn't really push the CPU hard like I wanted but the temps it showed during the run at least showed it as being capable - I mean if it can keep a Thuban with six cores cool enough it should have no problem with a dual core, provided it doesn't run into a thermal spike due to excessive CPU voltages.