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Chrispy_ wrote:Back in the day, we used these to cool 70+W Socket-A Athlon processors in cases that had maybe only a couple of 80mm fans in total:
Krogoth wrote:You realize that modern CPUs have build-in thermal throttling
Krogoth wrote:You realize that modern CPUs have build-in thermal throttling which makes it very difficult to kill a CPU through running it? In the worse case, the CPU will throw out general fault errors and cause BSOD if throttling fails to keep it stable.
Chrispy_ wrote:Back in the day, we used these to cool 70+W Socket-A Athlon processors in cases that had maybe only a couple of 80mm fans in total:
flip-mode wrote:Don't tell anybody, but I'm using something very similar to that (except the fan is 80mm) to cool the Phenom II X4 955 that I second-handed to my dad. The most strenuous thing he does is probably watch the occasional youtube video...
DancinJack wrote:The real question here should be what brand of hard drives were they?
vargis14 wrote:Amazing is all I can say. Intel has had awesome chip saving features for a long time now but this is ummm did I say Amazing
flip-mode wrote:The TX3 does deserve some credit. It's a 92mm tower heatsink and it's quite excellent, lightweight, and clips to AMD's standard heatsink retention bracket and uses the standard Intel pin mount - no back plates. It's a quiet, fantastic cooler for stock clocks or light overclocking.
anotherengineer wrote:http://blog.reidreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/epic_fail.jpg
Chrispy_ wrote:LOL, I guess you're not overclocking your K-series then
I have run many a processor without a heatsink fan. Most cases these days have a lot of internal airflow - something to do with the fact that people might want to put a couple of 250W graphics cards in them.
The 3570K is only a 77W chip and 25% of it is IGP which you're probably not even using, and the TX3 has plenty of surface area backed up with heatpipes.
Back in the day, we used these to cool 70+W Socket-A Athlon processors in cases that had maybe only a couple of 80mm fans in total:
homerdog wrote:my 3770K.. runs pretty warm with the stock HSF. Of course I can't hear the CPU fan even at full load so maybe that's by design.
flip-mode wrote:The awesome part is obviously the Core i5 3570K. I've had this thing pegged at 100% for days at a time. This computer is on 24/7. Core i5 3570K doesn't care, it does what it is told to do!
sid1089 wrote:flip-mode wrote:The awesome part is obviously the Core i5 3570K. I've had this thing pegged at 100% for days at a time. This computer is on 24/7. Core i5 3570K doesn't care, it does what it is told to do!
No it doesn't. It was throttling down its clock all along. The 100% is calibrated against whatever the current clock speed is.
sid1089 wrote:flip-mode wrote:The awesome part is obviously the Core i5 3570K. I've had this thing pegged at 100% for days at a time. This computer is on 24/7. Core i5 3570K doesn't care, it does what it is told to do!
No it doesn't. It was throttling down its clock all along. The 100% is calibrated against whatever the current clock speed is.
DPete27 wrote:sid1089 wrote:flip-mode wrote:The awesome part is obviously the Core i5 3570K. I've had this thing pegged at 100% for days at a time. This computer is on 24/7. Core i5 3570K doesn't care, it does what it is told to do!
No it doesn't. It was throttling down its clock all along. The 100% is calibrated against whatever the current clock speed is.
While you're right that 100% utilization isn't dependent on clock speed, that doesn't mean the CPU temp was getting high enough to engage clock-throttling. You also missed the "Honey Badger" reference.
flip-mode wrote:[I have] no way of knowing - that the TX3 may have kept the CPU cool enough to prevent throttling even under full load.