E7400 Overclocking/ Watercooling

[MitchellsMods]

Hey hey guys and girlies

Possibly should have joined the forum ages ago, I dont know why I never got around too it lol.

Basically; I've been running an Intel 775 E7400 for the past 2 years?

I've got it running at 4.0Ghz @ 1.42 Volts in an Asus P5N-D Motherboard with an Asus Silent Knight II.

When Im gaming on BFBC2, COD MW3, Metro 2033, Crysis 2, Blah blah blah and when I was testing stability with Prime95 I was getting temperatures in the mid 50's for both the cores... Usually 54/53 for both cores and a little bit hotter when Ive been gaming for a couple of hours

I recently bought a Black Ice Stealth 240 and an EK Extreme Waterblock on eBay for 20 quid.. Ive also got that coupled with an MPC655 from a mate.

Surely a 240MM Radiator will be able to cool my E7400 just as effectively as my Asus Silent Knight II?

Also, I really wanna watercool my GTX460's, what sort of radiator am I looking at to keep a closed loop? So I've got my CPU - GPU - GPU?

A 360MM Radiator AND the 240MM Radiator as well? Or am I really under estimating watercooling?

Cheers guys.

This is my first watercooling setup, please be gentle, haha

 

[marsey99]

1 360 and 1 240 should be enough for that setup yea mate, tbh i think if they are thicker rads that would cool hotter quad or hex core cpu and 2 hotter gpu.

the 240 alone i would think is going to beat that asus cooler as iirc it was more a quiet cooler than performance cooler and the 45nm ic in that e74 isnt the hottest chip in the world either. i could run my wolfdale cpu passive under this ifx14 for eg you know.

other thought, might get better replies in the wc section as this is the oc section

 

[Mrboxfacetramp]

Hey hey guys and girlies

Possibly should have joined the forum ages ago, I dont know why I never got around too it lol.

Basically; I've been running an Intel 775 E7400 for the past 2 years?

I've got it running at 4.0Ghz @ 1.42 Volts in an Asus P5N-D Motherboard with an Asus Silent Knight II.

When Im gaming on BFBC2, COD MW3, Metro 2033, Crysis 2, Blah blah blah and when I was testing stability with Prime95 I was getting temperatures in the mid 50's for both the cores... Usually 54/53 for both cores and a little bit hotter when Ive been gaming for a couple of hours

I recently bought a Black Ice Stealth 240 and an EK Extreme Waterblock on eBay for 20 quid.. Ive also got that coupled with an MPC655 from a mate.

Surely a 240MM Radiator will be able to cool my E7400 just as effectively as my Asus Silent Knight II?

Also, I really wanna watercool my GTX460's, what sort of radiator am I looking at to keep a closed loop? So I've got my CPU - GPU - GPU?

A 360MM Radiator AND the 240MM Radiator as well? Or am I really under estimating watercooling?

Cheers guys.

This is my first watercooling setup, please be gentle, haha

I would go with the 240mm and 360mm radiator setup to cool both the 2 460's and the CPU. The Watercooling setup will cool a lot better than the heat sink you've got now.

 

[f0x.]

a 240 and a 360 would be the ticket mate, silence and overclocking headroom.

 

[Mrboxfacetramp]

So you have more than one suggestion for a 360 and a 240..

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

Totally off topic, but how are you able to run a E7400 with 460"s" (2) without bottleneck?

 

[marsey99]

Totally off topic, but how are you able to run a E7400 with 460"s" (2) without bottleneck?

by running it at 4ghz?

because its not amd?

fun and games aside he cant is the only answer but clocking will relieve it as much as pos.

also the term is far, far over used. yes a faster cpu would get more out of that gpu setup but not a massive amount in real world use and we could say that about everybody not running a i5 or i7 and even then someone will have a faster 1 which would be better.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

by running it at 4ghz?

because its not amd?

fun and games aside he cant is the only answer but clocking will relieve it as much as pos.

also the term is far, far over used. yes a faster cpu would get more out of that gpu setup but not a massive amount in real world use and we could say that about everybody not running a i5 or i7 and even then someone will have a faster 1 which would be better.

I know what bottle necking is and I did not over use it. Most games use 4 cores and more now, and he has a dual core with dual 460s. Even with 4ghz I cant see no bottle necking going on here. Not to mention it would be a colossal waist of money to watercool OPs current rig. Better investment would be something that was not made almost 5 years ago. Why the flying hell would you invest hundreds of $$$ in watercooling a dual core cpu now a days?! Its like getting an atom processor with an 8400gs and wanting to watercool it.